Who is Sarah Hadland on BBC Strictly Come Dancing 2024?

Actress Sarah Hadland says she's ready for the "glitz, glam and glitter" of Strictly Come Dancing - especially as it's the BBC show's 20th year. The award-winning performer is one of 15 celebrities ready to hit the dancefloor in the run-up to Christmas.

Sarah is best known as comedian Miranda Hart’s best friend Stevie Sutton in semi-autobiographical BBC comedy Miranda. And you might have seen her in ITV sitcom The Job Lot as Trish Collingwood, the nervous and lovelorn manager of a job centre.

The 53-year-old's CV also includes appearances in the Daniel Craig-starring James Bond film Quantum Of Solace, the comedy film Magicians and comedy Learners starring David Tennant. Her other credits include Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans, Comedy Central sitcom Brotherhood and BBC drama series The Moonstone.

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Sarah was born in London on May 15, 1971, and grew up in Cheshire, attending Wilmslow High School. Her mother was a teacher and her father a businessman, who met when they worked briefly at Harrods.

Her parents split up when she was 11, which she told the Times was a "complete shock". While living in Wilmslow she performed with the Scamps youth group for two years before leaving home at 16 and heading to London, where she has lived ever since.

She trained in musical theatre London's Laine Theatre Arts College in Epsom, and was dancing in the West End musicals Cats and Grease by 19. She longed to move into acting but told the Observer: “I hadn’t been to university or drama school. I was told a gazillion times ‘You will not be an actress.’”

She said she wiped musicals from her CV, did fringe theatre and bit parts in The Bill and Casualty, with her career doing