Holly Rhian Wilkinson was born on 12th January 1994 in Hutton Rudby, North Yorkshire, UK. She studied GCSE Drama at Stokesley School but she turned her back on Drama and studied at Askham Bryan College for three years, achieving a First Diploma in Animal Management.
She took part in 'Chipped' in March 2014 and realized acting is the path she wanted to take. Holly started local Amateur Dramatics in the village where she lives aged 11, but turned her back on that for a while. Now, aged 20 she has taken part in three further local village pantomimes, took on the role of Lysimachus in Pericles Prince f Tyre directed by Rob Cliverd whilst at Askham Bryan and took part in Stokesley School's production of Grease in 2010