Emma Rigby Biography

She is best known for playing the role of Hannah Ashworth in long-running soap opera Hollyoaks and Gemma Roscoe in BBC One drama series Prisoners' Wives which was broadcast in 2012.
Rigby was born in St Helens Merseyside and has one older sister Charlotte. She attended De La Salle high school in St Helens but left in 2006 to focus on her role as Hannah Ashworth in Hollyoaks. Despite her busy filming schedule in Hollyoaks Rigby received nine A* in her GCSE exam results.
Rigby's first acting role was as Lisa Gunstone in Born and Bred. Before getting the role as Hannah Ashworth in Hollyoaks she had a few minor roles and appeared in popular soap Brookside as Elena Jones. As well as acting Rigby has also done some modelling work. In 2005 Rigby got the role as Hannah Ashworth in Hollyoaks at the age of 15. She was given praise and recognition for her anorexia storyline in which she was nominated for various awards.
In November 2008 Rigby announced she was leaving Hollyoaks to pursue other projects and would remain on-screen until June 2009. However after meetings with soap bosses it was later confirmed that Rigby had extended her contract for an additional six months and would remain on-screen until February 2010. Her final episode was broadcast on 11 February 2010.

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