Nicola Cowper
Nicola Jane Cowper ( born December 21, 1967 in London, England) is a British actress.
Life
Cowper had as an infant her first film appearance in the British comedy A Nice Girl Like Me by Desmond Davis. Your actual acting career began in the early 1980s on British television. In 1981 she had a starring role in the BBC series Break in the Sun, which included only six episodes. The following year she had in SWALK again one of the main roles of this series also originated only six episodes. In 1984 she played a guest role in the much more successful series The watchdogs. Her first feature film role, she received in 1985 on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland children's book based The Real Life of Alice in Wonderland on the side of Ian Holm and Peter Gallagher. The following year, she starred opposite Denholm Elliott in the horror film Underworld. It went on to star in the produced by Francis Ford Coppola Adventure Richard the Lionheart and the children of God on the side of Eric Stoltz and Gabriel Byrne as well as Journey to the Center of the Earth.
After the commercial failure of their final two Hollywood films her movie career ended abruptly and Cowper returned to England, where she again worked for British television. Among other things, she played in 1989 in six episodes in the series Streetwise with Andy Serkis. The British television audience they should be better known for her role as Detective Sergeant Helen Diamond in the series Dangerfield, they embodied between 1996 and 1999. Later she appeared in the soap opera EastEnders in a recurring guest role.
Cowper is the younger sister of the actresses Gerry Cowper and Jackie Cowper. She's since the late 1980s in a relationship with Tony McCann, who was convicted in 1988 for a bank robbery to 15 years in prison. His accomplice Mark Foley, who also received a long prison sentence, married Gerry Cowper's sister. From the relationship of Cowper and McCann 1999 twins were born. In July 2006, McCann murdered a 33 - year-old man, what Cowper helped him escape and he later warned by telephone prior to seeking police after him. McCann was sentenced in 2008 to 21 years in prison for murder.