Jessie Wallace

Jessie Wallace is an English actress. She is known for her role of Kat Slater in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, for which she won the National Television Awards for Most Popular Newcomer and Most Popular Actress , and the British Soap Award for Best Actress . She was nominated for the 2011 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Pat Phoenix in the BBC Four drama The Road to Coronation Street .

Wallace was born at 204 Durants Road, Enfield, Greater London, to James, a telecommunications engineer, and Annette, a secretary. Her parents divorced when she was aged three and she and her sister were raised by their father . She adopted her stage name after her late grandmother.

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