Bradford actress Rachel Leskovac's career is going from strength to strength.

The 27-year-old, whose parents live at Queensbury, is playing the part of new staff nurse Kelly Yorke in the BBC TV drama series Holby City.

"She's very pleased, but the filming in London seems to go on all hours - Saturday, Sunday.

''Rachel's up at 6am and back whenever," her father Peter said.

"She's been filming since April. She has a nine-month contract and will appear for the first time towards the end of this month. If the BBC like what they see she may get a longer contract.

"It's the nearest thing to a steady job she's had!"

Kelly Yorke is a new principal character who has a younger brother, Nic, who also works in Holby City. He's played by hunky Liam Garrigan.

Since graduating from Liverpool's Paul McCartney School of Performing Arts at the end of the last century, Rachel has hardly been out of work.

She actually started at the top in 1999, landing the role of Viv Nicholson in the West End musical Spend, Spend, Spend, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award as Best Actress in a Musical.

"She was in the West End for a year and a bit and then went on tour with the show," Peter said.

"After that she did a bit of TV, she was in Red Cap, Where the Heart Is, Casualty, At Home with the Braithwaites, and now Holby City has come along."

Although Rachel is busy all hours of the day, she has managed to make at least one of her domestic dreams come true.

Three years ago when she was in Spend, Spend, Spend, she told the T&A that she wanted to move out of rented accommodation in London to St Albans which, she said, reminded her of the north, in particular Skipton. Her dad said Rachel and her partner, a musician, had bought a house there, although filming at Elstree Studios meant that she was hardly at home to enjoy it.