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3	Hannah Louise Spearritt (born 1 April 1981 in Great Yarmouth, England) is an English actress and former pop star.
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5	She got her start on the stage, performing with the National Youth Theatre in productions of ''Annie'', ''Bugsy Malone'', ''Pendragon'' and ''Tin Pan Ali''. She also managed to get appearances on ''Series/BluePeter'' and a MadeForTVMovie called ''The Cater Street Hangman''. But that's probably not what you know her for.
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7	Hannah rose to international fame as part of the musical septet Music/SClub7. As part of the group, she released four albums and starred in four seasons of a TV spin-off, four additional {{Made For TV Movie}}s to tie in with the series, a feature film (playing a fictionalised version of herself), and a documentary series about the group's search for their individual endangered animals (Hannah was the only one not to find hers -- the Monk Seal). S Club decided to split in 2003, but Hannah continued her acting, and has had some of the most solo success of the group.
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9	She landed significant roles in ''Film/SeedOfChucky'' and ''Film/AgentCodyBanks 2: Destination London'', but eventually found her feet as Abby Maitland in the sci-fi series ''{{Series/Primeval}}''. She has also made appearances on ''{{Series/Eastenders}}'' (of which she had been a big fan beforehand), and of course in the occasional reunion with S Club 7.
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11	!!Selected Filmography:
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13	* ''The Cater Street Hangman'' (1998)
14	* Music/SClub7:
15	** ''Miami 7'' (1999)
16	** ''LA 7'' (2000)
17	** ''Hollywood 7'' (2001)
18	** ''Viva S Club'' (2002)
19	** ''S Club: Seeing Double'' (2003)
20	* ''Film/AgentCodyBanks 2: Destination London'' (2004)
21	* ''Film/SeedOfChucky'' (2004)
22	* ''{{Series/Primeval}}'' (2007-2011)
23	* ''{{Series/Casualty}}'' (2016)
24	* ''{{Series/Eastenders}}'' (2017-present)
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26	Her uncle is also Eddie Spearritt, a footballer who played for Ispwich, Brighton, Carlisle and Gillingham.
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28	!!Tropes associated with her work:
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30	* ACupAngst: She's become a spokesperson for PetitePride after health problems caused by getting breast implants.
31	* ActorAllusion:
32	** In the sitcom ''Blessed'' she plays a member of a GirlGroup.
33	** In the Season 4 premiere of ''Primeval'', Abby plays S Club's "Don't Stop Moving" to distract a dinosaur.
34	* BillingDisplacement:[[invoked]] She is billed second in the film ''Utopia'', despite being less prominent than the other Afghan characters.
35	* BoyishShortHair: She sported short hair for the first three seasons of ''Primeval'' playing the tomboyish Abby. Averted when she had short hair for the ''Hollywood 7'' period (presumably because Jo was already filling TheLadette role). Hannah decided to grow her hair out after Season 3 - which gets justified by Abby spending a whole year trapped in the Cretaceous Period - and Abby got a slight GirlinessUpgrade as a result.
36	* BreakUpBreakout: In terms of acting, she's had the most success of S Club - though Jon did become a West End star, and Rachel had some solo success as well.
37	* ContractualPurity:[[invoked]] As she had a family friendly image during her time with S Club 7, she attempted to shake it off by taking a role in the horror film ''Film/SeedOfChucky'' and providing a more {{Fanservice}}y image in ''Primeval''.
38	* CostumeBacklash:[[invoked]] When shown a clip from the ''Sunshine'' album and ''Hollywood 7'' period of her time in S Club 7, she cringed at the short hair she sported and said "way too short".
39	* CreatorBacklash:[[invoked]] She's been rather open about the fact that she'd like to not go back to music, admitting she's not much of a singer, and she much prefers acting. Whenever S Club have reunited, the only time she was part of it was for the BBC Children in Need telethon in 2015. She was planning to take part in a reunion in 2023, but dropped out over sadness at Paul Cattermole's sudden death just weeks after it was announced.
40	* ADayInTheLimelight: She gets to sing lead vocals on the S Club songs "Dance Dance Dance" and "Hey Kitty Kitty", and shares lead vocals with Tina on "Stand By You".
41	* TheDitz: She portrayed herself as one for the S Club TV series.
42	* DyeHard:[[invoked]] Naturally blonde but had platinum blonde hair for ''Primeval''. The dye ruined her hair and she had to go brown briefly. She's also had pink hair for her time in ''Casualty''.
43	* IAmNotSpock: She joked in an interview for Netflix that she sometimes felt as though her full name was 'Hannah S Club'.
44	--> "In terms of like being forever known as being part of S Club 7, no it's not a problem."
45	* IdenticalStranger: Emma Bunton from Music/TheSpiceGirls, ironically (as both were bands managed by the same producers Simon Fuller and 19 Entertainment).
46	* PlayingAgainstType:[[invoked]] Having either played ditzes or {{Action Girl}}s, she went against type by playing a drug dealer in ''Casualty''.
47	* RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle:[[invoked]]
48	** For the ''S Club: Seeing Double'' movie, she has red in her hair. Before filming, she'd spontaneously coloured the ends red, and director Nigel Dick liked it, and had her keep it for the film.
49	** Abby's hair is much shorter and spikier in Season 3 of ''Primeval'' because the bleach ruined Hannah's hair sometime after Season 2, first requiring her to go brown and then cutting it short.
50	** She also grew her hair out when ''Primeval'' was first cancelled and so Abby has long hair for the first time in the series in the fourth (it was UnCancelled and picked up by the BBC), which was easily explained by having her trapped in the Cretaceous period with Connor for a year. She wore extensions to make them look wilder for the first couple of episodes, and then removed them to show that Abby had adjusted to returning.
51	* RomanceOnTheSet:[[invoked]]
52	** She dated fellow bandmate Paul Cattermole while in Music/SClub7.
53	** She was engaged to Andrew Lee Potts during ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' - while their characters were an item too.
54	* TomHanksSyndrome: In TheNewTens, she has moved away from comedies and sci-fi to star in {{Soap Opera}}s as well as her turn in the Afghan film ''Utopia'' - a gritty drama about a Muslim woman who tries to get IVF, and was nearly an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

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