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Olivia Hallinan - Biography
Olivia Hallinan is very talented British Actress and starred as Ellie Allard in Girls in Love, Kim Daniels in Sugar Rush (along side Lenora Crichlow) and Laura Timmins in the BBC drama Lark Rise to Candleford.

Birthday: 20 January 1984

Height 5' 6"

Olivia Hallinan has appeared in several popular television programmes including The Bill, Holby City, Torchwood, Casualty and Trial and Retribution. Hallinan began training as a professional actress at the age of eleven, attending her mother's Saturday Drama School 'All Expressions' in Teddington. Olivia Hallinan is the second youngest of four sisters.

I will use this blog to write articles and publish information about Olivia Hallinan and anything that may be relevant or related to this subject. If it is just pictures you are looking for, and I don't blame you by the way, Olivia Hallinan is a beautiful young woman, try Google image search. It is a waste of time looking of nude pictures or photo's as to my knowledge they do not exist for this celebrity. There are plenty of video clips you can watch for free on video website YouTube of Olivia Hallinan, mostly as Kim in Sugar Rush. Sugar Rush series 1 and 2 is currently available on DVD.

Kim Daniels in Sugar Rush
Sugar Rush is a Channel 4's drama series about a teenage lesbian called Kim Daniels. In the series her dysfunctional family moved to Brighton, on the south coast of England. Olivia Hallinan’s character Kim, bumps into and inadvertently assists a shoplifter, Maria Sweet a.k.a Sugar (Lenora Crichlow). The girls are like chalk and cheese, but circumstantially become best friends. The series focussed not only on Kim coming to terms with her sexual orientation but also the trials and tribulations of adolescence. The series had a cutting edge and was accompanied by a clever use of music in the soundtrack. Songs by Nouvelle Vague such as Teenage Kicks gave the series a seductive quality. It quickly became a cult series with a huge following of fans who still feel bewildered and disappointed by Channel 4’s decision to scrap the series.

Laura Timmins in Lark Rise to Candleford
Olivia Hallinan fans did not have to wait too long to see her back in action, she plays 16 year old naïve post office worker Laura Timmins in this BBC drama series. Olivia Hallinan does not narrate the voice over, as she did with Sugar Rush and Girls in Love. Sarah Lancashire narrates the series as adult Laura. Lark Rise to Candleford is a light-hearted period costume drama set in the 19^th Century. It is an adaptation of the semi autobiographical books by author Flora Thompson who grew up in the Oxfordshire countryside. It is worlds apart from Sugar Rush, overall a much more placid and docile piece of television. Julia Sawalha is convincing in her role as the proprietor of Candleford post office and forge. Laura is played excellently by Olivia Hallinan who has a real skill for capturing youthful exuberance in her performances.

The good news is that the BBC has commissioned another series of Lark Rise to Candleford. This does not automatically mean that Olivia Hallinan will be in the new series but considering that she plays the central character it would be a reasonable assumption that Olivia Hallinan will remain as Laura Timmins. As soon as I know anything more I will post it here. Well, that is quite a large welcome to my Olivia Hallinan website. I hope you stay and have a look around. Thank you for visiting my website.

Combing over the BBC press release regarding the second series it does appear that they have secured the full cast for the next series. The main characters all seem to be listed for the second series. It will be filmed in the summer of 2008. The sets used in the series were built using disused farm. They actually built both the hamlet and town from scratch making for a very impressive set design. The first series was disrupted by the severe weather during the summer of 2007. Oxfordshire was one of the areas severely affected by the flooding which devastated large areas of the country.

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