Charlene Aldridge

Charlene Aldridge (birth name: Charlene Rhoda Eliza Titley) was born in Walsall, West Midlands. She grew up in East London and has 2 children. As a child, she was fascinated and drawn to the art of acting and recited characters through her love of film. Her late grandfather, who raised her for the first 6 years of her life, shared that same love for films and saw she had a natural talent for acting. Before he died he encouraged Charlene to pursue it on a professional level. Despite her humble beginnings, she remained passionate, dedicated and hard working to Further a career in performing arts in any way she could, taking part in every school play, practicing characters and accents in her spare time and reading books. Charlene then got a paper round job and a cleaning job at the age of 13 to pay for a drama workshop for kids which she would attend every weekend, when she grew too old for the workshop, she went on and started out as a film and TV extra where she gained knowledge of how things are run on a set observing and asking as many questions as she could. After years of hard graft and some challenging life experiences, Charlene featured in episode 2 of the first series of "the reluctant Landlord" starring Romesh Ranganathan then featured in episode 6 of "Turn up Charlie" as the A and R scout starring Idris Elba. Charlene then went on to make her own short film "Broken Promises" in 2018 where she won Best Actress and best short when it was submitted into festivals, something she's very proud she done in doing on and off camera through what she learned in the background work. Charlene has now made progress in the film industry performing along side Zara Phythian in "Tribal Get out alive" which has been distributed globally on all digital platforms where she plays the role of "Jen Skye". She has obtained further roles since, and has landed her first Lead role in feature film "Losing faith" alongside Patrick Bergin who starred in Hollywood's "sleeping with the enemy" with Julia Roberts which she is still filming. She has a hardworking disciplined mindset and continues to use that to go further learning more as she goes on in the industry from every role to add to her craft and skill set. She prefers to keep her personal life private and has no interest in the celebrity lifestyle side of the industry. she quotes -learning is a gift, even if pain is your teacher, use it to your advantage -