Former EastEnders star Nina Wadia has landed a guest role on Holby City.
The actress, best known to soap fans as Walford's Zainab Masood, will play a neurosurgeon called Annabelle Gold on the BBC medical drama.
Nina Wadia on This Morning
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Nina Wadia on This Morning
Wadia announced the news on ITV's This Morning today (February 4), confirming that she has just started filming with the programme.
Admitting that she is struggling with the medical jargon, she laughed: "It's like another language. It literally is like learning Japanese. I had to do this take, walking down the corridor with Corrie legend John Michie - who by the way is the naughtiest guy, as is Camilla who plays his daughter!
"We had to do this long, trekking walk and I had to say this stuff about astrocytomas and monoclonal antibodies. I got all the way to the end and just missed the last phrase of the sentence and said, 'No, I have to do it again!'
"It's hugely difficult. I keep saying, 'Why did they cast me for a neurosurgeon?'"
A Holby City spokesperson told Digital Spy that Wadia's first scenes will air in April and she will appear in five episodes.
Wadia left EastEnders in early 2013 and is now part of the cast of Still Open All Hours. The actress is also due to soon start shooting for a new movie Strangeways, Here We Come, which is being produced by her own film company.