Actor Eliza Collings is making the most of the end of Covid restrictions. She has enjoyed a belated honeymoon which was postponed due to the pandemic and she’s planning to get back to auditioning for work.

Eliza, whose acting career follows a family tradition, previously lived in Walthamstow but has been happily living in Newham for the last eight years.

Eliza decided she wanted to pursue an acting career around the age of 21 and was lucky enough to get into Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Eliza and her twin brother Sam Collings both followed in their parents’ footsteps by working in the entertainment industry. Eliza’s mother Karen Archer starred in The Chief, EastEnders, and Doctors, while her father David Collings acted in the 1980s Children’s TV series Look and Read, Dark Towers, Doctor Who, Sapphire and Steel, and the TV mini-series Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: A Murder is Announced.

Eliza told Newham Voices: “I guess you’d call it the family trade. Growing up we were always on TV sets or backstage in theatres while mum and dad were working during school holidays. It’s a very intoxicating world to grow up in and hard to imagine making a living in any other industry.”

Eliza has appeared in multiple stage and television productions over the years. Most recently, she was in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, both on tour and in the West End. She will also star in Strike-Troubled Blood for HBO/BBC which is due to come out in early 2023.

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