Martine McCutcheon was born May 14th, 1976 in Hackney, London and is a singer, television personality, and actress. By most accounts McCutcheon survived a tumultuous childhood with a drug addicted, abusive, and finally absentee father and a young, ill-equipped mother to become a rollicking and strong person. Her father would later be helpful in her career by selling unflattering stories to the tabloids, which, in the backwards world of entertainment helped keep her name in lights. McCutcheon managed to get training for a career in showbiz in spite of her home misery at the Italia Conti stage school on a scholarship. By age 12 she had a Kool-aid commercial, by 15 she was singing in a girl group called Milan. Real fame hit McCutcheon when she landed a role in long running BBC soap Eastenders. McCutcheons popularity on the show made her decide to leave for another try at pop stardom, a move that seemed to displease the Eastenders producer. The show killed off McCutcheons character in a highly watched episode which McCutcheon later complained about. Nonetheless, pop success has followed in the U.K. and other European countries including You Me & Us (1999) her first and most successful album. McCutcheon has also received a Laurence Olivier Award (2002) for her role as Eliza Doolittle and was Hugh Grants romantic leading lady in Love Actually (2003).
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