Biography

Troy Titus-Adams was born on April 22nd to a Motown-Loving family!

Her parents separated when she was six years old and she and her mother moved to Amsterdam where she was exposed to the performing arts. Troy Titus-Adams found out she had a passion for acting and dancing at the tender age of three when she experienced her first tap dancing lesson. She went on to attend the Scapino Ballet School in Amsterdam when she was seven and also took improvisation and mime classes. Returning to London as a teenager she attended the Italia Conti stage school. She then went on to attend Mountview Theatre School and the Weekend Arts College where her love of acting really developed.

In order to work professionally she had to gain her equity card which she did by spending 7 months working in New York Circo in Mexico. It was her first taste of Las Vegas showgirl style dancing...bikini and feathers. It was an experience. She then went on to do a cruise ship tour with Playback Ballet before returning to the UK where she auditioned for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express in the West End, playing the role of a component. It is one of the highlights of her career.

Troy decided that acting was the way forward and literally gave up her dancing career to concentrate on acting. In 1998 she landed the Role of Nina Harris in the BAFTA award winning soap EastEnders where she helped the lead loveable rogue character Grant Mitchell get over the death of his wife Tiffany. After leaving the show in 2000 she went on to guest star on the Channel 5 flagship soap Family Affairs.

Troy has a varied repertoire of work and is also an upcoming producer. She enjoyed her first taste of producing in 1999 when she co-produced the award winning short film Simple! In which she also starred. In 2000 her childhood friend Dee Allen asked her to team up with him, and another friend to form Heavy Soul Ltd. To date Heavy Soul has produced four films.

What Troy likes most about producing is finding a script, having a creative input, developing it, bringing together a good cast and crew to create a great finished product. She loves all aspects of filmmaking and is constantly learning.

She cites her success on having a great family, extended family and fantastic friends whose love and support is her rock and foundation ... keeping her feet well and truly on the ground but with the courage to dare to dream …