Zaraah Abrahams
TV Actress
Famous for her roles as Joanne Jackson on ITV's Coronation Street and Michaela White on the BBC's Waterloo Road, she is also notable for her participation in two seasons of the reality television talent contest Dancing on Ice.
Before beginning her screen acting career, she trained at London's Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
She was cast as Clarissa in the 2012 movie Payback Season.
She and her two younger siblings grew up in South London, England, as the children of a Barbadian-Iraqi mother and a Jamaican father.
From 2003 to 2005, she co-starred with Olivia Hallinan in the English teen drama Girls in Love.