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Michelle Ryan
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Biography
Born: Michelle Claire Ryan on 22 April 1984, in Enfield, Greater London.
Michelle Ryan is an English actress previously best known for portraying the role of Zoe Slater on the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders. She now stars in the NBC television series Bionic Woman.
A member of a local theatre group since she was 10, Ryan was picked for her role in EastEnders when she was 15 and first appeared on the show in September 2000. In 2005, she announced she was leaving EastEnders to concentrate on work in theatre and films. During summer 2005, Ryan appeared in a run of Who's the Daddy? at the King's Head Theatre.
In spring 2007, Ryan was seen as Maria in a new adaptation of Mansfield Park opposite Billie Piper for ITV and also as Lila in the film I Want Candy, co-starring Carmen Electra and Mackenzie Crook. In February 2007, it was announced that she had been cast as the lead in the new drama Bionic Woman. The series began airing on the American network NBC in September 2007. She has had professional dance training and attributes to it helping her with the physically demanding stunts required for the show. Prior to Bionic Woman, she appeared in Jekyll for the BBC, a modern day version of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde starring James Nesbitt.
In May 2007, Ryan revealed she auditioned for the role of Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, eventually given to Eva Green the previous year.
