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Actor Bios
Olivia Hallinan
Playing Kim
Olivia Hallinan has taken part in over 100 productions since the age of ten. She is the youngest of four sisters and grew up in Hounslow, west London. Her first big role was playing alongside Cilla Black in the 1991 production of Robin, Prince of Sherwood, at the Piccadilly Theatre in London. Since then, she has starred in five stage productions, three films and more than ten television hit shows including The Bill, Holby City, Murder in Suburbia, ad the lead role in Girls in Love. Her mother, who runs a Saturday drama school, tried to distract her from becoming an actress; but Olivia's desire couldn't be contained. She started training at her mum's school at the age of 11, and she hasn't looked back since. She was still at college when she landed the part of Kim, and as she explained after she was given the part - after five auditions in London - 'I was amazed to get it, you just think, why me?'. It was her agent who found the part in the first place, and she will be hoping it is the gateway to the big time she dreams of.
Lenora Crichlow
Playing Sugar
Prior to landing the part of Sugar, Lenora Crichlow had been in Bella and the Boys, alongside Billie Piper. She had also been in a number of episodes of The Bill, before landing the title, but unusually, not most important, role in Sugar Rush. She can also be seen in the limited release film Wilderness, in which her name is second in the cast list on IMDB, meaning that many fans of Sugar Rush will be eager to see the film.
Sarah-Jane Potts
Playing Saint
It seems few Sugar Rush fans are familiar with Sarah-Jane Potts' career, and by the looks of things neither is Wikipedia! However, she has been in Kinky Boots and Breaking Dawn, and has had parts in episodes of Children's Ward, Peak Practice, NYPD Blue, as well as Dalziel and Pascoe.
Sara Stewart
Playing Stella
Born in Edinburgh and grew up in London via the US, Sara Stewart attended The Central School of Speech and Drama. She has played a variety of characters; classical tragic heroines like 'Natalya Petrovna' in Turgenyev's Month in the Country for the RSC; Gwyneth Paltrow's overbearing sister in 'Proof' for its London premiere; as well as more comical characters like Stella. She has recently had parts in Mayo, alongside Alistair McGowan, and in two topical Channel Four programmes; The Road to Guantanamo, where she played an interrogator, and A Very Social Secretary, where she played Cherie Blair's style guru Carole Caplin . Her profile on IMDB also says she lives in Twickenham with her husband, two children, and two dogs - she is a devoted Italian Spinone dog owner, and enjoys long walks in her local parks. She also holds dual British-American nationality, as her parents were from the other side of the Atlantic. Finally, she stands at 177cm tall, equating at 5 feet, and 9.5 inches!
Richard Lumsden
Playing Nathan
Richard Lumsden trained at the Guildford School of Acting, graduating in 1986. He currently plays Nathan in Sugar Rush, but has had a number of roles throughout his career.
Leading roles include Colin in three series of Is It Legal? for ITV, Henry in Wonderful You (ITV), Foggy in two series of First Of The Summer Wine, Charles in All About Me (where he played an eco-friendly neighbour, actually not that unlike Nathan!), Nutter in The Sharp End, and Roger in The House That Jack Built (all BBC). Other TV work includes The Croydon Poisonings, Love Soup, Hornblower, People Like Us, Dangerfield, Coogan's Run, Nelson's Column, Casualty, Chalk, Doctors, Waterfront Beat, Celeb, Brittas Empire, One Foot In The Grave and Hardware.
On radio he plays Ray in Clare in the Community. Films include Sense and Sensibility, The Avengers, Room To Rent, Silent Cry, Gospel Of John and Attila The Hun.
He performed his own one-man musical play We Could Be Heroes at the Bridewell Theatre in 2004. His repertory theatre work at Stoke-on-Trent and Basingstoke include Master Harold & The Boys, title role in Hamlet, As You Like It, King Lear, A Trip To Scarborough, Amadeus, Juno And The Paycock, Far From The Madding Crowd, Having A Ball, Roche in Rat, as well as In The Skull at Theater Exchange, Minneapolis USA, and John Thorpe in Northanger Abbey at Greenwich.
His writing work includes a 7-hour drama Wonderful You for ITV (co-written with Chris Niel) and three verse plays for Radio 4: John Dodd Gets Taken For A Ride (Lumsden was nominated for the BBC’s Iverson award for new writing), A Good Place For Fishing with Anne Reid and Man in the Moon with Tom Courtenay [The Guardian and Daily Telegraph's radio Pick-of-the-Week]. Performed readings of his play Skeletons have taken place at Soho Theatre and The Venue in London.
He has composed music for TV and theatre including a full musical score for Alice In Wonderland at the New Victoria Theatre in Stoke, title music for The Morning Show (BBC) and incidental music for Greg Wise' BBC documentary about the life of Jack Good. He has released two CDs with his highly dedicated band Henry Kissing Her - A Little of Who You Fancy (1996) and Pull (2006), and also released a CD of piano music Concert From The Eyrie (2001).
* If anyone knows of any other info about these or other characters, please let me know either via this site's messageboard or by e-mailing sugarrushsite@aol.com.
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