Laila Rouass Laila Rouass Laila Abdesselam Rouass (born 22 June 1971) is a British actress. She is best known for her portrayals of Amber Gates in "Footballers' Wives" (2004–2006) and Sahira Shah in "Holby City" (2011–12). She has also starred in "Primeval" and "Spooks" and been a contestant on "Strictly Come Dancing", in which she finished fourth. Rouass was born in Stepney, London to a Moroccan father and an Indian mother. Rouass worked as a VJ on Channel V in India in the 1990s. While on Channel V, she appeared in a music video for the band Colour Blind, directed by the
Laila Rouass 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2004 and FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005 respectively. In 2009 she appeared as Egyptologist Sarah Page in the third series of the ITV science-fiction series "Primeval". She left the show when location of filming was changed to Dublin, for series four and five, saying it would be hard to continue participating as she was a single parent. In spring of 2010, Rouass announced that she will be making a film about Leila Khaled, who led the hijacking of a flight from Rome to Athens in 1969. Rouass stated she had funding