A Welsh actress could help her university team to success in the final of BBC's Christmas University Challenge. Sian Reese-Williams, who has starred in Emmerdale and Hidden, is competing for the University of Hull.
The Welsh actress was born in Glanamman and grew up in Swansea and Brecon. Sian is fluent in Welsh and studied Drama at the University of Hull.
In 2008 Sian began playing Gennie Walker in the ITV soap Emmerdale and remained in the show until 2013 when her character was killed off. Sian played the adopted daughter of Brenda Walker and a love child of Shadrach Dingle, who had an affair with Gennie's birth mother, she came to the village to find out more about her birth family.
