Asha Banks

Asha Alice Banks (born 26 November 2003) is an English actress and singer. She began her career as a child actress on the West End. She made her feature film debut in The Magic Flute (2022). Early life Banks was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire to parents Sophie and Duncan. She has an older brother. Banks attended Parmiter's School in Garston. She took Saturday drama classes at Top Hat Stage School and participated in Michael Xavier's MX Masterclass on Sundays, of which she is now a patron. Career Banks made her television debut in 2011 with minor roles in EastEnders and Call the Midwife, both on BBC One. Banks was seven or eight when she was cast as young Éponine in the long-running musical Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre in 2012, marking Banks' West End debut. She appeared in the 2014 Almeida and Playhouse Theatre runs of the play 1984. Banks went on the 2015 UK tour of Annie, playing the eldest orphan Duffy. She joined the West End production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane as Violet Beauregarde before its closure in 2017. She alternated the roles Pandora Braithwaite in the 2017 off-West End production of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Lisa James in The Boy in the Dress at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2019.