
While Sharon Wicks has got her claws into her man Jack in Walford, Samantha Womack is doing very well for herself. 2 years ago she played the leading role Ensign Nellie Forbush, a U.S. Navy nurse from Little Rock, Arkansas, in the Lincoln Center production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical South Pacific at the Barbican Theatre in London and Troubled Ronnie Mitchell in Eastenders. And very soon she is to star in Mount Pleasant. Appearing the third series of Sky Living's comedy drama which stars Sally Lindsay, Daniel Ryan, Bobby Ball and Angela Griffin - charts the unusual love lives and dramas of couples living in a cul-de-sac in the North of England. Samantha Begins filming Mount Pleasant with Pauline Collins who plays Sue in Manchester soon, and she is doing a musical near the end of the year, She said that will keep her busy for a while.