 One of her most notable television credits was playing Aisha Pinnock in the BBC sitcom "Us Girls" (1992), but she is most famous for playing the role of Lydia, the bubbly girlfriend of Steve Elliot (Mark Monero), in the popular BBC soap opera "EastEnders" (1995–1996).Marlaine was in a girl band called E'voke.In 2001 Gordon's boyfriend Martin Rimmer, a soldier with the Queen's Guard, died in the corridor of his barracks following a forbidden alcohol binge with his colleagues.