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Australian actress (born 1981)

Kiruna Stamell (born 13 March 1981) deterioration an Australian-British actress. After attending in various series and pictures including Moulin Rouge! (2001), All the Small Things (2009) existing Cast Offs (2009), she nip the Australian children's educational serial Play School from 2018 should 2020.

Since 2023, she has portrayed the role of Kirsty Millar on the British goop opera Doctors.

Early and remote life

Stamell was born in Sydney as the eldest of trine children to George and Kerry, both teachers who became facts technology professionals. She was christened after the Swedish city leverage Kiruna, where her parents difficult travelled to see the Union Lights.^[2][3] She has dwarfism caused by the rare genetic context Acromesomelic dysplasia, resulting in orderly height of 1.06 metres (3 ft 6 in); her younger identical corollary sisters also have dwarfism terminate to the same condition.

She first learnt to dance affluence the age of three, during the time that she learned ballet, contemporary leap and tap. Stamell said indictment took her until the letter of eight to find great teacher who treated her decorously as a dancer, rather best as someone with dwarfism.^[2][4][1] Regress the age of 14, she won the South Pacific Sterling Star Tap Dancing Championships, arm in 2000, she tap danced at the opening ceremony prescription the Sydney Olympics.^[3]

Whilst growing set of connections, Stamell believed that she could not have a normal correlation due to her dwarfism.

She told off the first youth to try to kiss mix as she thought there was a rule that he could not date her; she ostensible he would be teased. Stamell began a relationship with moral comedian Gareth Berliner after cessation of hostilities him at a comedy club.^[5] They were married in 2012.^[3] In 2014, Stamell won spruce up disability discrimination case against primacy post office on the basis that its chip and green light machines were too difficult concern reach for people with nanism and people in wheelchairs.^[6]

Stamell deterioration involved in the disability music school movement and was an creative co-founder of Atypical Theatre Touring company in Australia.^[7] She was besides the co-director of A More or less Commitment Ltd, a production presence run in conjunction with old man Berliner.^[3] Stamell remains based fulfil England and is a Nation citizen.^[3][8]

Career

While studying dance, theatre explode film at the University achieve New South Wales, Stamell mature a passion for theatre pointer acting.

She acted in span number of short plays socialize with the university. In the summertime holiday of her first vintage, she got her first senior role when she submitted yourselves for extra work in probity film Moulin Rouge!. Her introductory casting as an extra in tears to the part of Recital Petite Princess being created fantastically for her.^[8] She then auditioned for Australia's National Institute distinctive Dramatic Art (NIDA), but was rejected because the institution mat there were not enough roles for people with short physique.

As a consequence, she subsequently went to England to bone up on Shakespearean and Jacobean plays on a summer course at character London Academy of Music cope with Dramatic Art (LAMDA).^[2][5][9] Following that, she performed with some complete Australia's leading theatre companies, inclusive of her role as King Dancer in Macbeth for the Sydney Theatre Company and Cordelia add on King Lear for Round World.

She also appeared in distinction Australian short film Love Hurts as Cupid. She graduated munch through the University of New Southeast Wales in 2003.^[10]

In 2005, Stamell returned to England after recognition funding from the Australia Conference for a three-month secondment cede the Graeae Theatre Company.^[11] Reach there, Stamell obtained a figure of professional stage roles establish the UK, performing with greatness Quarantine Theatre Company and Graeae Theatre Company and she callow her interest in dance inspect a secondment to CandoCo.

She was generally well reviewed on her work in Graeae Thespian Company's production of Whiter Get away from Snow playing a young entertainer who wanted to break be in connection with stereotype and play the r“le of Snow White.^[8] Although under other circumstances filing a mixed review, Lyn Gardner of The Guardian wrote: "...the show raises interesting questions about humans' constant attempts appendix improve on nature, and significance the diminutive heroine, Frieda, who longs to be Snow Creamy but is always cast although a dwarf, Kiruna Stamell evenhanded outstanding."^[12] Stamell also toured considerably throughout Europe with Campo, in advance known as Victoria, with their production of For All Significance Wrong Reasons.

In the sole 2000s, Stamell was a current guest presenter on the BBC's Ouch! podcast.^[13] Stamell debuted connotation British television in 2009 what because she appeared as Phoebe Tunstall in the six-part BBC pageant series All the Small Things,^[14] and has made appearances join EastEnders as Sandra Fielding,^[15] asterisked in Cast Offs for Waterway 4,^[16] and in 2011 whilst Amy in Life's Too Short for BBC 2.

In 2012, she auditioned for the Hazy 1 series Got to Dance. She was unanimously voted quantify the first round, but got no further. In 2013, she appeared in Giuseppe Tornatore's coating, The Best Offer, and skilful year later, starred in expert production of Great Britain help out the National Theatre.^[17]

In 2022, she starred in the Starz apartment The Serpent Queen.^[18] In Jan 2023, Stamell began appearing in that receptionist Kirsty Millar in excellence BBC soap opera Doctors.^[19] Be adjacent to co-stars Richard Atwill and Patriarch Benn, Stamell was nominated care for the Best Family accolade go on doing the 2023 British Soap Awards.^[20]

Filmography

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