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Alicya Eyo (born 16 December 1975) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Denny Blood in the ITV prison drama series Bad Girls and Ruby Haswell in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.

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Alicya Eyo
Born	(1975-12-16) 16 December 1975 (age 46) Huyton, Merseyside, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1997–present
Website	alicyaeyo.net

Early life

Eyo was born on 16 December 1975 in Huyton, Merseyside. Her mother, Sue, is a jazz singer. She grew up in the Toxteth area of Liverpool.[1] Her love of drama started when she was nine, and she attended drama and dance classes every Saturday. When she was 14, she moved to London with her family. She trained at the Courtyard Theatre School.

Career

Early career

Eyo's first television appearance was in 1997, in Casualty, which was filmed earlier. She also made an appearance on Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and appeared in Gold the follow up drama series to Band Of Gold as a young prostitute involved with Yardie gangsters who come over to Bradfords red light district from Leeds to clear up the Lane. In 1999, Eyo appeared with Goldie in the David Bowie film Everybody Loves Sunshine known as B.U.S.T.E.D., internationally. She also starred in the movie G:MT - Greenwich Mean Time. However, Eyo's big break came in 1998 when she was offered the part of Denny Blood,[2] in Bad Girls.[3][4] The series was broadcast in June the following year when the UK viewing public first saw Eyo as Denny Blood in a pink PVC suit dancing to the N-Trance remix of Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees.

Bad Girls

At the end of the sixth series (in which Eyo did not appear), the character of Denny Blood was voted the sixth favourite inmate on Bad Girls: Most Wanted.[5] Denny's tragic upbringing, lead to the touching and tragic storylines with her mother, Jessie Devlin (played by Denise Black), and the relationship with stand-in mother Yvonne Atkins (Linda Henry). Blood also met the love of her life Shaz Wiley (Lindsey Fawcett), who died at the end of Series 4. Denny was devastated but found comfort in painting and was last seen being transferred to an open prison to serve the rest of her sentence. Just before Bad Girls was axed, the Bad Girls' creators were going to ask Eyo to reprise her role as Denny.[6]

During this time, Eyo also appeared in the film The Low Down, in an episode of Urban Gothic and in Tube Tales. Since leaving Bad Girls, Eyo appeared in Holby City twice, as two separate characters, and the BBC daytime drama Doctors. Eyo plays Gaynor Harvey in Shed Productions drama Bombshell. However, Bombshell still has not been shown in the UK, but has aired in New Zealand.

Theatre

Eyo has studied at the Court Theater Training Company and has been working professionally for 14 years. Eyo has also performed at various theatres including the Royal Court Theatre, Nottingham. She also performed in the critically acclaimed play Any Which Way.[7][8]

Emmerdale

In October 2011, Eyo began appearing in Emmerdale as Ruby Haswell, the lesbian partner of Ali Spencer (Kelli Hollis). Eyo's role ended on 6 August 2015 when her character died in a helicopter crash.[9][10][11]

Personal life

Eyo is a pescatarian. She is a supporter and patron of The Proud Trust, an LGBT charity that provides services and support for young people.[12]

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Everybody Loves Sunshine	Sandra	uncredited
1999	G:MT - Greenwich Mean Time	Bobby
2000	The Low Down	Paul Girl
Television
1997	Hetty Wainthropp Investigates	Trisha Grice	1 episode - All Stitched Up
1997	Band of Gold	Jae	- Band of Gold TV Series
1999	Wing and a Prayer	Roz Cairnforth	1 episode - Episode #2.1
1999	Tube Tales		TV movie, segment - Grasshopper
2001	Urban Gothic	Amber	1 episodes - Sandman
2003	Bad Girls	Denny Blood	1999–2003; main cast
2004	Doctors	Dawn Fuller	1 episode - Love Thy Neighbour
2006	Holby City	Emma Bennet/Rae Hollins	2004–2006; 2 episodes - A Twist of Fate, I'll Be Back
2006	Bombshell	Gunner Gaynor Harvey	main cast
2006	Spooks	Raoula	1 episode - Gas and Oil, Part 2
2007	The Bill	Daisy Driscoll	1 episodes - Uncovered
2009	Paradox	Jean Fellowes	1 episode - Episode #1.3
2010	Casualty	Claire Lomas/Julie/Lissa Burrows	1997–2010; 3 episodes - Private Lives, Is She Really Going Out With Him?, Life Sentence
2011	Silent Witness	Joanne McDermott	2 episodes - First Casualty: Part 1, First Casualty: Part 2
2011	Waterloo Road	Sandi Mansfield	1 episode - series 7 episode 5
2011	Moving On	Ally	1 episode - The Milkman, series 3 episode 1
2011–15	Emmerdale	Ruby Haswell	Main Cast
2016	Silent Witness	Jo Keating	2 episodes - In Plain Sight Parts 1 & 2 S19:E7&E8
2019–	Clink	Dominique Darby	Lead role
2021	The Syndicate	Corinne	Series 4 episode 4
2021	Help	June	Television film

References

External links

• Official Alicya Eyo Website
• Alicya Eyo at IMDb

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