Editing Julia Sawalha (section)

==Early life and education==
Sawalha was born in [[Wandsworth]], London, on 9 September 1968, and is the daughter of Roberta Lane and actor [[Nadim Sawalha]].<ref name="BBCAgeism"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/18/nadia-sawalha-my-family-values |title=Nadia Sawalha: My family values |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=18 April 2014}}</ref> Her father was born in [[Madaba]], Jordan.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://the-arab.blogspot.com/2009/10/arab-talks-tonadim-sawalha.html |title=The Arab Talks To....Nadim Sawalha |access-date=12 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921051338/http://the-arab.blogspot.com/2009/10/arab-talks-tonadim-sawalha.html |archive-date=21 September 2010}}</ref> She was named after her paternal grandmother, a businesswoman who had received an award from [[Noor of Jordan|Queen Noor]] for enterprise. She is of Jordanian, English and French [[Huguenot]] ancestry.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/get_started/wdytya_celeb_gallery_09.shtml Julia's profile at BBC History]</ref>

Sawalha was educated at the [[Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts#Theatre Arts School|Theatre Arts School]], a fee-paying [[independent school]] which is part of the [[Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts]],<ref name=Ind>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/absolutely-fab-1583811.html |title=Absolutely fab |work=[[The Independent]] |author=Sarah Gristwood |date=26 November 1995 |access-date=7 August 2018}}</ref> based at the time in [[Clapham]] in south London, which she left at the age of fifteen.<ref name=Ind/>