Amy Walsh returned to Emmerdale last night
Who is Emmerdale actress Amy Walsh?
Amy Walsh was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on March 27, 1987. Her Emmerdale character, Tracy, first appeared in the soap all the way back in July 2014, when she was introduced as Sam Dingle’s love interest. She came to the village after chatting with Sam via an adult chat line, and she ended up staying at Dingle Manor. However, her relationship with Sam didn’t last long – she conned him out of his money, ended up sleeping in a barn and then went on to work for Val Pollard at the B&B. Fast forward to 2016, and Tracy married David Metcalfe, played by Matthew Wolfenden before eventually falling for Nate Robinson with whom she welcomed a daughter named Frankie. But Emmerdale wasn’t Amy’s first job on the screen. Starting off her career as a child, she appeared as Emily in the short film Past Memoirs in 1995 but soapland only opened up to her in 2011. That year, she portrayed Jennifique McQueen in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks and its spin-off, Hollyoaks Later. As mentioned above, Amy made her Emmerdale debut in 2014 after auditioning for the role of Rachel Breckle which ultimately went to Gemma Oaten. Amy’s TV credits also include appearances in the ITV game show All Star Family Fortunes and the eighteenth series of Celebrity MasterChef. Since 2020, 36-year-old Amy has been romantically involved with former EastEnders star Toby-Alexander Smith. Their daughter Bonnie was born in December, 2021, and they announced their engagement in August, 2022.Who are Amy’s sisters, Kimblerley and Sally Walsh ?
Amy isn’t the only star in her family – her big sister is Girls Aloud singer Kimberley Walsh, and her oldest sister, Sally, also starred in Emmerdale. Sally was the first of the Walsh family to find TV fame when she appeared as Marlon Dingle’s troublemaker girlfriend Lyn Hutchinson from 1997 to 2000. She worked in film and television from the age of eight and joined Emmerdale as outspoken schoolgirl Lyn when she was 18. Kimberley became a member of Girls Aloud after auditioning for Popstars:The Rivals in 2002. The group went on to become one of Britain’s biggest-ever bands with 20 consecutive top ten singles, before splitting in 2013. Speaking exclusively to The Celeb Report Online, Amy said: “It was a bit like Fame in our house. “There are so many videos of us doing shows when we were kids. “Every morning before school Sally and Kimberley would rehearse their own little shows and my mum was a music teacher, so she’d be accompanying them on the piano. “When I first joined Emmerdale, me, my mum and Kimberley all sat together to watch and we had a little bit of a tea party, which was nice.”
Amy with her famous sisters Kimberley and Sally
