Charlotte Riley

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Charlotte Frances Riley (born 29 December 1981) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Sarah Hurst in Easy Virtue (2008) and as Catherine Earnshaw in ITV's adaptation of Wuthering Heights (2009).[1]

Early life and education

Riley was born in Grindon, County Durham.[2] She was brought up in County Durham and attended Teesside High School from the age of 9 until 18.[3] She attended St Cuthbert's Society, Durham, from 2000 to 2003, performing with the sketch comedy group the Durham Revue[4] and in plays and musicals and graduating with a degree in English and Linguistics; she also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 2005 to 2007.[5]

Career

In 2004, Riley won the Sunday Times' Playwriting Award for Shaking Cecilia, which she co-wrote with Tiffany Wood.[6][7] In 2011, she played Anna in Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Anna of the Five Towns on BBC Radio 4.[8] She appeared in Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. She also appeared onstage at the Royal Court Theatre production of The Priory, by Michael Wynne.[9] She co-starred in London Has Fallen, the sequel to the 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen,[10] where she portrayed an MI6 agent Jacqueline Marshall.[11] She also portrayed Arabella Strange in the mini-series adaptation of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.[12] In 2018, she got a lead role in the BBC drama Press,[13] which was cancelled after its first series. In 2019, Riley played the role of Lottie / Ghost of Christmas Present in the BBC mini-series A Christmas Carol, based on the Charles Dickens novella of the same name.[14] She appeared in the Amazon Prime Video series The Peripheral.[15]

Personal life

In 2008, Riley and Tom Hardy met while playing fictional lovers Cathy and Heathcliff on the set of Wuthering Heights. In an interview Hardy said that although they became good friends while filming Wuthering Heights and The Take, they only began a relationship after filming the movie Warrior in 2009. Around the summer of 2010, Hardy proposed to Riley. Riley and Hardy's son was born in October 2015, and another in December 2018.[16]

Filmography

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Year Name Role Notes
2007 Grownups Chloe Episode: "Send"
Holby City Tanya Cusan Episode: "Someone to Watch Over Me"
2008 Survey No. 257 Emma Short film
Inspector George Gently Carmel O'Shaughnessy Episode: "The Burning Man"
Easy Virtue Sarah Hurst
2009 Wuthering Heights Catherine Earnshaw Television film
The Take Maggie Summers 4 episodes
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen Peggy Lytton Television film
Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Margot Bence Television film
2010 Foyle's War Mandy Dean Episode: "Killing Time"
2010–2011 DCI Banks Lucy Payne 3 episodes
2012 The Town Alice 3 episodes
World Without End Caris 8 episodes
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television
Entity Kate Hansen
2014 Edge of Tomorrow Nance [17]
2014, 2017 Peaky Blinders May Fitz Carleton Series 2 and 4
2015 In the Heart of the Sea Peggy Gardner Chase
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Arabella
2016 London Has Fallen MI6 Agent Jacquelin "Jax" Marshall [18]
Close to the Enemy Rachel Lombard BBC2 TV miniseries written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff
Dark Heart Juliette Wagstaffe TV series
2017 King Charles III Kate Television film
2018 Swimming with Men Swimming Coach
Press Holly Evans Miniseries
Trust Robina Lund Miniseries
2019 A Christmas Carol Lottie/Ghost of Christmas Present Miniseries
2022 The Peripheral Aelita
2026 Masters of the Universe Queen Marlena Post-production

References

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  1. ↑ Charlotte Riley Template:Webarchive, Screen Daily (10 July 2008)
  2. ↑ Profile Template:Webarchive, gazettelive.co.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  3. ↑ Desira, Joanna. "Charlotte Riley becomes star of stage and screen" Template:Webarchive, Evening Gazette, 3 November 2008.
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  5. ↑ Charlotte Riley profile Template:Webarchive, lamda.org.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Hewison, Robert.Student Drama Template:Webarchive, The Sunday Times (18 April 2004)
  7. ↑ Barker, Andy. New HeightsTemplate:Webarchive, Evening Standard (4 December 2008)
  8. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  9. ↑ Review of The Priory Template:Webarchive, guardian.co.uk, 27 November 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
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