Iz Hesketh
Biography
Iz Hesketh (born 22 September 1997) is a British actress of British and Italian heritage who is a transgender woman and performs as a drag artist. Best known for portraying the transgender teenager Kitty Draper in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from January to August 2024, Hesketh has appeared in other productions including the Disney+ series Renegade Nell (2024) and the short film Tip Toe. Hesketh, a working-class individual from northwest England, began hormone replacement therapy around 2023, reporting subjective benefits such as euphoria, and initiated a GoFundMe campaign in February 2024 seeking £20,000 toward facial feminization surgery to further modify her appearance, raising over £10,000 from public donations by mid-2024. Her role in Hollyoaks involved a storyline centered on youth transitioning, for which she received a Best Newcomer award at the Radio Times Soap Awards.
Known For & Full Filmography2 Titles
Drama Series - 2026, 16 episodes • as Zee Malone
Neighbours Leo and Clive have lived next door for 15 years, and become deadly enemies as the world around them grows more tense, exploring the prejudices creeping into modern life.
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Valerian
England, 1705: Framed for murder and on the run with her sisters, Nell Jackson turns her hand to highway robbery to survive. Aided by her superpowered sidekick, a plucky little sprite called Billy Blind, Nell realizes that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason. A reason much bigger than she could have ever imagined: to defeat a magical plot against the Queen of England.