Zoie Kennedy

Zoie Kennedy (born in 1977 in Weobley, Herefordshire, England) is an English television and theatre actress. Her first known TV appearance was as a WPC in This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. Shortly after this followed the role of news reporter Polly Grantham in Emmerdale and Staff Nurse Meryl Taylor in ITV's The Royal from 2002–2006. After The Royal she played pregnant Claudia Wheeler in Holby City. Kennedy now lives in London with her composer husband, Desmond O'Connor, and their two children. She is Artistic Director of the multi-award-winning Twice Shy Theatre and an International storyteller, co founding The Shadow Travellers with Eleanor Buchan. She is also a community choir leader, writer, director and puppeteer alongside her acting and voiceover work.