Billie Piper

Billie Piper

Billie Paul Piper (born Leian Paul Piper; 22 September 1982)[1] is an English actress and former singer. She initially gained recognition as a singer after releasing her debut single "Because We Want To" at age 15, which made her the youngest female singer to enter the UK Singles Chart at number one; her follow-up single "Girlfriend" also entered at number one. In 1998, Piper released her debut studio album, Honey to the B, which was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Her second studio album, Walk of Life, was released in 2000 and spawned her third number one single, "Day & Night". In 2003, Piper announced that she had ended her music career to focus on acting.

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Piper appeared in the BBC One sci-fi series Doctor Who as Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor as a regular between 2005 and 2006, and additionally in 2008,[3] 2010, and 2013.[4] She starred as Belle de Jour in the drama series Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007–2011), as Brona Croft/Lily in the Showtime horror series Penny Dreadful (2014–2016), and as Karen Mars in Netflix Original series Collateral (2018), for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. Piper co-created and starred in the Sky Atlantic series I Hate Suzie (2020–present), for which she earned a BAFTA nomination for a Best Actress in 2021.

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Piper has starred in five plays since 2007 and won the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her performance in Yerma, described as a "generation's best".[5] She went on to win a total of six Best Actress awards for that one performance, including the Olivier Award, making Piper the only actor to have won six out of an available six Best Actress awards for a single performance.

Piper was born in Swindon, Wiltshire on 22 September 1982. Her first name, Leian, was legally changed to Billie on 25 April 1983 by her parents, Mandy Kent and Paul Piper.[6] She has one younger brother, Charley, and two younger sisters, Harley, and Elle.[7][8][9] She started dance classes at age five. Two years later, she started off in soft-drink commercials for American TV before appearing as an extra in the 1996 film Evita, starring Madonna.[10] She attended Bradon Forest School in Purton, near Swindon,[11] but left at around the age of 12[12] after winning a scholarship to the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London.

Piper's debut album Honey to the B was released immediately afterwards, and entered and peaked at number 14 on the UK Albums Chart, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom alone along with a platinum certification, and a double-platinum certification in New Zealand, where it peaked at number three on the New Zealand Albums Chart. However, Honey to the B found limited success in other territories, such as Australia, where it entered and peaked at number 31 on the ARIA Albums Chart despite the success of "Honey to the Bee", and in the US it went almost completely unnoticed, peaking at number 17 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.

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