Lauren Drummond

Lauren Drummond is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Mika Grainger in Waterloo Road, Chantelle Lane in Holby City, Suzie Chapman in DI Ray for ITV and Faye Clark in The Royal.

Early life and education Lauren Drummond was born and brought up in Cheadle Hulme in Stockport.

She attended Bramhall High School before completing a performing arts course at Mid Cheshire College. Drummond also studied at Yale University’s Summer Conservatory for Actors and a Laine Theatre Arts Workshop in Manchester.

Drummond is a third cousin of her former Holby City co-star Tina Hobley.

Career Drummond began her acting career with small roles in Coronation Street, Grange Hill and Heartbeat, however from 2006 until 2008, Drummond played Mika Grainger in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road. She would later return to the series in 2024, appearing in the season finale of the shows thirteenth series. Drummond would go on to tour the UK in a stage production of Billy Liar.

From 2009 until 2011, Drummond played Faye Clark in The Royal, before moving on to join the cast of Holby City as new nurse Chantelle Lane. She appeared in over 100 episodes of Holby City before leaving the show in 2013. She was part of the shows 2013 Children In Need special featuring Catherine Tate. Drummond returned to the role of Lane for a single episode in June 2016. She had previously appeared as a one-off character, Hannah Sharpe, on the show in 2008.

In 2014, she toured the UK in a production of J.B. Priestley’s classic play Dangerous Corner.

In 2019, Drummond appeared as Jane Bestwick in ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

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Television Year Title Role Notes 2001 Coronation Street Christie Wells Guest role; 2 episodes Doctors Kirsty Matthews Series 3; Episode 2: "A Twist of Fate" 2005 Grange Hill Lucy Series 28; Episode 18 2005–2006 Heartbeat Jane Black Supporting role; 7 episodes 2006–2008, 2024 Waterloo Road Mika Grainger Regular role; 40 episodes 2006 Blue Murder Hayley Scott Series 3; Episode 1: "Steady Eddie" Doctors Amy Faulkner Series 8; Episode 42: "Daddy Cool" 2008 Charlotte Peel Series 9; Episode 208: "Out with the Bathwater" Holby City Hannah Sharpe Series 10; Episode 33: "Any Port in a Storm" Harley Street Lisa Series 1; Episode 2 2009 Casualty Bree Series 24; Episode 12: "Second Chance" 2009–2011 The Royal Student Nurse Faye Clark Supporting role; 8 episodes 2010 Doctors Sophie Stanyard Series 12; Episode 11: "Digging for Gold" 2011–2013, 2016 Holby City Chantelle Lane Regular role; 107 episodes 2013 Catherine Tate for Children in Need Children in Need special 2012 Pointless Celebrities Herself - Contestant (with Adam Astill) Series 3; Episode 11: "Daytime 1" 2016 Comedy Playhouse Receptionist Series 17; Episode 2: "Broken Biscuits" 2018 The Dumping Ground Hilde (Shaz) Series 6; Episode 1: "Jody on the Ropes" Unforgotten Kelly Jones Series 3; Episodes 1 & 2 Press Belle Hicks Mini-series; Episode 2: "Pure" 2019 Silent Witness Tamsin Nelson Series 22; Episode 1: "Two Spirits: Part 1" Coronation Street Jane Bestwick Recurring role; 5 episodes 2022 I Hate Suzie Georgina Kaplan Series 2; Episodes 1 & 3 2023 Hapless Sandy Series 2; Episode 2: "The Wedding Planner" 2024 DI Ray Suzie Chapman Series 2; Episodes 1–6