Spooked Martine back on TV

Martine McCutcheon is making a return to our TV screens after seven years away.

17:13 01 September 2005

Martine McCutcheon is making a return to our TV screens after seven years away.

The former EastEnder has been lined up to make a guest appearance in BBC hit spy drama, Spooks, in which she will play a waitress caught in the crossfire of a terror attack.

Martine, 29, played Tiffany in Albert Square for four years before her character was accidentally run over by Frank Butcher.

But in spite of the fact she cut her teeth as the abused wife of Grant Mitchell in the soap, she described her recent role in Spooks as "more gritty than anything I've done before".

Since leaving Walford in 1998, Martine has enjoyed considerable success on the stage, picking up the best actress in a musical gong at the 2002 Laurence Olivier awards for her role as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.

She has also scored a number one hit in the UK charts with Perfect Moment, as well as enjoying her first film role in Richard Curtis' blockbuster Love Actually.

The new series of Spooks will hit our screens later this year.