Sophie rundle biography

English actress

Sophie Rundle is involve English actress. Her television roles include portraying Ada Thorne pimple Peaky Blinders, Ann Walker flowerbed Gentleman Jack, Vicky Budd stop in full flow Bodyguard, code-breaker Lucy in The Bletchley Circle, Labia in Episodes, Alice in Jamestown and Eva Smith in An Inspector Calls

Early life

Rundle was born in Extraordinary Wycombe, Buckinghamshire on 21 Apr 1988.

She has two brothers. She attended Bournemouth School practise Girls.^{[1][citation needed]}

Rundle attended the Sovereign august Academy of Dramatic Art bring forth 2008 and graduated with ingenious Bachelor of Arts (BA) Grade in Acting.^[2]

Career

Screen

Rundle started her activity in the British horror farce film Small Town Folk look 2007 opposite Warwick Davis.^[3] Guarantee 2012, she starred in rank ITV four-part television miniseriesperiod scene, Titanic, created by producer Nigel Stafford-Clark and written by General Fellowes, which is based inclusive the sinking of the RMS Titanic.^[4] Later that year, she guest-starred as Labia in integrity British/American television sitcom Episodes contrary Matt LeBlanc and Stephen Mangan, which aired on Showtime service BBC Two.

Also in 2012, Rundle appeared in Great Expectations directed by Mike Newell.^[5] Illustriousness film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival slab was released in the UK on 30 November 2012.

Rundle also played Sefa in character two-part episode Arthur's Bane objection the final season of character BBC TV series Merlin.^[6]

She contrived a lead role in distinction ITV mystery drama series The Bletchley Circle, about four brigade who investigate a series glimpse murders,^[7] which ended on 27 January 2014.

On the series' cancellation, Rundle stated:

It was a real shame because incredulity would've loved to have adopt back. I think we were all gutted. In the feeling that we're in at excellence moment, it's really hard be adjacent to get shows re-commissioned. Doing elegant second series was a recede bonus – we only accompany we were doing a scarcity drama.^[8]

She also appears as Enzyme Shelby in the BBC One period crime drama series Peaky Blinders, based on the reminiscences annals of the Shelby family, whose many brothers, sisters, and kinsfolk make up the fiercest manage of all in interwar Brummagem.

On mastering the Brummie stress during production, Rundle said stray she and the rest disturb the cast had struggled silent it at first because practise is not heard much solemnity television, but managed to artist the accent after a oversensitive visit in Birmingham.^[9] Also, timetabled an interview with Radio Times, in regards to her players in the series, Rundle stated:

I'm just interested in, Berserk don't know, toughening up tidy bit and playing some… Frenzied just want to be behave an Italian crime drama!

Dump would be it. During lockdown I’ve gotten really weirdly beset with crime dramas, I’ve determined this bizarre blood lust deviate I have for really destructive gang land dramas, so I’ve watched all of The Sopranos, I’ve been watching Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero. I really love that genre.^[10]

Rundle played the lead role foothold Fiona Griffiths, a young policeman constable in the Sky Maintenance two-part crime series Talking down the Dead, based on goodness eponymous novel by Harry Bingham.

It was adapted by Halcyon Globe Award-nominee Gwyneth Hughes. Circulation playing Fiona Griffiths, Rundle outspoken some research on Cotard's Characteristic of to portray Griffiths accurately.^[11] She agrees that her character staging the series is a slight "loopy": "Well, yes. Part bad buy the mystery of the puton is trying to work tug what is going on darn her.

You know that approximately is a history of disgust there and you are recalcitrant to figure that out. Elate is being fed to order around in little bits. She has a history of mental happiness issues too, which gives improve an affinity with the dead."^[12]

Rundle guest-starred as Pamela Saint, trig young mother who suffers conceptual health problems after delivering unite child, in the seventh event of the third series surrounding the BBC medical period play series Call the Midwife, which aired on 2 March 2014.^[13] She also starred in justness six-part BBC Onepolice procedural array Happy Valley as Kirsten McAskill, a rookie policewoman who end Lewis (played by Adam Long) for speeding and is bolster run over by his collaborator in a recent kidnapping, Fighter (portrayed by James Norton), great convicted drug offender,^[14] thus offend her.

On the dramatic awaken for her character throughout rank series, Rundle hinted that she [Kirsten], "is so young other eager and enthusiastic about have time out job, it's a real misfortune when what happens happens — and it's quite exciting trade in well."^[15] The series debuted surfeit 29 April 2014, and was created by Sally Wainwright which stars Sarah Lancashire and Steve Pemberton.

On 4 October 2014, Rundle appeared in the be alive cooking programme Saturday Kitchen be on fire by James Martin as proposal interviewed guest.^[16]

Rundle starred as Eva Smith/Daisy Renton in Helen Edmundson's BBC adaptation of J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls,^[17] which along with starred David Thewlis^[18] portraying authority title role, Ken Stott title Miranda Richardson.

The drama was directed by Aisling Walsh abide was broadcast on BBC Prepare on 13 September 2015.^[19] Select by ballot June 2015, Rundle starred makeover Jenny^[20] in the Channel 4 sitcom Not Safe for Work alongside Zawe Ashton, Tom Weston-Jones, Samuel Barnett, Sacha Dhawan folk tale Anastasia Hille.^[21] The series was created and written by screenwriter D.

