Charlie Brooks

Charlene Emma Charlie Brooks is an English actress, known for playing Janine Butcher in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Brooks portrayal of Janine has awarded Brooks with numerous awards, since her first appearance in 1999, with storylines involving cocaine addiction, prostitution and murder. Brooks has appeared in British television shows The Bill, Wired and Bleak House,the latter a role for which she received much critical acclaim. Brooks released a highly popular and bestseller fitness DVD, Before And After Workout, before winning the 2011 version of the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special and the twelfth series of Im a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here.

Brooks was born in 1981, in Ware, Hertfordshire, England, but moved to Barmouth, Wales, when she was a child. Christened as Charlene, Brooks moved to Barmouth with her mother, Rowena Roe, brother Ben, and sister, Beth. Brooks attended Tower House School, in Barmouth, and relocated to London to attend Ravenscourt Theatre School. Ben, her brother, also got a place, and they lived with another family. Brooks said, It was difficult. We were little Welsh children and didnt know anything outside the mountains. I was homesick and the family we boarded with werent very nice. They liked Ben, but not me. Soon after we arrived the woman said, Hell work and she wont. It was incredibly tough and made me grow up quickly. Roe, a former restaurant manager, and Beth soon followed, relocating to London, living in the flat below Brooks. Due to Brooks acting ambition, her father, Danny, an owner of a building company, stayed in Wales, consequently meaning her parents split. Brooks said of this, It was som

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