Alexandra Louise "Ali" Bastian is an English television actress, best known for playing Becca Dean in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2001 to 2007, and Personal Computer Sally Armstrong in long-running Independent Television drama series The Bill from 2007 to 2009.
Education
Bastian attended the Redroofs Theatre School at Maidenhead from the ages of 10 to 13, and started professional acting with a role in Jane Eyre aged 10. She then attended Claires Court School, The College (now Claires Court Senior Girls), Maidenhead.
Career
Hollyoaks Bastian joined the Channel 4 soap in 2001. She was involved in a controversial storyline in Hollyoaks where her character was fired from her teaching job and sent to prison after having an affair with one of her students, Justin Burton played by Chris Fountain. In December 2005, alongside her Hollyoaks cast mates Jodi Albert and Sarah Jayne Dunn, Bastian appeared in an exercise video called Hollyoaks Get Fit.
She departed the show in 2007.
Other television work Bastian has also appeared on television in Jane Eyre, Cavegirl, A Touch of Frost, Twenty Four 7, and Here After. Bastian joined the long-running Independent Television police drama The Bill as Personal Computer Sally Armstrong in summer 2007. and departed in late 2009, Strictly Come Dancing She was a contestant, departing in the semi-final on Strictly Come Dancing 2009, where she was partnered with Brian Fortuna.
In week 11 Bastian severely bruised the bones of her foot while training. Doctors later gave her the all clear to go ahead and perform.
There was doubt about her fitness to perform in the show"s semifinal.
After successfully performing, Ali and Brian were eliminated, finishing in third place out of sixteen couples. Bastian currently holds the celebrity record for the American Smooth and the Viennese Waltz, receiving a perfect score for both of these dances. Bastian then joined Fortuna in the hit West End dance show, Burn the Floor, which opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 21 July 2010, and ran until 4 September 2010.
Other work.