Samia Smith Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Samia Maxine Ghadie (born 13 July 1982), is an English actress best known for playing Maria Connor in the ITV Soap Coronation Street. Samia Ghadie was born in Eccles near Manchester to a Lebanese father and an English mother who met while working in Abu Dhabi, where she also lived as a child. She also has a brother named Tariq. She made her acting debut when she was 11, appearing in a single episode of Cracker ("The Big Crunch"). She then made appearances in Children's Ward, Heartbeat, Doctors, and the children's series Life Force. Her big break came in 2000, when she beat Suzanne Shaw and... MORE

Samia Maxine Ghadie (born 13 July 1982), is an English actress best known for playing Maria Connor in the ITV Soap Coronation Street. Samia Ghadie was born in Eccles near Manchester to a Lebanese father and an English mother who met while working in Abu Dhabi, where she also lived as a child. She also has a brother named Tariq. She made her acting debut when she was 11, appearing in a single episode of Cracker ("The Big Crunch"). She then made appearances in Children's Ward, Heartbeat, Doctors, and the children's series Life Force. Her big break came in 2000, when she beat Suzanne Shaw and Kimberley Walsh to the role of Maria Sutherland in Coronation Street, where she has been at the centre of some of the show's biggest story lines in recent years. Along with Jennie McAlpine in December 2008, she participated in a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? where the pair won £50,000 for charity. Her film Smith was placed 52nd in the 2003 FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World, and voted sexiest female by the readers of Inside Soap magazine in 2005. In the same year she impersonated Holly Valance in a celebrity version of Stars In Their Eyes – which she won. She also appeared LESS