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Kazia Pelka is a British actress. She trained at LAMDA where she was awarded the Wilfred Foulis prize. She has worked extensively in the theatre with roles ranging from classical to contemporary. She has had major roles in Brookside, Heartbeat, Coronation Street, and more recently five's soap Family Affairs, where she played Chrissy Costello from September 2003 until the show's final episode on 30 December 2005. Pelka won the award for "Best Dramatic Performance" at the 2005 British Soap Awards, the first award ever to be won by Family Affairs. She appeared as a semi regular character DAC Georgia Hobbs in The Bill. She has also appeared in Casualty.
Her brother is Valentine Pelka who starred in the TV series Queen of Swords and guest appearances in the TV series Highlander: The Series. They appeared together in the Heartbeat episode Sitting off the Dock of Bay. Their mother is Irish stage actress Alma Herley, whose brother Randal Herley is also an actor, and their maternal grandmother was opera singer Anne Herley.
In 1998 she married Brian Jordan. Their daughter Theodora was born in 2000.
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