Laura Sadler

Laura Ruth Sadler was an English actress. She played nurse Sandy Harper in the BBC One hospital drama series Holby City for three years until her death.

Sadler was born in Ascot, Berkshire, and grew up in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. As a young girl she enrolled at the Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe, before joining the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London. She was spotted as a future talent at the age of six by Dustin Hoffman, who had seen her in a play and asked to meet her. Before joining the cast of Holby City, her bestknown role had been as the character Judi Jeffreys in the childrens television series Grange Hill from 1997 to 1999. Her Grange Hill character was killed after slipping and falling out of a burning building, tragically paralleling her reallife death four years later. Laura also played the part of Skirty Marm in a BBC1 childrens comedy, Belfry Witches. Skirty Marm and her friend Old Noshie were teenage witches banished to Earth from Witch Island, settling in a sleepy village where they caused mischief.

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