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Kimberley Jane Walsh (born November 20, 1981) is an English singer and member of pop group Girls Aloud.

Walsh was born in in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and grew up with two sisters and one brother in its Allerton suburb. She had her first taste of fame starring in an advert as a child. In 2000 she tried out for the role of Maria Sutherland in the soap opera Coronation Street, losing out to Samia Smith. Later she appeared in the television series This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper as Gillian Oldfield, and in the same year she starred in a BBC Educational Schools programme called Focus. In 2001 Kimberley played Tracy in Dream Back.