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Born Lianne Paul Piper on 22 September 1982 in Swindon, England, her parents decided they preferred the name Billie three weeks after registering her birth.
When Billie was 15, she was offered a record deal and in 1998 became the youngest artist ever to debut at No1 in the UK Single’s Chart with ‘Because We Want To’. The same year, she was named the Princess of Pop at The Smash Hits Poll party. During the next two years, Billie recorded and released several singles and two albums all of which charted in the UK’s Top Twenty.
In Las Vegas in 2001, Billie secretly married DJ and TV Presenter Chris Evans whom she had been dating for six months. The couple divorced in 2007 after a 3-year separation but remain close friends.
In 2003, Billie decided to end her pop career and turned to her original ambition of acting, landing roles in ‘The Calcium Kid’ with Orlando Bloom and ‘Things to Do Before You’re Thirty’. She then began working on her most famous role to date, that of Rose Tyler in ‘Doctor Who’, winning Most Popular Actress in 2005 and 2006 at the National Television Awards.
Billie has played Hero in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, Sally Lockhart in ‘Ruby in the Smoke’ and Fanny Price in ‘Mansfield Park’ in television adaptations of historical literature.
In 2007 she married actor Laurence Fox, son of actor James Fox, and in 2008 gave birth to their son, Winston James.
