The British Soap Awards is an annual awards ceremony to honour the best of British soap operas.

The first event took place in 1999 and takes place in May each year. Although it is an ITV production, the events were held at the BBC Television Centre, in London until 2010. The 2011 awards relocated to the Granada Studios in Manchester, then to The London Studios for the 2012 awards. The show is currently presented by Phillip Schofield. The soap operas nominated for awards are Coronation Street, Doctors, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks. Now-defunct soaps that were formerly nominated for awards are Brookside, Family Affairs, Night and Day and Crossroads.

Note: Table does not include 'Special Achievement' or 'Lifetime Achievement' awards.

Lorna Katie Fitzgerald (born 8 March 1996) is a British actress from Northampton. She lives in Hunsbury. Her most notable role to date is that of Abi Branning in the British soap opera EastEnders.

Fitzgerald started attending Stage Coach Drama Classes at the age of four. She has two older sisters, Corinne and Abigail. She is a keen dancer and enjoys ballet and tap. She also plays the guitar and keeps active by swimming.

She appeared in the Casualty episode "Animals", and a short film called Big Girl, Little Girl. She also appeared in the ITV drama The Golden Hour, as well as playing Sarah Lancashire's daughter Jade Cannings in Cherished, and Young Bex in According to Bex. She has also been in adverts for Childline and Nescafe.

Some time after attending acting classes, Fitzgerald joined the Stagecoach Theatre Arts School in Stony Stratford, and Derngate Theatre School. Through her agent, she heard about the role in BBC One soap opera EastEnders, and went to the BBC Studios in London for the first of three auditions. She was cast as Abi Branning, making her first appearance in 2006.

Pam St Clement (born Pamela Ann Clement, 12 May 1942) is a British actress. She played Pat Evans in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 1986–2012, becoming one of the programme's longest-serving cast members. Clement announced her intention to leave EastEnders on 8 July 2011, and the character departed on 1 January 2012. She started her acting career in 1972, where she worked extensively on stage.

Clement's parents, Ann Tribe and Reginald Clement, married in 1940. Shortly after Clement's birth in 1942, her mother died and she was put into foster care when her father remarried. Clement subsequently grew up in various different foster homes until she was taken in by a family who owned a farm in Devon. She has commented: "I was very fortunate in the end. I was always being farmed off to holiday homes, then when I was just pre-teens I went down to Devon to some people who were very good at taking on youngsters, and what originated as a business arrangement became my home." Clement's father rose to become the managing director of a toy manufacturers in London and married five times in total over the course of his life.

Scott Alexander Maslen (born 25 June 1971) is an English actor and model, best known for his portrayal as DS Phil Hunter in ITV's The Bill and now Jack Branning on the BBC's flagship soap EastEnders.

Maslen was born in Woolwich, London, England on 25 June 1971. As a young boy Scott admired the Royal Marines and attended Bromley Marine Cadets on a Monday and a Thursday at T.S. Narvik in Bromley Common. He was brought up in Woolwich and signed up to join the Royal Marines with his school friends, Marcus Marnham and Simon Farnham at the age of 16. He later sustained an injury whilst in the Marines, resulting in him having to leave. He is also a supporter of West Ham United and an interview with him can be seen on the 2005/06 Season Review DVD. He has been a vegetarian since the age of 18; he discussed this on appearances on both The Paul O'Grady Show and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. In 2009, he was voted as PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian alongside singer Leona Lewis.

He is married to Estelle Maslen (née Rubio), who is the mother of his son Zak Alexander Maslen (born January 2001). The couple were together for nine years before they were married on 6 September 2008. Several of Maslen's co-stars were in attendance at his wedding, including: Samantha Womack, Rita Simons, Charlie Clements, Jo Joyner, Steve McFadden, Barbara Windsor, Patsy Palmer and Perry Fenwick.

Michelle Elizabeth Keegan (born 3 June 1987) is an English actress who currently plays Tina McIntyre in the soap opera Coronation Street.

Keegan was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester Her parents separated when she was 13 and she went to live with her mother and stepfather. Her grandmother is from Gibraltar and Keegan has stated this is where her "exotic" looks come from.

She attended St Patrick's RC High School in Salford and, later, the Manchester School of Acting. Before she became Tina McIntyre in Coronation Street, she was turned down for a part in Hollyoaks. Keegan worked at Selfridges in the Trafford Centre shopping mall and as a check-in agent at Manchester Airport. She also had a small cameo appearance in Red Dwarf: Back to Earth.

On 14 June 2009 Keegan made her radio debut co-hosting the BBC Radio 1 programme The Official Chart with Reggie Yates.

Keegan was on the cover of FHM Magazine in January 2011, and placed #30 and #26 in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women poll for 2010 and 2011 respectively.