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Louisa Sarah Anne Connolly-Burnham (born 23 June 1992) is an English actress best known for her roles as Shannon Kelly on the BAFTA-nominated TV series Wolfblood, Willow Jenks in House of Anubis and Avril Fox in Call The Midwife. Connolly-Burnham has also had roles in ITV's Midsomer Murders, BBC's Holby City, Sky1's Little Crackers and was nominated for Best Actress at the Queens World Film Festival for her role in the short film Beneath Water.

Early Life
Connolly Burnham was born in Solihull, England to Anthony Burnham and Tracey Connolly but was raised in Buckinghamshire. She has two younger brothers called William and Tyler. Between 2001-2008, she studied dance, gymnastics, acting and singing at the Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe. Connolly-Burnham then attended the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts to do a two year Musical Theatre course from 2008-2010, where she was honoured with distinctions in singing and a Performing Arts Diploma.

Career
Her first acting role was in the 2007 TV movie Coming Down the Mountain, and in 2008, she portrayed Young Lou in the crime drama series Midsomer Murders. In 2012, Connolly Burnham got her breakthrough in the BAFTA nominated CBBC hit drama Wolfblood as Shannon Kelly in which she starred alongside Bobby Lockwood, Aimeé Kelly and Kedar Williams-Sterling. She left the show at the end of season three in 2014. In 2013 she portrayed the character Willow Jenks in season three of Nickelodeon's House of Anubis. In 2014, she starred in the short film Beneath Water in which she was subsequently nominated for Best Actress at the Queens World Film Festival in 2015. Since then, she has appeared as Avril Fox in the 2014 Christmas special of the BBC period drama Call the Midwife, and was the 34th actress to portray a childbirth on the series. She has also had roles in Holby City (2015), Death in Paradise (2016), Drifters (2016) and Casualty (2016). Connolly-Burnham made her stage debut playing a leading role in the 2017 theatre production Tribes at the Crucible Theatre. She has also starred in the stage production Beirut in 2018 at The Park Theatre. In 2019, Connolly-Burnham founded her own production company Thimble Films, and made her directorial debut with the short film The Call Centre (2020), which amassed over 1.5 million views on YouTube and earned Connolly-Burnham a nomination for Best Producer at the Underwire Film Festival UK.