Natalie Cassidy
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Natalie Ann Cassidy (born 13 May 1983) is an English actress and television personality. She portrayed the role of Sonia Fowler in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1993–2007, 2010–2011, 2014–2025), for which she won the award for Best Actress at the British Soap Awards and the TV Quick Awards in 2001. Her other television roles include The Catherine Tate Show (2006), Psychoville (2009), Mandy (2020), Motherland (2021) and Boarders (2025). Outside of acting, Cassidy has fronted the shows Natalie Cassidy's Diet Secrets (2008) and Natalie Cassidy's Real Britain (2009) for the BBC, as well as an E4 series Natalie Cassidy: Becoming Mum (2010) and has hosted the podcasts Life with Nat (2024–present) and Off the Telly (2024–2025), the latter of which was alongside Joanna Page. She has also appeared as a contestant on several reality television shows. She took part in the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2009 and the ninth series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2012. In 2025, she appeared on the sixth series of The Masked Singer and won the fifth series of Cooking with the Stars, as well as fronting What's the Big Deal: Britain's Best Buys and Natalie Cassidy Learning to Care.