# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jill-halfpenny
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:01:17.112Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jill-halfpenny"
name: "Jill Halfpenny"
slug: "jill-halfpenny"
description: "Jill Halfpenny is an English actress who first garnered attention playing Nicola Dobson in the coming-of-age drama series Byker Grove (1989–1992). She became more widely known for her roles as Rebecca Hopkins on the soap opera Coronation Street (1999–2000), Kate Mitchell on the soap opera EastEnders (2002–2005), and Izzie Redpath in Waterloo Road (2006–2007). Her other notable credits include Babylon (2014), In the Club (2014–2016), Humans (2015), Three Girls (2017), Liar (2017–2020), Dark Money (2019), The Drowning (2021), and The Long Shadow (2023). She won the second series of the television dance contest Strictly Come Dancing in 2004."
tagline: "British actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/szVXFuNErYiyFZfdSroDaUGIwpy.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1975-07-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.53073466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355163/"
    handle:    "nm0355163"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Halfpenny"
    title: "Jill Halfpenny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "چيل هالفپينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Halfpenny"
    title: "Jill Halfpenny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Halfpenny"
    title: "Jill Halfpenny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%BE%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "جیل هیپنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%99"
    title: "ג'יל האפפני"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Halfpenny"
    title: "Jill Halfpenny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Halfpenny"
    title: "Jill Halfpenny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Хафпенни, Джилл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Halfpenny"
    title: "Jill Halfpenny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Halfpenny"
    title: "Jill Halfpenny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4409080"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/215849"
    title: "Jill Halfpenny"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump