While Sarah Hadland has been on our screens for years, she prefers to keep private about her personal life.
The Miranda star doesn’t share much, but she did recently dedicate a dance to her daughter on Strictly Come Dancing.
The talented actress hasn’t stopped working since she landed her first role over three decades ago.
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Childhood
Sarah was born on 15 May 1971, making her 53 years old. She is originally from St Albans in Hertfordshire, England and attended school at Wilmslow High School in Cheshire.
During her youth, she got involved in amateur dramatics with the Tempo youth group and then went on to train at the prestigious Laine Theatre Arts.
She launched her theatre career at the age of 19 and appeared in many different productions from Cats to Grease on the West End.
Acting career
Following six-years on the theatre scene, she joined a touring company and was part of performances of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
She also turned her talents to voice acting, working on a Catsan advert, a VO5 shampoo commercial and in a PlayStation 2 video game called Dragon Quest VIII.
Her television career began with supporting roles in Bad Girls and The Bill, before she moved on to bigger roles with programmes like Green Wing and Broken News.
One of her best known characters is Stevie in the BBC comedy series Miranda, which started in 2008.
People will also be familiar with Sarah from her countless roles on Horrible Histories between 2009 and 2015.
In 2011, Sarah joined Waterloo Road as a new English teacher named Linda Radleigh.
Since then, she has acted in the ITV sitcom The Job Lot and more recently, Sarah became a contestant on the 22nd season of Strictly Come Dancing.
Motherhood
Sarah prefers to keep private about her personal life, but she is a mother to her daughter. The pair live in Blackheath together with their cat Percy.
She recently opened up about her daughter in a Strictly VT. She was performing a foxtrot to Billie Eilish's Birds of a Feather with her dance pro Vito Coppola.
She said: “[This dance] it's about my family and me and my little one. This song is special to us because we sing it together. It would be really lovely to show how I feel in the dance.”
Sarah also spoke about being a working mum, telling Hello! Magazine: “It's quite a juggle but you manage to do it like all working mums. I think you just have to put your 'mum hat' on and your 'work hat' on and I feel so lucky to be doing this show.”
The family live in a home in Blackheath that was originally a stable.
Back in 2019, she told The Times: “We have a farmers' market and an annual street party. I love the village feel.
“I found my house while traipsing behind my dad, telling him, 'Don't be ridiculous, I'll never be able to afford Blackheath.' We promptly came across this house. I am attracted to quirky buildings. The house was originally a stable — I have photos of it in the 1980s, with barn doors.”
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