Bianca Hendrickse-Spendlove

Bianca Hendrickse-Spendlove is a British actress and journalist. In 2010, she joined the cast of the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as regular character Texas Longford. She enjoyed being on the soap opera and saw it her as her university experience. In 2013, Hendrickse-Spendlove chose to leave the soap to pursue other acting roles and Texas was killed-off in a whodunit storyline. Hendrickse-Spendlove has since guest-starred in Doctors, Holby City, London Kills and Impact of Murder, and worked as a producer assistant for the 2023 short film Rose.

Life and career Bianca Hendrickse-Spendlove is the daughter of actors Rob Spendlove and Sandy Hendrickse, and she has two paternal younger half-siblings.

In May 2010, it was announced that Hendrickse-Spendlove had joined the cast of the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as 20-year-old Texas Longford. Hendrickse-Spendlove was one of nine new cast members aged 17–31 to be announced to join the soap opera, as part of new executive producer Paul Marquess's shake-up of the soap. Texas introduced as the older sister of established character India Longford (Beth Kingston), who is initially not happy to see her. Hendrickse-Spendlove revealed that leaving Hollyoaks was a hard decision and felt sad as she would miss her colleagues. She hoped that she would be able to do some theatre work whilst also continuing in television, explaining, "I'm hoping to try everything I can, see what's out there and explore the world!" The actress' final episode as Texas aired on 13 May 2013, when it was revealed that Will was the one who pushed Texas out of the window.

In 2014, Hendrickse-Spendlove portrayed Cassie McLennan, a student selling an illegal tan product, in rival soap opera Doctors in the episode broadcast on 7 April of that year. The following year, she portrayed Chloe Whithers in an episode of the 17th series of Holby City. In 2017, Hendrickse-Spendlove interviewed actress Kim Cattrall for The Carousel. That same year, she appeared in an episode of Impact of Murder. She guest-starred on Doctors again as pregnant Chloe Taylor-Smith in the episode originally airing on 16 April 2020. In 2019, Hendrickse-Spendlove was also a producer assistant and set dresser for the short film Rose, which premiered at the 2023 Cheltenham International Film Festival.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 2010–13 Hollyoaks Texas Longford Regular role 2014 Doctors Cassie McLennan Guest role (1 episode) 2015 Holby City Chloe Whithers Guest role (1 episode, series 17) 2019 London Kills Olivia Jarvis Guest role (1 episode) 2019 Impact of Murder Kayleigh Guest role (1 episode) 2020 Doctors Chloe Taylor-Smith Guest role (1 episode)