Persephone Swales-Dawson is a British actress. She is known for her role as Nico Blake in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks that she played regularly from 2014 to 2016, reprising the role briefly in 2018 and 2020.
Persephone Swales-Dawson | |
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| Born | Rochdale, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2014–present |
| Known for | Hollyoaks (2014–2016, 2018, 2020) |
Early life
Swales-Dawson was born in Rochdale and grew up in Yorkshire. She attended Todmorden High School.[1] She began acting in school and joined the youth group at Hebden Bridge Little Theatre (HBLT). In 2013, she successfully auditioned for the Lowry Young Actors Company in Salford.[2] She later enrolled in classes at Mindful Acting.[3]
Career
In 2014,[4] Swales-Dawson joined the cast of the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as the murderous teen villain Nico Blake, whom she would play until the character's supposed death in 2016.[5] For her performance, she won Best Bad Girl at the Inside Soap Awards that year. In a surprise, she returned to the soap in 2018 to reprise her role as Nico, but the character was killed off the same year. She then reprised the role in 2020 in a series of hallucinations.
Swales-Dawson made her professional stage debut when she played Jade Harcourt on the 2019 UK tour of The House on Cold Hill with Joe McFadden and Rita Simons.[6][7] She also appeared in the television film Risk Takers.
