Rebecca Grant (British actress)

Rebecca Helena Grant de Longueuil (born 1982), commonly known as Rebecca Grant, is a British actress, most notable for her role as Daisha Anderson on the BBC medical drama Holby City. Through her father, Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil, Grant is a second cousin twice removed of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

Grant has taken regular television parts in BBC's Prisoners Wives, Midsomer Murders, ITV's Emmerdale playing Dr. Stamford, Channel 4's Comedy Showcase playing Nila in 'Other People' opposite Martin Freeman, and The Way We Live Now. She has also appeared on the big screen, in Kristina (an Independent Film in which she won best actress at The International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema), Chakara (Laidback Films), Flipside and The Other Boleyn Girl. She also appeared in the 2001 film Sticks alongsde Justina Machado.

Her stage credits include: Dinner With Saddam at The Menier Chocolate Factory written by Anthony Horowitz and performing opposite Steven Berkoff, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Christian Slater and directed by Terry Johnson; Tagore's Women by Kali Theatre; The House of Bernarda Alba; Who Is This Jesus?; Bloodwedding; Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?; Carmen; Roy Hudd's Aladdin; Mahabharata; Burlesque; Twelfth Night; and The Glass Cage.

In her most well known role, as Daisha Anderson, Grant plays a Filipina nurse, but Rebecca is of mixed British, Spanish and Filipino origin. She was also series regular Shaheen Wazir in BBC's second series of Prisoners' Wives and, more recently, played semi-regular Heather Irvine in BBC One's Doctors.

In 2014, Grant played Princess Aouda in Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days written by House of Cards writer Laura Eason, receiving five star reviews up and down the country. She was then cast by Olivier award-winning director Terry Johnson in Seminar for Hampstead Theatre: a play that was previously on Broadway and written by NBC's Smash writer Theresa Rebeck.

In 2015, Grant performed in a one-woman play at West Yorkshire Playhouse written by The Vagina Monologues writer Eve Ensler.

Grant's father Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil, a doctor, hypnotist and nobleman, is of Anglo-Scots and French-Canadian descent. Her mother Isabel moved from the Philippines to live in Nottingham, England, where Rebecca grew up. She has two older sisters (Angela and Rachel, and a brother - David) Her paternal great-grandmother, Ernestine Bowes-Lyon, was first cousin to the British Queen Mother.