Education
She attended classes every Saturday, with dancing.
She attended classes every Saturday, with dancing.
Eyo was brought up in Toxteth, Liverpool. When she was fourteen, she moved to London. Eyo’s love of drama started when she was nine.
She did her drama training in King"s Cross, at the Courtyard School.
Eyo"s first television appearance was in 1997, in Casualty, which was filmed earlier. She also made an appearance on Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and appeared in Gold the follow up drama series to Band Of Gold as a young prostitute involved with Yardie gangsters who come over to Bradfords red light district from Leeds to clear up the Lane.
In 1999, Eyo appeared with Goldie in the David Bowie film Everybody Loves Sunshine known as B.U.S.T.E.D., internationally. She also starred in the movie G:Montana - Greenwich Mean Time.
However, Eyo"s big break came in 1998 when she was offered the part of Denny Blood, in Bad Girls.
The series was broadcast in June the following year when the United Kingdom viewing public first saw Eyo as Denny Blood in a pink Polyvinyl chloride suit dancing to the North-Trance remix of Stayin" Alive by the Bee Gees. Her agent told her that the production company, Shed, were looking for a "shit, young, black, skinhead, tattoos with piercing". Bad Girls At the end of the sixth series (in which Eyo did not appear), the character of Denny Blood was voted the sixth favourite inmate on Bad Girls: Most Wanted.
Denny’s tragic upbringing, lead to the touching and tragic storylines with her mother, Jessie Devlin (played by Denise Black), and the relationship with stand-in mother Yvonne Atkins (Linda Henry).
Eyo also met the love of her life Shaz Wiley (Lindsey Fawcett), who died at the end of Series 4. Denny was devastated but found comfort in painting and was last seen being transferred to an open prison to serve the rest of her sentence.
Just before Bad Girls was axed, the Bad Girls" creators were going to ask Eyo to reprise her role as Denny. During this time, Eyo also appeared in the film The Low Down, in an episode of Urban Gothic and in Tube Tales.
Since leaving Bad Girls, Eyo appeared in Holby City twice, as two separate characters, and the British Broadcasting Corporation daytime drama Doctors.
Eyo plays Gaynor Harvey in Shed Productions drama Bombshell. However, Bombshell still has not been shown in the United Kingdom, but has aired in New Zealand. Eyo has also performed at various theatres including the Royal Court, Nothingham.
Emmerdale Eyo"s role in Emmerdale ended on 6 August 2015 when her character died as a result of a helicopter crash.