Biography
When existence spotted inside the television advert while still at stage school, she was offered a record treat at the age of merely 15, & within 1998 became a immature ever female solo creative person to top the UK singles chart with "Because We Want To". Her watch-higher lone "Girlfriend" likewise débuted at First, & many more successful singles & 2 albums followed. Around 1999, Piper was nominated for two Brit Awards and was named Right Female Star at a Smash Hits Poll Winners' party, although at a latter ceremony she was reduced to tears fallowing existence savagely booed by jealous fans of Ritchie Neville, member of boyband Five, whom she was dating at a period.

She switched back to her original ambition of acting around 2003 after the self-mass produced guide to prevent her pop career. However the high-profile figure, she quickly earned roles in the BBC Television series The Canterbury Tales (modern retellings of Chaucer's stories) and a of these-off drama Bella and the Boys. Despite the veto reaction ordinarily given to singers world health organization attempt to work, Piper gained super caring reviews for these appearances, critics apparently feeling that she was the far better actress than she was a singer.

Within 2004 she appeared in the films The Calcium Kid, as a girlfriend of Orlando Bloom's character, and ''Things to do Before You're Thirty. Within May 2004 it was announced she was to play the character Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor in the 2005 series of Doctor Who. Shortly prior to starting act in Doctor That she filmed the star role in the horror flick Spirit Trap, released in the summertime of 2005 to usually unfortunate reviews. In October 11 2005, Piper was nominated for a National Televisiin Award for her act on Doctor That.

She is due to star when Hero inside the BBC adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, updated for the modern day in the similar manner to the Canterbury Tales series where she featured, using Hero nowadays existence the weather condition presenter around the tv station.

Piper was married to man of affairs & previous television presenter Chris Evans. Their 2001 marriage attracted much comment due to the xvi-season age gap between them. Around October 2004, the two began the test separation. Within spring of 2005 it was confirmed that she & Evans is divorcing.

Although Dreamwatch magazine reported in its May 21, 2005 issue that her agent stated that Piper would leave Doctor That partway through a year, merely appearing for 3 to seven episodes, the BBC has since proclaimed that Piper might link to for the whole of the 2006 series.

Filmography

Television

The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale (BBC One, 2003) Bella and the Boys (BBC Two, 2004) Doctor Who (BBC One, 2005) Much Ado About Nothing (BBC One, forthcoming)

Film

Evita (1996, uncredited bit-part) The Leading Man (1996, uncredited bit-part) The Calcium Kid (2004) Things to do Before You're Thirty (2005) Spirit Trap (2005)

Discography

Albums

Honey to the B (1998) UK #14 Walk of Life (2000) UK #14 The Very Best Of Billie Piper'' UK release date: 8 August 2005 [http://www.woolworths.co.uk/wwstore/product.jhtml?op=details&product=50426333&op=details]

Singles

"Because We Want To" (1998) #1 UK; #19 AU "Girlfriend" (1998) #1 UK; #35 AU "She Wants You" (1998) #3 UK "Honey to the Bee" (1999) #3 UK; #6 AU "Thank ABBA For The Music" (by owning Steps, Tina Cousins, Cleopatra and B*Witched) (1999) #4 UK; #9 AU "Day & Night" (2000) #1 UK; #8 AU "Something Deep Inside" (2000) #4 UK "Walk of Life" (2000) #25 UK