Elize du Toit

Known for ActingBorn 1980-02-21 (age 46)Grahamstown, South Africa

Elize du Toit (born 21 February 1980) is a South African-born English former actress best known for playing the role of Izzy Davies in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2000 to 2004, with a brief return in 2007. Elize du Toit was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, the second of four children, to an artist mother and an orthodontist father. She spent most of her childhood in Pretoria. She moved to Berkshire, United Kingdom, in December 1994, where she attended Wellington College, completed her A-levels; attaining straight As in English, French, history and history of art. She was a member of Reading's Progress Theatre. She studied history at the University of Edinburgh and performed with the Edinburgh University Theatre Company. Elize du Toit won the role of Izzy Davies in the Channel 4 Soap opera Hollyoaks after an open audition; beating 40,000 hopefuls. She left the show in 2004 after four years filming in Liverpool. In November 2011, Du Toit made an appearance in Coronation Street as Jenny, the ex-girlfriend of Matt Carter.Read more

Movies & web series

Homeland

Lilias Adie

Lewis

Doctor Who

Skyfall

Waking the Dead

Waterloo Road

The Line of Beauty

Ghost Town

M.I. High

Flirting with Flamenco

In Your Dreams

The Devil's Chair

Richard & Judy

UAP

The Underdog Show

Hollyoaks: Indecent Behaviour