Portrait of Faye McKeever

Faye McKeever

Acting

Biography

Faye McKeever is an English actress. Her notable works include playing Linda in Sky 1 sitcom Trollied, Marie in Massive and Claire Olssen in Little Boy Blue. McKeever first rose to prominence in 2006 playing Donna Marie in the spin-off series Hollyoaks: In The City. This was McKeever's first major television role. In 2008, she landed a role as Lou in Torn Up Tales which first aired on 2 June 2008 on BBC Three. Later on in 2008, McKeever played the role, Marie, in Massive on BBC Three again in September and October. Whilst on the set, she was acting with Carl Rice, Lorraine Cheshire and Beverly Rudd, all actors on the cast of Trollied. In 2009, she appeared on ITV's Unforgiven as Hannah Whelan. She then featured in the 6th episode of Season 3 of The Street, playing Hannah. She played Susan in the 8th episode of the 7th season of Shameless. McKeever's first appearance in 2011 came on Sky 1's Mount Pleasant as a checkout girl. Her second TV appearance came on Trollied as Linda in August 2011, which she portrayed until the show's end in 2018. In February 2017, she appeared in the two-part drama series, The Moorside based on the Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews and in April 2017 she appeared in Little Boy Blue, a show based on the murder of Rhys Jones. In 2024, she played Louise Miller, the mother of Ruby Sunday in the Doctor Who story "Empire of Death".

Born: January 18, 1985

Place of Birth: Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Filmography

2025
Adolescence

as Erica

2024
Doctor Who at the Proms

as Louise Miller (archive footage)

2024
Doctor Who

as Louise Miller

2024
2022
The Responder

as Jodie Sweeney

2021
Time

as Tanya

2020
Des

as Linda Jay

2019
Pond Life

as Tracey Collett

2017
Broken

as Caroline Powell

2017
Little Boy Blue

as Claire Olssen

2017
The Moorside

as Petra Jamieson

2011
Death in Paradise

as Danielle Mackenzie

2011
Trollied

as Linda

2009
Unforgiven

as Hannah Whelan