Ali Bastian
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Ali Bastian is a television actress. She was born in 1983 in Windsor, Berkshire best known for playing Becca Dean in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2001 to 2006. She has also appeared on television in Jane Eyre, Cave Girl, A Touch of Frost, Twenty Four 7 and Here After.
She was dating Hollyoaks co-star (and on screen husband) Kevin Sacre who plays Jake Dean but they broke up in early 2006. Ali and Kevin dated for two years with life imitating art as their on-screen characters Jake Dean and Becca Hayton were also falling in love and beginning a relationship. During their relationship the couple appeared in a celebrity couples edition of the quiz show The Weakest Link. Although they broke up they remain close friends.
In December 2005, alongside her Hollyoaks cast mates Jodi Albert (Debbie Dean) and Sarah Jayne Dunn (Mandy Hutchinson), Ali released a successful exercise video called Hollyoaks Get Fit.
Ali was involved in a controversial storyline in Hollyoaks where her character was fired from her teaching job and sent to prison after having an affair with one of her students, Justin Burton (Chris Fountain). After their affair ended, Justin claimed that they had gone to bed together before his 16th birthday in order to have her arrested and tried. Becca was pregnant at the time and the paternity of the baby was uncertain until a test revealed that Jake was the father, not Justin. At the 2006 British Soap Awards Ali and Chris Fountain won the award for best storyline.
In January 2007 Ali left the show, with her final scenes broadcast on the 15 February 2007. Becca Dean was involved in a brutal, and later to be revealed fatal, stabbing in a prison cell. She leaves her newly born son Charlie.
She will join police drama The Bill as PC Sally Armstrong from July 2007
[edit] External links
- Ali Bastian at the Internet Movie Database
- More info on Becca Dean @ Hollyoaks Website
- Ali Bastian Fansite
