April Pearson

April Pearson (2007)

April Janet Pearson (born January 23, 1989 in Bristol , England ) is a British actress . She was best known for her role as Michelle Richardson in the British teenage television series Skins .

Life

Her mother brought Pearson to a newly formed small children's theater company in Bristol at the age of three. In her childhood and youth she was repeatedly on stage with this group as well as in school in several plays. Her first television appearance was in 1998 when she was nine years old in two episodes of the long-running hospital series Casualty , where her father works. In 2008 and 2011 she played again in one episode of this series.

Pearson attended Colston's Girls' School in Bristol, where she made it to the Head Girl position . Her breakthrough as an actress came in 2007 with the television series Skins , which came to her school in search of young acting talent. On the advice of her drama teacher, she applied and got the role of Michelle Richardson , which she played for the first two seasons and several online extras available on the series' website. From the second to the third season, almost the entire ensemble was replaced, and Pearson also left the series.

In her first feature film, the 2009 slasher film Tormented , Pearson played a sadistic student. She also returned to the theater and appeared in the play Suspension at the Bristol Old Vic in the spring of 2009 . In autumn 2009, the role of kidnapping victim Callie followed in the play Negative Space at the New End Theater in London .

Filmography

1998, 2008, 2011, 2013: Casualty (TV series, 5 episodes)
2007–2008: Skins - Up close ( Skins , TV series, 19 episodes)
2009: Tormented
2013: Dates (TV series, 1 episode)
2013: Bamboo (TV movie)
2014: Home for Christmas
2015: Suspicion (TV series, 1 episode)
2016: Tank 432 (Belly of the Bulldog)
2016: Fractured
2017: Caught
2017: Dark Beacon
2018: Kiss Me First (TV series, 1 episode)
2018: Tucked
2018: Tracks

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Benjie Goodhart: The National Student Magazine - TV . January 14, 2007. Archived from the original on February 11, 2007. Retrieved on September 29, 2012.
^ ^A ^b Paul Byrne: School's out for Pearson. Having broken through in Skins, April Pearson tells Paul Byrne she has her sights set on the silver screen with Tormented. In: Evening Herald. May 22, 2009, accessed September 29, 2012 .
^ ^A ^b Paul Byrne: Interview with April Pearsons for Tormented and Skins. In: Movies.ie. May 25, 2009, accessed February 8, 2016 .
↑ Ellen E Jones: Tormented. Suicide is painful ... In: Total Film. April 14, 2009, accessed September 29, 2012 .
^ Jackie Cobham: Negative Space at the New End Theater, review. Rachel Sternberg and Jemma Wayne's Negative Space examines the impact of a missing child on a family. Rating * * *. In: The Telegraph. September 23, 2009, accessed September 29, 2012 .

Web links

April Pearson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Interview with April Pearson at The National Student Magazine ( February 11, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Pearson, April
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pearson, April Janet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British actress
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bristol , England

[nationalstudent-1] A ^b Benjie Goodhart: The National Student Magazine - TV . January 14, 2007. Archived from the original on February 11, 2007. Retrieved on September 29, 2012.

[Herald-2] A ^b Paul Byrne: School's out for Pearson. Having broken through in Skins, April Pearson tells Paul Byrne she has her sights set on the silver screen with Tormented. In: Evening Herald. May 22, 2009, accessed September 29, 2012 .

[movies.ie-3] A ^b Paul Byrne: Interview with April Pearsons for Tormented and Skins. In: Movies.ie. May 25, 2009, accessed February 8, 2016 .

[4] Ellen E Jones: Tormented. Suicide is painful ... In: Total Film. April 14, 2009, accessed September 29, 2012 .

[5] Jackie Cobham: Negative Space at the New End Theater, review. Rachel Sternberg and Jemma Wayne's Negative Space examines the impact of a missing child on a family. Rating * * *. In: The Telegraph. September 23, 2009, accessed September 29, 2012 .