Sarah Baxendale

Sarah Baxendale (born 23 April 1978) is a British actress. She began her career with guest appearances in Fat Friends and Doctors, as well as appearing in the television movie My Beautiful Son (also known as Strange Relations). From 2002 to 2005, she portrayed Ellie Mills on the British soap opera Hollyoaks, which she also played in the one-off spinoff Hollyoaks: Leap of Faith (2003). For her role as Ellie, Baxendale was longlisted for Best Actress at the 2004 British Soap Awards. After leaving the soap, she appeared in the theatre productions Wrestling Mad (2005) and Secrets (2009), the television comedy-drama A Civil Arrangement (2012), the gameshow whodunnit series Armchair Detectives (2017) and the films The Knife That Killed Me (2014) and Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018). She has also guest-starred in various other television and internet shows, including Benidorm and Holby City.