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EastEnders' Ruby star Louisa Lytton's life off screen including Harry Potter role and famous cousin


Louisa Lytton is best known for her role as Ruby Allen in EastEnders, but her life off-screen has been just as interesting, including a famous cousin and a forgotten Harry Potter role

EastEnders' Ruby Allen made a dramatic return to Walford last year, just in time for the soap's explosive 40th anniversary celebrations which saw her cherished on-screen partner meet a tragic fate. Ruby and Martin's romance was short lived after he died in The Vic (Image: BBC/Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron) Louisa, 36, hails from Camden, North London, and honed her acting skills at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone. In 1999, Louisa featured as a young girl in an episode of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders' Let Them Eat Cake, and in 2002, she served as Emma Watson's body double in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

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