Nicole Faraday was born in Germany on Wednesday, 28 July 1976 to British parents. Her father, a consultant doctor, was a medical officer in the Royal Air Force working on a British base in Germany at the time of her birth. The family later moved back to her mother"s home town of Swanage in Dorset.
Nicole attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, Clayesmore School in Blandford Forum, Dorset and went on to train in musical theatre at the Guildford School of Acting.
In, she played prison inmate Snowball Merriman in series 4 and 5. She played a different character, Shell Dockley, in the West End stage musical version at London"s Garrick. Faraday and Stephenson bear a strong physical resemblance and their characters in were similarly styled.
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When the character of Shell returned to the television series for several episodes in series 5 (after being recaptured after having escaped from prison and spending some time on the run in Europe), Shell offers up a comment on Snowball: "Cheeky slag! Nicole appeared as the Wicked Queen in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Eastbourne"s Devonshire Park from 12 December 2008 to 11 January 2009 alongside Stefan Booth and Niamh Perry from British Broadcasting Corporation"s I"d Do Anything.
Faraday won a prestigious Turnaround Management Association Award in October 2006 for best supporting actress in a musical for her portrayal of Shell in the musical"s original run at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.She was subsequently nominated for Best supporting Actress in a musical at the West End Whatsonstage.com Awards 2007/8.Other notable Theatre credits include An Audience with the Mafia at the Apollo Theatre and the role of Eva Cassidy in Over the Rainbow.
From 2002–2003 Faraday was a principal cast member of both Independent Television"s Bad Girls and the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Casualty.
