Emma Atkins
Born	Emma Atkins March 31, 1975 (1975-03-31) (age 34) Cumbria, England

Emma Atkins (born 31 March 1975 in Cumbria) is a popular English actress best known for playing the role of Charity Tate on the ITV1 Soap Opera Emmerdale from 2000 to 2005 which was her first appearance on British Television.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Television 1.2 Radio 1.3 Stage 2 Other 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Television

Atkins is best known for playing the role of Charity Tate on the ITV1 Soap Opera Emmerdale from 2000 to 2005 which was her first appearance on British Television. Since leaving Emmerdale, Atkins has appeared in episodes of the BBC series Dalziel and Pascoe, Mayo, I'm with stupid, New Street Law, Doctors and Casualty.

Atkins is an experienced Voice-over artiste as well as a Television and Stage actress. She is a former student at Our Ladies R.C. High School in Lancaster, before becoming a student at Salford University. Atkins made an appearance in Heartbeat.

On 18 March, 2009, it was revealed that Atkins would be returning to Emmerdale and reprising her role of Charity,^[1] and made her reappearance on 1 October 2009.

[edit] Radio

Atkins has most recently been heard playing the role of "Amy" in Murder in the Afternoon - The Longest Journey, an Afternoon Play by Peter Whally broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Atkins has been heard on BBC Radio 3 in Dead Code - Ghosts of the Digital Age by Jeff Noon for BBC Radio 3.

[edit] Stage

In 2005, Atkins appeared in a revival of Two by Jim Cartwright at Octagon Theatre, as the "special guest star" in a touring run of The Play What I Wrote and in in the Summer of 2006, Atkins appeared in an open air run of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Stafford Castle to much acclaim and over Christmas of the same year, the Pantomime Dick Whittington at Stafford Gatehouse.

[edit] Other

Atkins has a successful wallpaper company called Emma.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Emma Atkins at the Internet Movie Database
• Emma Atkins at TV.com

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