South Essex star Maisie Smith is set to Quit Eastenders in hopes of a Hollywood role, according to the Daily Mail.

The actress and TV dancer from Leigh has played Tiffany Butcher on and off for 13 years.

Sources close to the actress, 19, told MailOnline she's increasingly unlikely to extend her current contract when it expires in October, with bosses set to use her exit as part of the soap's dramatic Christmas storylines.

Maisie, who joined EastEnders when she was just six, has ambitions of starring on the big-screen and is hoping to crack Hollywood with a major film role.

Former Chalkwell Junior School pupil Maisie Smith, from Westcliff, shot to fame as a six-year-old playing cheeky EastEnders character Tiffany Dean - the youngest daughter of Bianca Jackson, played by Patsy Palmer.

She played the role of Tiffany from 2008 to 2014 and then in November 2016, she temporarily returned to the show in the role for a guest stint, before making a full-time return in January 2018.

A source told The Mail: 'Maisie is hugely ambitious and wants to test herself away from soaps. Starring in movies is a personal goal and seeing how well Ben and Himesh have done, it's given her hope she could be the next box office star from EastEnders.