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Emma finally settled with Ed Grundy after a brief, unhappy marriage to his brother Will, and a bitter dispute over which brother had fathered her son George (it was Will).

Emma and Ed set up home and in 2011 daughter Keira was born. But beset by money troubles, they were forced to move in with Emma’s parents - and .

Emma is close to her mum, sharing a fondness for gossip and cocktails, but living with house-proud Susan caused tensions.

Now living at Grange Farm in their mobile home 'Little Grange' close to Ed's family, life is more relaxed. Emma has always worked hard including working at The Bull and The Ambridge Tea Room. Money is still tight and as a Grundy, the wolf is always at the door. This has lead to Emma and Ed coming up with ever more enterprising ways to keep financially afloat, most recently with their Tree Surgery business.

• Highs: Marrying Ed
• Lows: Will and Ed fighting over George, going to a food bank
• Likes: Family days out, reading
• Dislikes: Plucking turkeys; having no money for treats

• Ed Grundy (Husband) - She left Will to set up home with his brother Ed
• (Former husband)
• Emma loved working with Fallon at the Ambridge Tea Room
• Poppy Grundy (Niece)
• Jake Grundy (Step-nephew)
• Mia Grundy (Step-niece)

Emma's definitely one of life鈥檚 - and love's - victims. She's incredibly pessimistic, and is always half distracted waiting for the next disaster to fall from the sky. You've got to love her though!

Emerald always knew she wanted to be an actor: 鈥淎pparently I announced it to my parents when I was three!鈥�.

Growing up in Cambridge she had lots of opportunities as a child to get involved in local theatre. Her first role was Susan in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe when she was ten. She went on to play Juliet in a tour of Romeo and Juliet around East Anglia, and to perform on the Cambridge Arts Theatre stage as Miranda in The Tempest before going to drama school.

That was Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where in her final year she had the chance to play Juliet again. She found this a wonderful challenge and very interesting to look at the character after learning so much over the course. She also took part in lots of other productions over the three years she was there, including Oh! What A Lovely War, Days Of Significance, On The Razzle, and a tour of the west country with Cider With Rosie.

Emerald graduated in July 2009. She was lucky enough to go straight into work with the 大象传媒 Radio Drama Company for five months, having won the Carleton Hobbs competition at drama school. She loved her time on the Radio Rep, working on lots of different projects at once - playing a Plantagenet queen one week and a twenty-first century teenager the next!

She'd always harboured a secret hope that working for the 大象传媒 would lead to The Archers, having been a lifelong fan, and became increasingly despondent as the months went past without a call from Ambridge. She is thrilled that the call finally came!

My first day in studio! When I walked into the green room and saw all these actors I thought I didn't know anybody. Then they started to talk and I realised I knew them all! It was very surreal.

It was great doing a scene with Barry, who plays Ed. I'd been really worried about him not accepting a new wife. But he was very welcoming and kind and we had really good fun.

Winning the Carleton Hobbs was a huge highlight for me. I'd always wanted to get into radio drama and it was a fantastic opportunity. When I got the call saying I'd won a contract, I recognised the London number and was shaking so much I hung up instead of answering!

I also really loved playing Hannah in Days Of Significance by Roy Williams at drama school. It was directed by Katie Read, and we worked on it in the days while we were performing Romeo and Juliet at night. It was only shown internally to the staff and some students but it was such a wonderful play; so different from anything I'd tackled before, and the six of us in the cast had the best time working on it.

• Actor - Meryl Streep
• Book - The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. It's the most beautifully written book, and practically the only one that's ever made me really sob.
• Film - Up. The first ten minutes of that film are the most extraordinary and heartbreaking I've ever seen. The Big Lebowski - just genius.

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