 Speed's big television break came in 1993 aged 17, when she won the part of Natalie Price in the BBC soap "EastEnders".She played the brow beaten best friend of Bianca Jackson (played by Patsy Palmer), making her first appearance on-screen in January 1994.Speed quit the soap after a year as she felt overwhelmed and unprepared by all the press attention she received from being in such a high-profile show.