Emma Davies

Emma Davies, born in England in 1970, is an English actress whose father, stage and television performer Geoffrey Davies, helped steer her toward acting by letting her watch his stage work as a child and by getting her a first television appearance at eighteen months on The Fenn Street Gang. After drama training in London, she began taking small screen parts in the mid-1980s, with roles in Heartbeat, Doctors and Dream Team. Her first regular television part was teenager Jo Daly in the Midlands drama Boon from 1987 to 1989, followed by Juliette Bannerman in the ITV soap Families in 1993. She played Diana Mitford in the Channel Four miniseries Mosley in 1997, had a small role in Michael Apted's film Enigma in 2001, and was cast as Abigail York in Cape Wrath in 2007. In 2008 she joined Emmerdale as Anna De Souza, and in 2010 she appeared in Holby City as a distressed lawyer.