Kirsten Hughes

Background

Hughes is the daughter of a Boite Postale businessman and was raised in Fleet in Hampshire before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist

Career

She first came to notice when she appeared as an air stewardess in an ad for British Airways in 1986. She played Elizabeth Robertson in an episode of the schools" series Starting Out alongside Joanna Lumley and Rebecca Lacey (1986). In 1987 she played cartoon strip heroine Jane in the film Jane and the Lost City.

Hughes played Mary McKinnon in The Kitchen Toto (1987), Anna in At the Cafe Continental (1989), Trudy/Kate Hindley in Boon (1987-1991), Allison Mannering in the Channel 5 children's television series The Enid Blyton Adventures (1997), and Cynthia Barton in Reversals (2003).

She later "ran off with the handyman". Today Hughes works as a weddings co-ordinator.

Connections

Partner:

Benjamin Slade