Away from the dramatic Dales, actress Natalie Robb kickstarted her television career as a child on a popular soap before stepping foot in Walford.
Emmerdale is currently in the midst of an explosive storyline as a fire breaks out in a barn on Moira Dingle’s farm. While in a daze, the farmer spilt tractor fuel on the floor of the barn as she was teased by gloating Ruby Fox-Miligan (Beth Cordingly).
Moments, later Moira (Natalie Robb) fired a warning shot from her gun, with the bullet striking a light bulb and igniting a spark.
A violent confrontation led to Moira delivering a sudden blow to Ruby’s head, leaving her in a state of shock and confusion. As a fire rages through the barn, an explosion is set to follow, but will Moira and Ruby survive to tell the tale?
Since Natalie joined the ITV soap as Moira in 2009, she has found herself in the middle of some very scandalous storylines, with the barn fire added to her list.
But before she ever set foot in the Dales, the popular actress once caused a stir on rival soap EastEnders, and was also a regular in Take the High Road as a child.
When she was young, Natalie, now 49, attended weekend drama groups in Glasgow, where she was discovered by director Alan Macmillan, later studying at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
At the age of nine, she made her screen debut starring in an STV docudrama alongside Tom Conti, reports Nottinghamshire Live.
By the time she became a teenager, she had been awarded the BBC Young Entertainer of the Year award on the kids’ TV show, Going Live!
Natalie was cast in the role of Trish McDonald in the Scottish soap opera Take the High Road a year later, which thrust her into the limelight and kick-started her TV career.
The ITV soap aired between 1980 and 2003 followed the lives of residents living in the rural Scottish village of Glendarroch. Natalie starred as Trish on the show between 1991 and 1998.
In 2006, Natalie had a brief stint in EastEnders as Gemma Clewes – the mistress of Walford’s love rat Max Branning (Jake Wood).
But her soap exploits don’t end there, as she has also previously appeared as Dr. Jude Carlyle in Doctor from 2001 until 2004 when she arrived in crime drama The Bill as PS Andrea Dunbar until 2005.
Natalie has also appeared in a number of other long-running TV shows in her time, including Waterloo Road, London’s Burning, Where The Heart Is, Dream Team, and Holby City.
Away from acting, she’s also tried her hand at being a pop star. She was previously part of the band The Kinky, and, in 1997 she released a track called Keep Your Love with the dance troupe Partizan.
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