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Date of Birth

20 March 1979, London, England, UK

Birth Name

Frema Agyeman

Height

5' 3" (1.60 m)

Trivia

In July 2006, she appeared on an episode of the new "Doctor Who" series, and the producers were so impressed with her performance that they offered her the role of Martha Jones on the show's upcoming third season, debuting sometime in the Spring of 2007.

Attended Our Lady's Convent, a Catholic comprehensive in Stamford Hill, Anna Scher Theatre School, and did performing arts and drama at Middlesex University, graduated in 2000.

Brought up in North London, UK, by her Iranian mother and Ghanaian father. on the Woodberry Down estate in Finsbury Park with her older sister, Leila, and younger brother, Domenic. Her mother, Azar, and her father, Osei, separated when she was a child.

Along with John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd and Naoko Mori, she is one of only five actors to play the same character (Martha Jones) in both "Doctor Who" (2005) and "Torchwood" (2006).

She has a younger brother, Domenic, and older sister, Leila. Her mother, Azar, is Iranian and her father, Osei, is Ghanaian.

Basic martial arts and gymnastics, horse riding. Also skilled at various accents including Australian and Liverpudlian.

Her secondary school was Our Lady's Convent in Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill and she attended the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington during the summer of 1996.

Graduated in 2000 with BA Honours in Performing Arts and Drama from Middlesex University. Also took theatre courses at Radford University in Virginia, USA in 1998.

Ranked #16 on Wizard magazine's 'Sexiest Women on TV' list (March 2008).

Where Are They Now

(May 2008) Filming "Little Dorrit", at Deal Castle in Kent, England, UK.

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