Bio
Natalie Gumede is an English actress best known for her role as Kirsty Soames, the domestic abusive love interest to mechanic Tyrone Dobbs, in the soap opera Coronation Street.
In 2013 she was the joint runner-up on the reality competition series Strictly Come Dancing.
Other television series she has acted in include Emmerdale, Wire in the Blood, Doctors, The Persuasionists, Ideal, Moving On, Doctor Who and Death in Paradise.
In 2015 she had a starring role as Bella, who forms part of a love triangle with Robert Jekyll, in the period drama horror series Jekyll & Hyde, an adaptation by Charlie Higson of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde which is set in 1930s London at a time of Hollywood glamour, aerodynamic cars and monster movies.