Born:
March 27, 1988
in
Didsbury, Manchester
Best Known For:
Playing Anastasia in the live action version of Cinderella.
Early-life:
Holliday Clark Grainger was born on March 27, 1988 in Didsbury, Manchester. She was scouted by the BBC as a child and appeared in a number of TV series and independent films as a child actor. Holliday attended Parrs Wood High School from 1999 to 2006. She started to study for a degree in English literature at the University of Leeds in 2007 but switched to the Open University, where she gained a first.
Career:
Grainger's first role was in the BBC comedy drama series All Quiet on the Preston Front, which was followed by appearances in Casualty, Doctors and Dalziel and Pascoe. She played Megan Boothe in Where the Heart Is, Stacey Appleyard in Waterloo Road and Lucrezia Borgia in The Borgias. During the years when she worked on the latter, Grainger had a string of film appearances in Jane Eyre (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), Great Expectations (2012) and Bel Ami (2012). She played Bonnie Parker in the TV mini-series Bonnie & Clyde and has since gone on to appear in Cinderella (2015), The Finest Hours (2016) and the TV series Strike.
Quote:
'As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.'
Trivia:
When she was a child, she had lessons in piano, gymnastics and Taekwondo.