Hollie Chapman (born 1988 or 1989, possibly in Gaddesby in Leicestershire, England) is an English actress.[1][2]
She was trained in acting at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London.[1][3] Around 1996 she appeared as Tessie in a West End production of Annie.[3][4] She acted also in The Sound of Music as Maria, in Annie (village production), the title role, in Whistle Down the Wind (West End production)[3] and in Smike.[citation needed]
She got her first TV role in 2001,[citation needed] in an episode of the UK TV serial Holby City. In 2002 she played in the Channel 5 TV serial Don't Blame Me (or Don't Blame the Koalas), regularly appearing as Gemma King,[1] a lovable and arrogant English girl who goes with her brother and mother to Australia.[citation needed] In 2006 she was the voice of the soft puppet Cuddle in Softies, a pre-school TV-series.[5] Softies (aired since 2003) is a TV serial with 80 episodes. Each episode has a duration of 5 minutes.[6] In 2006 she acted in two episodes of Doctors, the British television soap opera.[citation needed]
In the British radio soap opera The Archers on BBC Radio 4 she plays Alice Carter (née Aldridge).[4][7][8][9] In 2011 she played the character also in Ambridge Extra, a spin-off about the radio drama's younger characters.[10]