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Holly Aird was born in Aldershot, Hampshire on the 18th May, 1969. She showed a huge interest in ballet so she started to attend a local dance school. At the age of nine, young Holly was picked out by a casting director to star inThe History of Mr. Polly (1980).
Her first acting appearance went well, and she began getting even more roles, such asThe Tale of Beatrix Potter (1983)andThe Flame Trees of Thika (1981).
It was around the time that Holly was filmingThe Flame Trees of Thika (1981)that her parents divorced but they stayed good friends and were always supportive in her pursuit of fame.
Holly is one of only a few actresses who manage the difficult transition from child/teenage actor to adult actress. She is now most well-known as "Nancy Thorpe/Garvey" inSoldier Soldier (1991) and, more recently, for her role as forensic pathologist, "Frankie Wharton", in the BBC series,Waking the Dead (2000), which she left at the end of season four to concentrate on her family.
Her personal life certainly hasn't been easy. Holly married actorJames Purefoy but they divorced in 2002, only a few years after the birth of their son, Joseph Purefoy, who suffered from a rare blood disease which had both mum and dad at his bedside in the hospital. Joseph has now recovered and Holly has had a second child, Nelly Merritt, with her second husband,Toby Merritt, after meeting him on the set of Waking the Dead (2000)'s second season.
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