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Linette's recent roles include the 2021 Disney film Cruella and lists multiple Best Actress awards among her achievements for work on The Prowler, an award-winning film. Success also came on the stage where her interpretation of Lady Macbeth was hailed as a "vividly portrayed, compelling performance" (UK Theatre Network Review).

Linette Beaumont is the guest lead in Agatha Raisin alongside Ashley Jensen. In the award winning series Endeavour. Linette plays Paulette Thursday, sister-in-law to Detective Thursday (Roger Allam) and wife to Charlie (Phil Daniels). This follows her portrayal of Cherish Hylton on EastEnders (2016) and her lead role as Eva, a tormented ex-wife in the film The Prowler.

Her work on Prowler earned acclaim and she won Best Lead Actress in a Short Film, 2017 Best Shorts Competition California; Best Performance, Toronto Film Festival 2017; nominee, Best Lead Actress, Madrid Film Festival 2017. The film won Best British Film 2016 in the U.K.

Linette's trademark emotional versatility earned her in the lead in Melody's Tune and led writer-director Daniel Yost (co-writer, Drugstore Cowboy) to cast her as a dysfunctional mother,Wanda, who abandons her daughter on the streets. The girl imagines a soothing good mother, Lulu, who is also played by Linette.

Her journey began when she was only three years old, when she slipped on her first ballet shoes and discovered an instant bond with the performing arts. Linette is trained classical ballet dancer. Before drama school Linette also had a very successful career as a model and has shot numerous campaigns including for Burberrys of London.

An injury ended her dancing career, so her passion for stories that she learned as a child took on new meaning. She turned to her greatest love and was accepted into the prestigious Drama Centre London.

Before she graduated in 2001, she was cast opposite David Hayman in Trial and Retribution, created and written by Lynda LaPlante. She graduated shortly after with a BA Hons.

In addition to television and film, Linette has performed to critical acclaim in London in productions as Lady Macbeth and Lady Teazle in A School for Scandal, Martha Dobie in The Children's Hour, and Libby in Blue Window.

She is lending her talents to raise funds for the charity Kids for Kids by involving her performing arts schools in the U.K. and give aid to at-risk children in Sudan.

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