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Tabitha Byron
British actress (born 2010) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tabitha Byron (born 2010) is a British actress. From the age of 5, she played Constance Calendar in the children's drama series Hetty Feather from 2017 to 2020 and also appeared in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Apollo Theatre. She had a role in the 2021 film Sweetheart. Between 2021 and 2023, she portrayed Scarlett Butcher on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She has also made appearances in the series The Third Day (2020), the film Education (2020) and the short film Femi (2018). Byron has also interviewed various celebrities for Marvel Entertainment and Disney Channel and featured in advertisements.
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Tabitha Byron was born in 2010.[1][2] She is from London, England, and she began her career when she was five years old.[3] She has taken acting classes at the New London Performing Arts Centre.[2] Byron's older sister grew up acting and would help her prepare and take her to auditions.[2] When she was five years old, she featured in an advert for Heathrow Airport, where she played a "sassy business lady"..[2] She later was cast in an advert for Arby's.[2]
In 2017, at the age of five, Byron began portraying Constance Calendar in the third season of the children's drama series Hetty Feather, and she continued playing the role until the show's end in 2020.[2][4][1] She got the audition for the role the same week she got auditions for Heathrow Airport and Arby's.[2] Byron found it "amazing" to see the Hetty Feather set in-person as she had previously watched the show.[2] Byron was the youngest person on set and was glad that the older child actors included her.[2] She filmed in Kent, away from her home, during her stint on the show, which she called a "massive part" of her life.[2] Byron felt lucky that the writers trusted her with "a big storyline for the final series".[2] When she was six years old, she made her West End debut in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Apollo Theatre, playing one of the children; the play was also filmed and put on the National Theatre at Home website.[5][6] She was filming the fourth series of Hetty Feather whilst taking part in the place and thus would commute twice a week from Kent to London to perform at the Apollo.[2] In 2018, she also appeared in National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the National Theatre Live's live screening of the play.[1] That same year, she appeared in the short film Femi.[7][1] In 2020, she had a guest appearance in the drama-thriller television series The Third Day.[8][1] She considered it a "really cool job to do" and liked her experience there, including the fact that it was filmed on an island.[2] That same year, she made an appearance in the film Education, part of the anthology Small Axe.[4] Byron portrayed Dana in the 2021 film Sweetheart.[9][10] She enjoyed being on the production and revealed that she and the cast were often allowed to improvise.[2]
In August 2021, it was announced that Byron had joined the cast of the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Scarlett Butcher, the daughter of Janine Butcher (Charlie Brooks), who had been announced to be returning to the soap earlier that year.[8][5][4] The character had previously debuted in the soap in 2012.[1] Bryon made her first appearance as Scarlett in the episode originally airing on 27 August 2021.[11][12] Scarlett was later written out of the soap and Byron last departed in the episode originally airing on 26 January 2023, along with Sid Owen, who portrayed Scarlett's uncle Ricky Butcher.[13][14]
In addition to acting, Byron has been an interviewer for Marvel Entertainment and Disney Channel and has interviewed figures such as Zoe Saldaña and Chris Pratt.[5]
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