February is LGBT History Month and with that in mind we have chosen Alicya Eyo as our Inspirational Diversity Champion of the Month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alicya is an actress, best known for her roles as Denny Blood in the ITV<\/a> prison drama series Bad Girls<\/a> and Ruby Haswell<\/a> in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A|icya\u2019s love drama started when she was nine and she attended drama and dance classes every Saturday. When she was 14, she moved to London<\/a> with her family where she trained at the Courtyard Theatre School<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her first television appearance was in 1997, in Casualty<\/a>, She also made an appearance on Hetty Wainthropp Investigates<\/a> and appeared in Gold the follow up drama series to Band Of Gold as a young prostitute In 1999, she appeared with Goldie<\/a> in the David Bowie<\/a> film Everybody Loves Sunshine<\/a> known as B.U.S.T.E.D., internationally. She also starred in the movie G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time<\/a>. However, Alicya\u2019s big break came in 1998 when she was offered the part of Denny Blood<\/a>, in Bad Girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n