Kierston Wareing

Kierston Wareing is a British actress who landed her first film role as the lead in Ken Loach's It's a Free World..., playing an ambitious recruitment agent named Angie. She followed it with a supporting part in Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (2009), a film that took the BAFTA for Best British Film and the Jury Prize at Cannes. On television she has appeared in the miniseries The Runaway, The Take, Luther and The Shadow Line, and she played Heather in Channel 4's Top Boy. She joined EastEnders in 2012 as Kirsty Branning, leaving in 2014, and later played Delilah in The Bible and the villainess Ashley Davidson in Hollyoaks. Her other film work includes Rise of the Footsoldier (2007), and her honors include a BAFTA nomination and three British Independent Film Award nominations.