Kellie Bright (born Kelly Denise Bright, 1 July 1976) is an English actress. She is known for playing Linda Carter in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, for which she won the 2015 British Soap Awards for Best Actress and Best Dramatic Performance. Her other television roles include Joanna Burrows in The Upper Hand (1990–96), Cassie Tyler in Bad Girls (2002) and Joan Trotter in Rock & Chips (2010–11). In 2015, she was the runner-up in the 13th series of the BBC One show Strictly Come Dancing.

Filmography

• 2012Ashes — Lisa
• 2012Junkyard
• One Night — Dawn
• Vera — Vanessa Barnes
• 2010Come Rain Come Shine — Joanne Mitchell
• 2010Rock & Chips — Joan Trotter
• Rock & Chips — Joan Trotter
• Horne & Corden
• 2009The Catherine Tate Show: Nan's Christmas Carol — Kelly
• 2006Imagine Me & You — Terri
• Vital Signs — Yvonne
• Jericho — WPC Penny Collins
• 2005Kinky Boots — Jeannie
• New Tricks
• 2002Ali G Indahouse — Julie
• The House That Jack Built — Lisa Squire
• 2000Cor, Blimey! — Viola
• Nature Boy — Katy
• The Thing about Vince — Sally
• Bad Girls — Cassie Tyler
• 1997Blackrock — Leesha
• Silent Witness
• 1992Beauty and the Beast — Beauty (voice)
• The Upper Hand — Joanna Burrows
• Maid Marian and Her Merry Men — Child
• EastEnders — Linda Carter
• T-Bag
• The Bill

Appearances as themselves (5)

• The Weakest Link — Self - Participant
• Celebrity Juice — Self
• 2007T-Bag: The Reunion Documentary — Self
• Pebble Mill — Self
• Panorama — Self