Lisa: As a kid I was always in and out of hospital. I was terribly accident prone and had various broken bones plus a whole range of childhood problems from adenoids to appendicitis. But I was an odd child, I loved hospitals. I even loved hospital food.
Lisa: (On wanting to become a nurse) I loved the way nurses were in the Royal Marsden. They were wonderful to my Mum and dealt with patients and relatives so well. It made me want to be like them.
Lisa: It's always very interesting getting a new script, I love it when you can't turn the page quick enough to find out what happens next. I've come to a few sticky ends in Spooks and Holby City, but I don't usually look to the end of a script to see what happens!
When she was a teenager Lisa had a crush on Boy George and even spent a whole day camped outside his house in London.
Lisa was diagnosed with the skin condition rosacea in 2005.
Lisa was head girl at her grammar school but she dropped out to follow a career in modelling in Paris.
Lisa has had two dramatic deaths on-screen: the first was in her role as Helen Flynn on Spooks in which her head was pushed into a deep fat fryer before she was shot. The second was in her role as Dr Victoria Merrick on Holby City in which she was murdered in one of the show's most memorable storylines.
Lisa was approached by a modelling scout when she was standing outside a tube station; the meeting led to a successful career as a teenage model at the age of 16.
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