{{Short description|British actress}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2010}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Sophie Powles | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|9|16|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Cleethorpes]], [[Lincolnshire]], England | yearsactive = 2001–present | occupation = [[Actress]] | children = 2 }} '''Sophie Powles''' (born 16 September 1988) is an [[England|English]] actress, known for her role as [[Holly Barton]] in the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] [[soap opera]] ''[[Emmerdale]]''.
==Career== Powles has guest-starred in dramas such as ''[[Holby City]]'' and ''[[Dalziel and Pascoe (TV series)|Dalziel and Pascoe]]'' before landing a role in the ITV drama series ''[[Britannia High]]''. Her character Ronnie was the only one of the main cast who was not a student at the fictional school of performing arts. Ronnie was created especially for Powles, as all the main cast were already in place. On 22 May 2009, it was announced that Powles was to join [[soap opera]] ''[[Emmerdale]]'' as [[Holly Barton]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s12/emmerdale/news/a156759/emmerdale-casts-sexy-farming-family.html|title='Emmerdale' casts 'sexy' farming family|work=[[Digital Spy]]|publisher=[[Hachette Filipacchi UK]]|last=Green|first=Kris|date=22 May 2009|accessdate=5 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/NEW-DARLING-DALES/story-11530396-detail/story.html|title=Actress lands Emmerdale role|date=9 July 2009|work=[[Grimsby Telegraph]]|publisher=[[Northcliffe Media]]|accessdate=5 September 2011}}</ref> Powles dyed her natural blonde hair brown for the role.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lastbroadcast.co.uk/soaps/interviews/v/8807-sophie-powles-emmerdale-interview.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110216224636/http://www.lastbroadcast.co.uk/soaps/interviews/v/8807-sophie-powles-emmerdale-interview.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=16 February 2011|title=Sophie Powles (Emmerdale) Interview|publisher=Last Broadcast|accessdate=5 September 2011}}</ref> On 5 February 2016, new series producer Iain MacLeod announced that Powles had reprised her role and would be returning to ''Emmerdale'' the following month.<ref name="BringingBack">{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/emmerdale/news/a782545/emmerdale-is-bringing-back-sophie-powles-as-holly-barton-and-its-bad-news-for-cain/|title=Emmerdale is bringing back Sophie Powles as Holly Barton... and it's bad news for Cain Dingle|last=Kilkelly|first=Daniel|date=5 February 2016|publisher=[[Digital Spy]]|accessdate=5 February 2016}}</ref> However, just under seven months later in August 2016, Powles once again quit the soap, with a source stating that she "never saw her return as a long one". The actress had already filmed her final scenes at this point, and the character departed the show on 29 September 2016, when Holly was killed off. She then later took part in a theatre play called 'Rehearsal For Murder', which toured the UK.
==Personal life== In June 2021, Powles announced that she was pregnant with her first child. In August 2021, she gave birth to her daughter, Marli.{{cn|date=April 2023}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=1528340|name=Sophie Powles}}
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