
Age: 22
female
Asha Banks is a young British actress and singer based in London. Asha has extensive theatre credits, and has recently finished filming her first feature film, The Magic Flute in which she plays the female lead part of Princess Pamina. Asha made her professional acting debut at the age of 8 years old in the London West End show Les Miserables (at the Queen's Theatre, now the Sondheim Theatre). Since then she has played principal parts in a further five West End and UK productions. Most recently, in 2019/20, Asha portrayed the lead part of Lisa James for the Royal Shakespeare Company's musical production of David Walliams' The Boy in the Dress, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon directed by Gregory Doran, with a book by Mark Ravenhill, and music from pop partnership Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers. Asha sings Lisa James' main musical ballad 'When Things Fall Apart" on the original cast album of the musical, released in 2020. Prior to this, Asha has played parts such as Violet Beauregarde in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Duffy in the UK tour of Annie the Musical directed by Nikolai Foster, and the Parsons Girl in the multi-award-winning and Olivier-nominated play 1984, directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan for the Almeida theatre, which then transferred to the Playhouse theatre, London, taking Asha with it. Asha also portrayed Pandora Braithwaite in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 ¾ at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, for which she earned outstanding reviews. "Asha Banks gives a stellar performance" said The Times, and "Asha Banks on press night - very funny and a cracking singer, surely a future star" from London Timeout magazine while The Telegraph said she was "the perfect mix of poise, aloofness and vitality". The Stage newspaper said: "Asha Banks delivers an astonishingly mature, witty and articulate performance" and London Box office: "Asha Banks already has a considerable record in west end musicals... she has the looks, voice and charisma to be a formidable future leading lady" while The Arts Desk said: "A performance of sensational composure and accomplishment by Asha Banks: she's in danger of singing everyone off the stage." Libby Purves (The Times / TheatreCat) called her performance "outstanding" and the British Theatre Guide described her Pandora as "a teen dream, if ever there was one". Asha Banks had been said to be working with the Brazilian film director and music artist Divan Braga, but that wasn't confirmed. Asha is playing the part of Princess Pamina in the musical feature film The Magic Flute, a modern retelling of Mozart's popular opera, produced by Roland Emmerich's Centropolis Entertainment and Flute Film, and directed by Florian Sigl. The film also stars Iwan Rheon and Jack Wolfe and some of the world's most renowned opera stars. The Magic Flute is set for release in 2022.

Asha Banks

Kate Worthington
for Kate Worthington in Blackmoore Movie
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Kate Worthington knows her heart and she knows she will never marry. Her plan is to travel to India instead—if only to find peace for her restless spirit and to escape the family she abhors. But Kate’s meddlesome mother has other plans. She makes a bargain with Kate: India, yes, but only after Kate has secured—and rejected—three marriage proposals. Kate journeys to the stately manor of Blackmoore determined to fulfill her end of the bargain and enlists the help of her dearest childhood friend, Henry Delafield. But when it comes to matters of love, bargains are meaningless and plans are changeable. There on the wild lands of Blackmoore, Kate must face the truth that has kept her heart captive. Will the proposal she is determined to reject actually be the one thing that will set her heart free? Set in Northern England in 1820, Blackmoore is a Regency romance that tells the story of a young woman struggling to learn how to follow her heart. It is Wuthering Heights meets Little Women with a delicious must-read twist

