About Me

I've been an extra on both movies and TV shows, and I love being part of the cast as an extra. I have flexible working hours as a midwifery student which means I am available with limited notice, I am enthusiastic and reliable with a great worth ethic.

Extras Work, Partipant, Contestant

Experience

Employment History & Experience

Extra on Dad's Army as a waitress
Extra on Stella season 5 as a student nurse

Languages Spoken

Experience & Qualifications

General Experience

•Healthcare assistant both general and maternity for NHS Professionals, Leeds and Harrogate trusts (present)
• Volunteer at St Mary’s Elderly Care home in Chiswick for 6 months (September 2007- March 2008)
• Volunteering as part of a team working on a fundraising campaign for MediCinema, a charity which builds specially designed patient cinemas in hospitals around the country – a wonderful experience for patients (June-August 2011)
• Volunteer in Hyderabad, India with a company called CAST (Child and Adult Support Team) teaching children aged 9-15 in a slum of 100,000 people and testing babies aged 4-6 months for developmental growth using the Bailey Scale of Infant Development, referring those who underperformed to the NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health). (July-August 2009).

Film
• An extra on Dad’s Army as a waitress
• An extra on Stella as a student nurse

Event Management
• Jack Nadel International: I was put solely in charge of an event run for Genesis Shipbrokers, choosing the venue, invitations, set up, prop hire, raising POs and managing the event (September 2012).
• Planning and assisting in all areas of managing a sports event for 200 people, which included a high profile Olympic Gold Medalist guest speaker. This involved designing and setting up the venue for the night, taking care of all the guests from everything such as ensuring smooth running of the bar to setting up the table activities. My role was to assist in all areas of the running of this successful event (March 2012).
• Jack Nadel International. I also assisted in the planning and running of an event: sending welcome packs and invitations, selecting and ordering gift pacts. Attended client and venue meetings, working on venue research and recces for the BBC Home Entertainment Christmas party (August & September 2011).



Office Management
• Jack Nadel International: Working as a PA for the president of the London branch, answering phones, updating online catalogues of merchandise on the suppliers websites including editing the artwork. I also helped set up a social media program for JNI - updating their Internet activity: website, blog and Facebook page. My objective was to promote their company through the latest technology (May 2012- Oct 2012).
• I currently freelance updating their social media (Oct 2014- present)

Teaching
• Teaching assistant at the Acorn Nursery School, London (May 2013-July 2013)
• Teaching assistant at the Acorn Nursery School, London for six months (September 2009-March 2010).
• Barnes Primary School working once a week for a year with the children there to develop their learning abilities and also their social interaction skills (September 2007- June 2008).

Waitressing
• Part-time café assistant at the Cowshed (Soho House Group), waitressing parties, cleaning, serving food and making coffee (June 2011- March 2012).

Qualifications & Training

Leeds University:
Midwifery BSc (Hons) - Sep 2013 entry

Durham University (Oct 2010-June 2013)
Second class upper division (2:1) in Health and Human Sciences BSc (Hons)
Modules included:
Evolutionary medicine
Infant health and reproduction
Mental Health and Illness
Dissertation: a qualitative research project on the emotional impact of miscarriage

Harrodian School, London: (2005-2009) A/As Level: Mathematics (B/a). Chemistry (C/c) French (C/c) Biology (c)
GSCE: Media (A*) Mathematics (A) English Literature (A) English Language (A) Science (AA) French (A) History (A) Statistics (A)

Marlborough School, Los Angeles, California (2002-2005)

Other Information

Interests & Hobbies

• I currently play for Leeds University women’s football team, which requires time management around my course placements. I captained my University college first football team and second netball team, and have won an award for Sportswomen of the year (2011-12).
• Sports leadership level 2 qualification for which I had to demonstrate leadership skills by organizing and running sports classes (2009)
• Photography: I took a photography course for two years in which I developed a portfolio and entered one of my photographs into a competition, which won a gold medal.

• Completed Royal Parks Half Marathon for which I raised £700 for MediCinema