Kara Tointon
Kara Louise Tointon is an English actress, best known for playing Dawn Swann in BBC soap opera EastEnders and as the 2010 winner of BBC television series Strictly Come Dancing.
Tointon was born to Ken and Carol in Basildon, Essex. Together with her actress sister, Hannah , Tointon was brought up in LeighonSea. Both sisters attended St Michaels School, Leigh, and St Hildas School, WestcliffonSea, Essex. Tointon was diagnosed with dyslexia at age seven. She had speech and drama lessons at school. For about one year when she was a teenager, she dated James Bourne of the bands Busted, Son of Dork, and McBusted.
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