Lacey Turner

Lacey Amelia Turner (born 28 March 1988) is an English actress, best known for playing Stacey Slater in the popular BBC television soap opera, EastEnders. She has won multiple awards for her portrayal of the character. Turner was born in Hendon, NW London in 1988, to parents Bev and Les. She was raised as a Catholic with her two younger sisters Daisy and Lily, in Hertfordshire, near to the BBC television studios in Elstree. She has commented, "From my bedroom window you could see part of the Square, and you could hear them all filming at night. I used to say to my mum: `I wanna be on that!" It was whilst living there that Turner decided to become an actress. At the age of 10, she schooled at the Sylvia Young Theatre School to achieve her ambition, but left after a year stating that it "wasn`t my cup of tea". She has since revealed that she was bullied while at stage school, by children who teased her for being "geeky". Instead, she attended a local girls private school (Peterborough And Saint Margarets School) and went to dance, singing and acting classes outside school.

In 2005, Turner dated Jake Gotlieb, during which time a tabloid newspaper printed CCTV pictures of them together "in a steamy clinch", in the corridor of the Carlton Tower Hotel in London`s Knightsbridge. After splitting with Gotlieb, Turner began dating barber Matt Kaye; however, she split from Kaye in March 2007. As of 2008, she resides in Radlett, Hertfordshire. In january 2009 Turner was involded in a fight at a club in West London, she was with friends, they approached a group of girls throwing swear threats and then Turner and her friends were thrown out of the club, Turner was unaware of this at the time. Lacey`s second cousin is Philip Dowling, who played Leo Taylor in Eastenders.