Lenora Crichlow

Lenora Crichlow is an English actress who started training with the YoungBlood Theatre Company in Hammersmith at the age of twelve. Born in Westminster in 1985 and raised in Harlesden, London, she got her first professional job alongside Billie Piper in Bella and the Boys, a television film, and made her feature debut in the horror film Wilderness (2006). She became known for playing Maria Sugar Sweet in the Channel 4 series Sugar Rush, which won an International Emmy in 2006, and the ghost Annie Sawyer in BBC Three's Being Human, a part that earned her a Glamour Award as TV Actress of the Year in 2011. Her later film work includes Fast Girls (2012), Burton and Taylor (2013), Electricity (2014) and The Late Bloomer (2016), and on television she appeared in Black Mirror, Back in the Game, A to Z and Avenue 5. Since 2024 she has been a station voiceover on BBC Radio 3 Unwind.