Sarah-Jane Potts


Sarah-Jane Potts is an English actress, best known for her roles as Saint in Sugar Rush, as Ellie, Abs' on/off girlfriend on Casualty and as Jo Lipsett in Waterloo Road. Potts is the sister of actor Andrew-Lee Potts. From 2011, she appeared in Holby City as Senior Nurse Eddi McKee on AAU, playing a different character to the one she played in Casualty. Potts left Holby City in the second episode of Series 15; her departure was kept a secret by the production team and was not reported at all by the media, resulting in a shock exit for her character.
Early in her career she noted that, "In the three years I have been acting I have spent most of the time looking dirty, scruffy, ill or tarty."

Personal life

Potts attended Bradford's Scala Kids stage school with her brother Andrew. As a teenager she worked in a greasy spoon cafe in Bradford. She left school during her A-levels to star in Meat. From 1999-2001 she dated Erik Palladino. They met at a film festival in Sweden during the summer of 1999 and at the end of the year she moved to Los Angeles to live with him. She met her former husband, Tony Denman, when filming National Lampoon's Barely Legal and they were married in June 2002. She has a son, named Buster Alan Denman, born 2004. She met her second husband, Joseph Millson, while working together on the medical drama Holby City and married him on 31 December 2013.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1997My Son the FanaticMadeline Fingerhut
1998WoundingsLouise
1999StraydogsAnna
1999WonderlandMelanie
1999Mauvaise passeLiz
2000Five Seconds to SpareTwig
2001Young BladesRadegonde / Anne
2003National Lampoon's Barely LegalAshley
2004Breaking DawnAnna
2005Kinky BootsLauren
2007MissedEmmaShort film
2008Heart of a DragonAmanda

YearTitleRoleNotes
1989Children's WardTV series
1994MeatMyraTV movie
1995'MandyEpisode: "To Crack a Nut"
1995Moving StoryJoyEpisode: "Superstition"
1996Peak PracticeMaddie TaylorEpisode: "A New Life"
1996BramwellRose TullyEpisode: "2.6"
1996Out of the BlueKirstyEpisode: "2.6"
1996SceneAlisonEpisode: "Alison"
1997'Virginia OtisTV movie
1997'Harriet Potter6 episodes
1997'Alice PierceTV miniseries
1999Dalziel and PascoeSophie RichmondEpisode: "Time to Go"
2000–2001FelicityMolly14 episodes
2002Deep CoverGeorgia HaleyTV series
2002Off CentreJulieEpisode: "Cockfight"
2002NYPD BlueElizabeth GarnerEpisode: "Meat Me in the Park"
2003Murder She Wrote: The Celtic RiddleBreeta ByrneTV movie
2003The Legend of TarzanBonnie PorterEpisode: "Unaired Pilot"
2003American DreamsKaraEpisode: "Change a Comin'"
Episode: "The Long Goodbye"
2003–2004Keen EddieAudryEpisode: "Pilot: Eddie"
Episode: "Sucker Punch"
Episode: "Citizen Cecil"
2005BodiesRuth DuncanEpisode: "2.10"
2006Sugar RushSaint10 episodes
2007You Can Choose Your FriendsChloeTV movie
2008CasualtyEllie Bridges10 episodes
2008EmmerdaleLeanne Grounding3 episodes
2009–2010Waterloo RoadJo Lipsett18 episodes
2010ReunitedFranTV movie
2011ZenCinzia MilettiEpisode: "Ratking"
2011–12Holby CityEddi McKeeSeries regular, 58 episodes
2014GracepointGemma10 episodes
2015New TricksToni1 episode