Persephone Swales-Dawson

British actress (active 2014– )

Persephone Swales-Dawson

Born|

Rochdale, England

Occupation| Actress
Years active| 2014–present
Known for| Hollyoaks (2014–2016, 2018, 2020)

Persephone Swales-Dawson is a British actress. She is known for her role as Nico Blake in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks that she played regularly from 2014 to 2016, reprising the role briefly in 2018 and 2020.

## Early life[edit]

Swales-Dawson was born in Rochdale and grew up in Yorkshire. She attended Todmorden High School.[1] She began acting in school and joined the youth group at Hebden Bridge Little Theatre (HBLT). In 2013, she successfully auditioned for the Lowry Young Actors Company in Salford.[2] She later enrolled in classes at Mindful Acting.[3]

## Career[edit]

In 2014,[4] Swales-Dawson joined the cast of the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as the murderous teen villain Nico Blake, whom she would play until the character's supposed death in 2016.[5] For her performance, she won Best Bad Girl at the Inside Soap Awards that year. In a surprise, she returned to the soap in 2018 to reprise her role as Nico, but the character was killed off the same year. She then reprised the role in 2020 in a series of hallucinations.

Swales-Dawson made her professional stage debut when she played Jade Harcourt on the 2019 UK tour of The House on Cold Hill with Joe McFadden and Rita Simons.[6][7] She also appeared in the television film Risk Takers.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Todmorden High's GCSE pupils are record breakers". Halifax Courier. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
2. ^ "Persephone Swales-Dawson". TresA Magazine. 26 October 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
3. ^ "Persephone Swales-Dawson, Actor, England". Mandy. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
4. ^ Campbell, Tina (21 May 2014). "Hollyoaks casts Persephone Swales-Dawson as new teenage character Nico". Metro. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
5. ^ Harris, Niomi (31 October 2016). "Hollyoaks: Nico Blake actress Persephone Swales-Dawson CONFIRMS character's death". ok.co.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
6. ^ Thomason, Carmel (17 April 2019). "Ghoulish talk with Charlie Clements and Persephone Swales-Dawson". Quays Life. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
7. ^ "Review: 'The House on Cold Hill' – Milton Keynes Theatre, April 2019". Georgina Butler. 18 April 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2023.

## External links[edit]

* Persephone Swales-Dawson at IMDb
* Persephone Swales-Dawson at Spotlight

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