Finola Hughes
- Actress
- Director
- Producer
Finola Hughes was born in London. She studied at Arts Educational Schools and
began her career in the Northern Ballet Company, after winning the Markova award. She went on to work in the West End, in the original cast of "Cats" and continued working with Andrew Lloyd Webber in "Song & Dance".
After making Staying Alive (1983) in LA, she moved to California in 1984 and began working on Hôpital central (1963), winning an Emmy award in 1991. She continued to make TV series and various movies for the next few years, Jack's Place (1992), Aspen Extreme (1993), Petite fleur (1990), Charmed (1998), and returned to ABC daytime, in 1999, to join the cast of La force du destin (1970) in New York. Once in NY, she began entering the Fashion World and returned to Los Angeles to begin a 4-year stint on the Style Network, with a fabulous makeover
show, How Do I Look? (2004). She returned for a brief sojourn to Hôpital central (1963), and it's spin-off, "Night Shift". Finola lives in Santa Barbara with her husband, artist Russell Young, and their 3 children.
