Persephone Swales-Dawson Explained

Birth Place:Rochdale, England
Occupation:Actress
Known For:Hollyoaks (2014–2016, 2018, 2020)
Years Active:2014–present

Persephone Swales-Dawson is a British actress. She is known for her role as Nico Blake in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks that she played regularly from 2014 to 2016, reprising the role briefly in 2018 and 2020.

Early life

Swales-Dawson was born in Rochdale and grew up in Yorkshire. She attended Todmorden High School.[1] She began acting in school and joined the youth group at Hebden Bridge Little Theatre (HBLT). In 2013, she successfully auditioned for the Lowry Young Actors Company in Salford.[2] She later enrolled in classes at Mindful Acting.[3]

Career

In 2014,[4] Swales-Dawson joined the cast of the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as the murderous teen villain Nico Blake, whom she would play until the character's supposed death in 2016.[5] For her performance, she won Best Bad Girl at the Inside Soap Awards that year. In a surprise, she returned to the soap in 2018 to reprise her role as Nico, but the character was killed off the same year. She then reprised the role in 2020 in a series of hallucinations.

Swales-Dawson made her professional stage debut when she played Jade Harcourt on the 2019 UK tour of The House on Cold Hill with Joe McFadden and Rita Simons.[6] [7] She also appeared in the television film Risk Takers.

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Notes and References

  1. Todmorden High's GCSE pupils are record breakers. Halifax Courier. 22 August 2013. 3 June 2023.
  2. Web site: Persephone Swales-Dawson. TresA Magazine. 26 October 2020. 3 June 2023.
  3. Web site: Persephone Swales-Dawson, Actor, England. Mandy. 3 June 2023.
  4. Hollyoaks casts Persephone Swales-Dawson as new teenage character Nico. Metro. Tina. Campbell. 21 May 2014. 21 May 2023.
  5. Web site: Hollyoaks: Nico Blake actress Persephone Swales-Dawson CONFIRMS character's death. Niomi. Harris. 31 October 2016. ok.co.uk. 21 November 2017.
  6. Web site: Ghoulish talk with Charlie Clements and Persephone Swales-Dawson. Quays Life. Carmel. Thomason. 17 April 2019. 3 June 2023.
  7. Web site: Review: 'The House on Cold Hill' – Milton Keynes Theatre, April 2019. Georgina Butler. 18 April 2019. 3 June 2023.