Background
Faulkner was born in Merton, London, to a civil servant and a legal secretary. Faulkner was sixteen when her mother Julie, who had throat cancer for two years, died.
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Lisa Faulkner
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She was educated at Tiffin Girls" School in Kingston upon Thames.
Career
At the age of 16, Faulkner was approached by a modelling scout while she was waiting on the platform of a London tube station. In 1992 she made her first acting appearance in The Lover, starring Jane March. At age 23, Faulkner played the part of Alison Dangerfield in the British television drama Dangerfield.
She also starred in the 1995 British film A Feast at Midnight.
In 1996 she appeared in And The Beat Goes On. Two years later, she played Louise Hope in the Channel 4 soap Brookside.
Between 1999 and 2001, she played Doctor Victoria Merrick on Holby City, before her character was stabbed to death in her own home by the father of a patient whose life she couldn"t save. In the television show Spooks, her character Helen Flynn suffered a particularly gruesome fate.
In only the second episode of the first series, Faulkner"s character had her hand and face burnt in a deep fat fryer before being shot in the head at point-blank range, setting a precedent for later deaths in Spooks.
In 2004, she starred as Doctorate.S. Emma Scribbins ("Scribbs") in Murder in Suburbia on Independent Television where she played a Crime Investigation Department policewoman in company with Caroline Catz who played her gaffer, Doctorate.I. Ashurst. The show returned for a second series in 2005, with Scribbs adopting the then popular fashion style of "boho-chic". In 2006, she starred in the television series New Street Law.
lieutenant was rumoured that Faulkner had been shortlisted to play the role of Doctorate.I. Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes, the sequel series to Life on Mars.
However, Faulkner"s former Spooks co-star Keeley Hawes was subsequently cast in the role. Since June 2008, Faulkner has narrated BBC1 show Heir Hunters, replacing Nadia Sawalha.
She regularly teaches at Amanda Redman"s Artists Theatre School. Faulkner was voted one of FHM"s "100 Sexiest Women in the World" six times between 1999 and 2004.
She regularly contributed to Big Brother"s Little Brother, a magazine programme about the reality United Kingdom television show Big Brother on Channel 4.
She appeared in the third season premiere of the Canadian show, Murdoch Mysteries, when the series filmed an episode in and around Bristol, England, which aired in 2010, and returned for her second guest appearance in the fourth season in 2011. She also appeared twice in the fifth season. She co-hosted Real Food Family Cook Office on Channel 5 with Matt Dawson.
The series aired in 2011.
In 2013, she co-hosted the daytime Channel 4 series What"s Cooking? alongside Ben Shephard and in 2015 was reunited with Shephard to co-host an episode of This Morning Summer.
