Camilla Power

Camilla Joy Cynthia Power born November 13 1976 is an Irishborn English actress She is best known for her appearances in the television series Emmerdale and Waterloo Road Power was born in Cork Ireland and is a distant cousin of the actor Tyrone Power Her greatgrandfather was Sir John Power Member of Parliament for Wimbledon before the Second World War She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone and started acting from an early age her first TV appearance was on a chicken nuggets commercial and an early screen role was as Sabina Halliday in A Summer Story 1988 Power appeared in Channel 4s The Manageress in 1990 and played Jill Pole in BBC Televisions The Silver Chair 1990 an adaptation of the book by C S Lewis She also had parts in Bonjour la Classe 1993 and Moonacre BBC 1993 the last calling for skill at horseriding From 1993 to 1995 she was a regular cast member on the Yorkshire Television soap Emmerdale playing Jessica McAllister Power made her stage debut in a theatrical adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the National Theatre in 1998 She had roles in the television drama series Murder in Mind and The Brief In 2006 she appeared in the BBC One schoolbased drama series Waterloo Road as English teacher Lorna Dickey and returned for the second series in 2007 until her character committed suicide after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis In early 2008 she starred in the Torchwood episode From Out of the Rain as Pearl a circus star who escapes from an old cinema film and seeks revenge on those who put her out of business Power was seen in the British action movie The Tournament as the ruthless assistant to Liam Cunninghams Tournament Master In 2012 she appeared in two episodes of ITV drama Whitechapel In 2016 she appeared in Shut Up and Dance an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror