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Seven celebrities you might not realise are from Nottinghamshire
Nottingham Post
|June 09, 2025
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE has produced a long line of famous faces who have made in big in the world of acting, music and sport. You'll spot them on screens, big and small.
When it comes to sporting royalty we have Torvill and Dean, Rebecca Adlington, Lee Westwood and Carl Froch. And there's no shortage in the world of film and TV, thanks largely to Nottingham’s Television Workshop. Samantha Morton, Vicky McClure, Toby Kebbell, Aisling Loftus, Bella Ramsey and Joe Dempsie are some of the big names who trained there.
Other stars of stage and screen include Su Pollard, Chris Gascoyne, Sherrie Hewson and Mathew Horne.
Famous music stars include Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden’s lead singer, who was born in Worksop, Jay McGuiness, who found fame with boyband The Wanted before going on to tread the boards, is from Newark, and it's a well-known fact that Jake Bugg’s roots are in Clifton.
They are some of the most instantly famous faces from Nottinghamshire but there are plenty of others that you might not realise were born here.
ROSIE BENTHAM
Rosie has played Gabby Thomas in Emmerdale since 2016. Hailing from West Bridgford, the former Nottingham Emmanuel School student was just 14 when she got the call.
"I was out shopping with my mate when I found out I'd got the role. I was jumping around in Boots. It was amazing," she said.
Like many before her, Rosie, now 23, attended Nottingham’s Television Workshop and her transition into the soap was helped by fellow soap stars Lucy Pargeter and James Hooton, who also went to the acting school. Rosie's gritty role has seen her learning that her father Ashley has dementia and dealing with his death, going off the rails and becoming a teenage parent. After a turbulent love life, last month viewers saw Gabby agree to marry Vinny after his proposal.
NORMA BURTON
The name Norma Burton might not mean anything but if we say Jess and Norma you might recognise them as the social media phenomenon.
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