Biography

Jessica Revell

Jessica Revell is an English actress and singer. She spent much of her childhood traveling alongside her parents, who both worked for British Airways. After living in France for some time, her family returned to the UK, and she began attending Tring Park School for the Performing Arts at age 12.

Revell is best known for playing Mandy "Elektra" Perkins in the CBBC show Tracy Beaker Returns and in The Dumping Ground, its spin-off. She reprised the role in The Dumping Ground Survival Files and The Dumping Ground Dish Up. Revell has also appeared on Sam & Mark’s Big Friday Wind-Up and in episodes of Casualty and Doctors. She co-founded theatre company Blind Elephant, which put on the plays Games and After Liverpool at Edinburgh Fringe, and has toured schools with the production People Are Messy. She currently lives in London and attends the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

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