Phina Oruche

In 2012 she made a return to TV on BBC1 drama Doctors, after taking time off to raise her son. In 2012 she featured as the celebrity bedtime story reader reading a story a day for children the week of the Queens Diamond jubilee. Also featured as a special correspondent on North West tonight reporting on the 30 year anniversary of the Toxteth riots. Phina now lives in her native Liverpool where she presented and produced the Saturday night radio programme Upfront on BBC Radio Merseyside. Phina has recently produced and hosted six Upfront Live shows for BBC Merseyside in Liverpool, at The Brink a non alcoholic bar in Liverpool, that she is in support of. On 29 March 2010, it was revealed she was cast to play a mother of a new family in teen soap Hollyoaks. She is best known for Liberty Baker a supermodel on The fifth and final series of "Footballers Wives" shot simultaneously alongside a very different role that of Heather Lees, a solicitor on "The Bill." The role of Liberty won her a Favorite TV star award from the prestigious Screen Nations and brought her full circle, back to the UK. She started her career in London and Paris as a fashion model, then onto New York where she worked extensively in American fashion magazines. Representing the Gap for 5 seasons. Until her desire to become an actress took her to the famed Actor's Studio where she became a lifetime member. In Los Angeles at the studio she was blessed to be instructed by Martin Landau, Mark Rydell and Barbara Bain. She started her Film and TV career in the United States. Just finished her first book "Liberating Character." Show less «