Lenora Crichlow

Lenora Isabella Crichlow (born 4th January 1985, Westminster, London, England) is a British actress.

Crichlow's father Frank is from the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean and once ran the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill which was frequented by stars such as Jimi Hendrix and Diana Ross.

Her mother is English. Her younger sister, Amandla Crichlow, is also an actress and has appeared in Prime Suspect: The Final Act. She trained and worked with the YoungBlood Theatre Company, Lenora Crichlow made her first film appearance in the small-budget UK horror film Wilderness, released in August 2006.

She is best known for appearing in the UK TV police drama The Bill, and starring as Maria 'Sugar' Sweet in Channel 4's adaptation of the Julie Burchill novel Sugar Rush, which won the 2006 International Emmy Award in the 'Children And Young People' category. She appeared in "Gridlock", a 2007 episode of Doctor Who. Crichlow appeared in BBC One's feature length drama Kiss of Death in 2008, starring alongside Danny Dyer.

In November 2008 the BBC announced she had been cast as Annie, a ghost in a flat share with a vampire and a werewolf, in the BBC Three series Being Human, replacing Andrea Riseborough who had played the character in the pilot. The six episode series began on 25 January 2009.

In 2009 she will star in the BBC series Material Girl.