"Who portrays Kara Tointon in TV's ""Eastenders""?"
Kara Tointon and teenagers. In November 2018, Tointon gave birth to her first child, a boy with her fiancée, Marius Jensen. Kara Tointon Kara Louise Tointon (born 5 August 1983) is an English actress, best known for playing Dawn Swann in BBC soap opera "EastEnders", as the 2010 winner of BBC television series "Strictly Come Dancing" and as Maria in the ITV live production of "The Sound of Music Live" in December 2015 alongside Julian Ovenden as Captain von Trapp. Tointon was born to parents Ken and Carol Tointon. Together with her actress sister, Hannah (born 1987), Tointon was brought up in
Kara Tointon and Miss Tointon faced it with skill and charm". In 2012 Kara was cast as Evelyn in Alan Ayckbourn's West End revival of "Absent Friends", a play he wrote and set in 1974. She appeared along with Reece Shearsmith, Katherine Parkinson, Steffan Rhodri, Elizabeth Berrington, and David Armand at the Harold Pinter Theatre, a Sonia Friedman production directed by Jeremy Herrin. Michael Billington of "The Guardian" wrote, "All the performances in this production are finely judged. Kara Tointon has just the right broodiness as the edgy Evelyn, who is like a comic version of the young mother in Edward Bond's