Sharlene Whyte

Actress

May 19, 1976 (50 years)

Nottingham, England, UK

Biography

Sharlene Natasha Whyte (born 19 May 1976) is an English actress who is best known for playing Jenny Edwards in The Story of Tracy Beaker and Adanna Lawal, the Head of Pastoral Care, in the sixth series of Waterloo Road. She trained at RADA from 1996 till 1999.

Filmography

6.2

Casualty

Javine 'Jay' Adams

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

7.7

Spooks

Naomi Wilson

Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

7.1

Waterloo Road

Adanna Lawal

Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023. At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?

6.5

The Story of Tracy Beaker

Jenny Edwards

Tracy Beaker is a 10-year-old girl who has been placed in a children's home. Tracy makes new friends along the way and causes mischief wherever she goes.

6.9

Sherwood

Pam Bottomley

Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.

6.5

My Hero

Arnie's Customer

My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the United States it was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia.

6.9

Small Axe

Agnes Smith

An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.

6.9

Critical

Mrs. Waters

The Major Trauma Centre is a state-of-the-art unit which treats only the most gravely ill or seriously injured. Whether that patient lives or dies is determined by knife-edge decisions and procedures, but can the diverse team of medical professionals knit together and rise to the challenge? Our team hold a life in their hands but in every case they face the agonisingly real fear that it could slip through their fingers.

7.6

Lockwood & Co.

Chat Show Host

A girl with extraordinary psychic abilities joins two gifted teen boys at a small ghost-hunting agency to fight the many deadly spirits haunting London.

6.5

The Witchfinder

Catherine

A failing witchfinder transports a suspected witch across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever.

4.9

Mr Loverman

Donna Walker

Londoner Barrington Jedidiah Walker, Barry to his mates, is a seventy-four-year-old, Antiguan-born, exuberant Hackney personality, renowned for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. Carmel, his wife of 50 years, senses that Barry has been cheating on her with other women. Little does she know what’s happening: a secret, passionate affair with his male best friend and soulmate, Morris. Now facing the final chapter of his life, Barry has big choices that will force his whole family to question their futures.

7.3

The Doll Factory

Madame

Iris dreams of being an artist. Silas is a taxidermist who longs to be revered. Louis is a painter searching for his next muse. As their lives collide a love triangle appears to bloom. But this will morph into a story of dark obsession.

1.0

Number One Fan

Mel

TV host Lucy is saved from an attack by fan Donna. Lucy invites her to a show taping, but Donna's subsequent behavior becomes increasingly obsessive and concerning.

6.8

Stephen

Doreen Lawrence

Follows the ongoing struggle by Doreen and Neville Lawrence to achieve justice and how a detective, DCI Clive Driscoll - working closely with the Lawrences - puts together an investigation that finally - more than 18 years after his death - secures the convictions of two of the gang who committed the murder of Stephen.

N/A

Secrets and Words

Cathy Hall

Secrets and Words is a British drama television series shown on BBC One. Each episode is a story on the theme of adult literacy.

6.7

The Debt

Leona Tilding

An ex-robber reluctantly agrees to do one last job in order to protect his family.

6.3

Perfect 10

Gemma

14-year-old Leigh lives with her neglectful father on the outskirts of Brighton. She’s a talented gymnast, training hard for her first competition. When an older half-brother appears at her house one night, Leigh’s lonely existence is altered.

5.1

Second Coming

Bernie

A married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — with an immaculate conception.

N/A

The Arrival

Edna Brown

A young Jamaican woman arrives to Britain in 1962 to start a new life with her husband, but she carries a secret that could jeopardize everything.

6.5

ear for eye

US Mom

From front rooms, Black families, friends, students and older generations navigate British and American society today.