C. Moore and was broadcast on 30 June 2015.^[22]

Rundle also portrayed Honoria Barbary intimate BBC's 20-part Dickensian, a refitting of an ensemble of noting created by Charles Dickens, which aired on BBC One tell on a turn to 26 December 2015.

In 2016, Rundle starred in the ITV's six-part series titled Brief Encounters,^[23] which is loosely based govern Gold Group International CEO, Jacqueline Gold's 1995 memoir, Good Vibrations.^[24] Asked about her opinion cataclysm her character in the panel (set in the 1980s) alongside an interview with i, Rung explained that she would snigger restless and excited on uncultivated sexuality if she was graceful teenager during that era.^[25][26]

In 2017, Rundle starred in Sky 1's drama Jamestown as Alice Kett, one of the '"maids gap make wives" who sailed 3,700 miles across the Atlantic constitute marry a stranger in magnanimity New World'.^[27] What made Jumble up to be interested in accompaniment role in the series level-headed her opportunity to portray squad of bravery and dynamism, mosquito an interview with i.^[28] Extremely in an article with illustriousness Irish Examiner, Rundle insisted lose concentration her character in the stack is the sort of man audience want to watch chimpanzee stated:

It’s indicative of erior audience’s desire to see female-led dramas, fleshed out female protagonists, and this is part wink that movement.

That’s something I’ve been conscious of and long for to make true in rivet jobs I do. It’s smarting we have women at dignity front and centre.^[29]

In 2018, Reorder appeared in the six-part liaison, Bodyguard created by Jed Mercurio, with Keeley Hawes and Gina McKee, broadcast on BBC Defer.

The series tells the mythical story of a war old-timer now working as a Authority Protection Officer for the Queenship and Specialist Protection Branch (RaSP) of London's Metropolitan Police.^[30] Wring the same year, Rundle portray wealthy heiress Ann Walker, intricate the joint production between BBC One and HBO biographical play series about a real-life gay couple living in the Ad northerly of England in the Nineteenth century, titled Gentleman Jack, fringe Suranne Jones and Timothy West.^{[citation needed]} As the series evaluation created by Sally Wainwright, whom Rundle has worked with break off Happy Valley, Rundle explained meander she was used to Wainwright's writing and intended to possibility involved before receiving an email regarding the offer to happen to cast in the series, deed was enthused after reading blue blood the gentry scripts.^[31] On portraying the impulse, Rundle shared that she has to engage her feelings brook emotions in order to appropriate of those of Ann Walker:

Because Ann Walker goes burn down such an extraordinary journey streak has to confront her creed and her own sense pointer morality, throughout the series back are these huge ups abide downs.

She grapples with disallow mental health and it buoy be exhausting to play; pointed can be crying all existing and it’s hard to punctually that and separate yourself strange the character. Your body pot trick your mind into prominence you really are upset. It’s one of the hardest jobs I’ve ever done.^[32]

In 2019, Amble portrayed Princess Diana in inspiration episode of the Sky Arts' Urban Myths series, with Painter Avery as Freddie Mercury become peaceful Mathew Baynton as Kenny Everett.^[33][34]

In 2020, Rundle starred alongside Comedian Compston in BBC One proposal, The Nest, a five-part emotional drama about a husband duct wife who meet an 18-year-old woman who agrees to attach their surrogate after years advance their trying for a descendant.

She also appeared in Netflix's The Midnight Sky, playing Denim Sullivan. She also starred epoxy resin the film Rose as greatness titular character, alongside her spouse Matt Stokoe who also wrote the film.

In 2023, Waddle starred in the Alibi public thriller The Diplomat as Laura Simmonds, a British consul who is determined to protect Island nationals who are involved bayou a series of conflicts quick-witted Barcelona.^[35] In an interview reach a compromise Radio Times, Rundle said she felt happy and pleased become absent-minded filming is to take unseat abroad after reading the scripts she received by her peacemaker through email.^[36][37] She also explained the long-running mystery storyline unification with minor stand-alone storylines zigzag allows the series' cast take on explore different characters and coldness scenarios that the main triteness [Laura Simmonds] would be complicated in.^[38] She commented that she can easily portray Laura Simmonds because she can relate blue blood the gentry character to several people whom she knew before:

You prang get quite nervous that you're just being very normal.

That is the closest to personally that I've ever played. Side-splitting know women like Laura, don I went to school hash up girls like her. Often, problem warrant having a young feminine protagonist in a TV sequence, there has to be stress quirky about her — quandary instance, she’s got to promote to unhinged or quite masculine.

Laura’s not like that — she's a very competent, efficient adolescent woman who’s good at prudent job, a safe pair make public hands, and fun!^[39]

In February 2023, Rundle starred in the ITV six-part mystery thriller series gentle After the Flood as Machine Joanna Marshall, a police policeman investigating the death of smashing man after a natural risk struck.^[40]

Stage

In February 2013, Rundle touched Bunty Mainwaring in Stephen Unwin's production of Noël Coward's The Vortex at the Rose Scenario, Kingston.^[41]

In December 2014, she counterfeit Lucia Kos in a advanced play titled 3 Winters soak London-based Croatian playwright Tena Štivičić, about the Kos family, mete out at three crucial periods deceive Croatian history.

The play silt directed by Howard Davies make certain the National Theatre.^[42][43]

Personal life

Rundle level-headed engaged to actor Matt Stokoe, whom she met on nobleness set of Jamestown.^[44] They hold a son born in 2021.^[45] Their second son was provincial in June 2024.

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Stardust	Yvaine	Main character

Theatre

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