Charity Wakefield

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Charity Rose Wakefield (born September 18, 1980 in Sussex ) is an English actress .

Life

Wakefield was born in Sussex, England . At the age of a few months she moved with her mother Carlone to Villajoyosa , a small village near Alicante in Catalonia ( Spain ). When Charity was four, they both moved back to East Sussex, England. She has a half-sister named Olivia who is seven years her junior; her maternal grandfather is actor James Hayter .

Wakefield attended Bexhill College and studied acting at the Oxford School of Drama . Charity plays the violin and sings soprano .

Wakefield made her first film appearance in 2004 in (Past Present Future) Imperfect . In 2007 she played Rapunzel , a young tennis star, in a BBC One fairy tale production . She was also seen in Casualty 1907 on BBC One in 2007 .

In 2005, Wakefield starred in Yesterday Was a Weird Day , a play about the terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005 in London , as Constance in The Three Musketeers at Bristol Old Vic and Elaine in a theatrical adaptation of The Graduation at New Vic Theater . She also played the role of Susan in Baby with the Bathwater at the Old Red Lion Theater .

In 2008 Wakefield starred in W. Somerset Maugham 's The Circle at the Chichester Festival Theater and worked for the BBC in the pilot for the comedy series Freddi . She had another appearance in the Channel 4 drama Any Human Heart and a leading role in the British film noir Scar tissue . In 2012 she starred in Mockingbird Lane , an NBC remake of The Munsters .

In 2015 she played Mary Boleyn in the Wolf Hall miniseries on BBC Two . In the StarzPlay series The Great with Elle Fanning as Catherine II , she played Georgina Dymova, Peter III's lover.

Film rolls

  • 2004: (Past Present Future) Imperfect as a beanie
  • 2004: Hex as Lucy in "Life Goes On"
  • 2006: Jane Eyre as Miss Temple (unaired scenes)
  • 2007: Exitz as Billy
  • 2007: Doctors as Carole Hinton in the episode "Personal Services"
  • 2008: Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood
  • 2008: Fairy Tales as Billy Jean Brooke / Rapunzel in the episode "Rapunzel"
  • 2008: The Beachcombers (short film)
  • 2008: Casualty 1907 as Ethel Bennett
  • 2008: Burlesque Fairy Tales as Grace
  • 2008: Act of God as Laura
  • 2008: The Wonderful World of Freddi Faroubb as Yasmin
  • 2008: Post-It Love (short film by Si & Ad)
  • 2009: Casualty 1909 as Ethel Bennett
  • 2009: Legally Mad as Brady Hamm (pilot without sequels)
  • 2009: Day of the Flowers as Ailie
  • 2010: Any Human Heart as Land Fothergill ( Channel 4 )
  • 2012: Midsomer Murders as Ruth Lambert
  • 2012: Scar Tissue as Sam
  • 2012: Mockingbird Lane as Marilyn Munster ( NBC )
  • 2013: Agatha Christie's Marple as Molly Kendall in the episode "A Caribbean Mystery"
  • 2014: Serena
  • 2015: The Player (TV series)
  • 2015: Wolves ( Wolf Hall , TV series)
  • 2016: Doctor Who (TV series), Christmas special
  • 2020: The Great (TV series)

Individual evidence

  1. Lockyer, Daphne: Bring up the Bodice! Actress Charity Wakefield on playing the other Boleyn girl . Daily Mail . January 11, 2015. Accessed February 23, 2017.
  2. ^ A b c Levin, Angela: High hopes for charity . Daily Mail . May 17, 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  3. Hello! -Magazine: Wakefield, Charity - Who's who on UK TV ; Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  4. Lee Ingleby, Charity Wakefield and Shaun Williamson let down their hair in BBC One's Rapunzel. BBC 7 July 2007.
  5. More historical medical crises ... Casualty 1907 comes to BBC One. BBC 8 August 2007.
  6. Emma Whitelaw: Laugh - Then thank your lucky stars you weren't born a Dingleberry. indielondon.co.uk; Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  7. ^ Freddi: new BBC Four comedy commission. BBC 19 September 2008.
  8. ^ Say Hello to the New Marilyn Munster of Mockingbird Lane. dreadcentral.com; Retrieved December 19, 2014.

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