Bio
Annabelle Dowler (born 1974) is an English actress best known for playing Kirsty Miller in the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers, since 2001.
Annabelle was born and brought up in Formby, near Liverpool. After a Spanish and Drama degree at Bristol University, she trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1998.
Since then Annabelle has undertaken a wide range of work in theatre, television and radio drama.
Her theatre work includes Peter Pan at the National Theatre, Perpetua at Birmingham Rep, As You Like It and The Snow Queen for Oxford's Creation Theatre, Breezeblock Park and The Flint Street Nativity at Liverpool Playhouse, The Mayor of Zalamea at Liverpool Everyman and Tartuffe in Liverpool and at the Rose Theatre, Kingston.
Television credits include Lewis, Eastenders, Silent Witness and the Doctor Who Christmas Special The Snowmen.
As well as playing Kirsty, Annabelle does a lot of other radio drama, spending three months in 2009 as a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company.
Some of her favourite appearances include Wuthering Heights, Mr Lowry's Loves, My Turn to Make the Tea, Miss Marple: The Moving Finger, Single Parent Pal.com and Our Mutual Friend.
Annabelle lives in London with her husband Alejandro. They had a baby boy in 2010.