Emma Blake

Emma Blake was virtually cradled in a television studio, appearing at the age of three months as an abandoned baby in Dixon of Dock Green. She went on to play leading television roles as a child actress working with Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses), and Dame Flora Robson (Black Narcissus) when she played the title role in the popular BBC Television serialisation of Heidi in the 1970's. She also appeared as Jackie in Kate for Yorkshire Television alongside Phyllis Calvert and Penelope Keith (To the Manor Born), and Eliza in Granada Television's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four, with Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke. Singing work has included recording the theme song for the Feature film Republic Of Love (based on the novel by Carol Shields), Directed by Deepa Mehta, and starring Edward and Emilia Fox, whilst in 2003, her debut CD entitled "goodness knows..." was released on Voiceprint Records, and received airplay and much acclaim on Smooth FM, BBC Radio 3, and Onda Cero in Spain where she lived for a time. Now living in Hampshire, Emma is also a talented dialect coach having led workshops at Oxford Playhouse, with more planned for the recently formed New Forest Actors theatre group of which she is founder and director.