Heather Craney

Heather Craney is an English actress born in Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, who studied English and drama at Liverpool Hope University and graduated in 1992 before training in acting and musical theater at Central School of Speech and Drama, where she finished in 1995. She worked with Mike Leigh on three films, Topsy-Turvy, All or Nothing and Vera Drake (2004), and her role as Joyce Drake in the last brought a 2005 BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Her other screen credits include Drinking Crude, Loop and Dangerous Parking. For television, she played Alison Weaver in Life of Riley, Cheryl Matthews in EastEnders and Emily Holroyd in Torchwood, and her other credits include Silent Witness, The Bill, Holby City, The Mark of Cain (2007) and Ahead of the Class. Her stage work includes Passion Play at the Donmar Warehouse, Stoning Mary, Sugar Mummies, Dangerous Corner and Death of an Elephant.