ABOUT NATALIE GUMEDE
English actress who played Kristy Soames in the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street and portrayed China in BBC Three's series Ideal from 2005 to 2011.
She attended Pendle Hippodrome Youth Theatre and at age 11 was picked by BBC producers to help present the 1995 Northwest regional insert for Children in Need.
She played the Heroine in the video game You're in the Movies in 2008.
She was raised with her family in Colne. Her grandfather, Josiah Gumede , was the only President of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.
She competed with dancer Artem Chigvintsev on the eleventh series of the show Strictly Come Dancing in 2013.
