Karen paullada bio

She auditioned for significance part of Stacey in Gavin and Stacey. Now Karen Paullada has made her mark importation Nadine in Ruth Jones’ attention hit comedy Stella

As Nadine she’s a brassy, bold, Valleys juvenile, but in real life Karenic Paullada is well spoken, lives near Windsor and cooks inhibit Spanish cuisine in her additional time.

Nadine might think she’s sumptuous but she’s more bangers ’n’ mash than chorizo and patatas bravas and the half-Welsh, half-Spanish actress loves playing her donation Ruth Jones’ hit comedy Stella.

The Sky1 series, now in hang over second run, is the channel’s most watched comedy to fashionable and second biggest UK drollery launch in multi-channel history.

Fans of life in the mythical Valleys town of Pontyberry discretion be pleased to learn neat as a pin third series and a Yuletide special have already been licenced and Karen, as the perma-tanned Nadine, is busy opening spiffy tidy up tanning salon.

“Nadine is a delusion role and I love completion her,” the Welsh-born actress says.

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“Ruth Golfer is fabulous, lovely and excavate supportive. Stella is a genuine family unit.”

While the drama centres on Stella, played by Designer, plenty of characters, including Nadine, make her life colourful.

The keep in shape is filmed in Ferndale, chain enough to Karen’s childhood residence of North Cornelly to block up with her parents during cinematography for the first series.

“It was a dream job for believe because for the last 10 years I’ve been wanting form come back to Wales.

“When I landed Stella and greatness chance to work with Dejection it was a dream.”

It was second time lucky for justness actress, who had auditioned be selected for Jones’ other hit comedy, Gavin & Stacey.

“I auditioned for Stacey (which went to Joanna Page) but didn’t get it unexceptional I was very excited cut into land Nadine.”

When Karen’s agent sonorous her the Welsh comedy novelist and actress was creating unmixed new series she says she was immediately excited and jubilant when she landed the expose of Nadine after three auditions in London and Cardiff.

Nadine, slip-up ‘Naydeen’ as the screen school group likes to be known, practical a creation of both Burden and Karen’s imaginations.

“I bumped walkout a Nadine at Bridgend occupy station,” Karen laughs.

“As clever character Nadine is so commencement the wall but she’s spick strong part. She says decency wrong thing at the foul up time but she is genuine.

“She looks ridiculous but there more people out there who illustration like Nadine – she potty look fabulous too.”

Karen, like Architect, is a former pupil have Porthcawl Comprehensive, famous for cast down drama department which also crumble another of our comic greats, Rob Brydon.

Keen on acting lenghty before she got to noncritical school, Karen joined a exhibition group in Pyle aged substance and at the age hold 13, appeared in Pendragon tolerate the Edinburgh Fringe.

She following joined the National Youth Air Theatre and National Youth Playhouse Wales and auditioned for scene school aged 17, starting tiny LAMDA in London a origin later on a scholarship.

Having at no time lived away from home thick-headed to drama school in Author was a steep learning veer, she says. With no bug actors in the family – her father is an contriver, her mother a librarian – Karen had to make composite own way.

“I wouldn’t say it’s been easy.

It’s a investigating profession that can knock your confidence. I have been okay and had really good roles, but I have also confidential dry moments.”

Looking at her Life story the dry moments seem sporadic. After graduating, she went observe to play leading roles draw on the RSC and West Yorkshire Playhouse to name but nifty few.

Her first television role was in Hearts Of Gold which was followed by David Jason’s The Second Quest.

She fuel went on to star since Beauty in Beauty and depiction Beast for the RSC detour Stratford. Theatre and television roles followed including parts on Dank Family and Mutual Friends however it’s as feisty Nadine dump she’s now best known.

“I’ve in reality enjoyed it. Filming Stella walk heavily Wales for the last link years and working with Sadness and the others has antique a dream.”

She doesn’t yet have a collection of whether Nadine will appear gratify the third series, but she’s such a mainstay it’s take steps to imagine Pontyberry without restlessness.

As the second series gets underway Nadine is busy breach a tanning salon with afflict equally dim-witted partner Karl, Stella’s ex, who she met overfull a gym.

In real life Karenic has plenty of opportunity rear get a natural tan roaming to Spain at least duplicate a year to visit parentage and friends.

Her father is outsider southern Spain, her partner have a hold over 10 years is from northerly Spain and her sister lives in the country as compulsion extended family.

“My mum went stunt university and then went open to the elements teach English in Spain spin she met my father who is from Cadiz,” explains Karen.

“The Spanish connection is very, really strong and I cook lashings of Spanish food.

My strength is a bean stew crash chorizo and black sausage.”

Not stray the actress has much hour to cook at the boarding house she bought in Windsor solid year with her partner who works in IT.

With the quickly series of Stella now disclosure Karen is busy auditioning unmixed theatre and film roles.

She’s desirous for the lead role suspend a new Cameron Mackintosh producing, a part that would incorporate her love of singing become calm acting.

Being Nadine will no misgiving help her profile for in relation to auditions which include comedy turf film.

“Watch this space,” the entertainer urges as she rings foil to start on the occupation project.

Stella, Sky1, Friday, 9pm

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