Lara Pulver

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Lara Pulver (born 1 September 1980) is an English actress, best known for playing Erin Watts in the BBC spy drama Spooks and Irene Adler on BBC's TV adaptation Sherlock. She won the 2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical in the West End's revival of Gypsy.

Early life and education

Pulver was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England on 1 September 1980 and grew up in the village of Longfield in Kent.[1][2] Her father is from a Jewish family; her mother converted to Judaism when they married.[3][4] She has a sister, Erika, who is four years older and works as a teacher.[3]

Pulver attended the National Youth Music Theatre between 1994 and 1998, as well as The Liz Burville Dance Centre, Bexley.[5] In 1997, she began studying at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts, and graduated in 2000.[6][7]

Career

Pulver was nominated for the 2008 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the role of Lucille Frank in the first West End production of the musical Parade at the Donmar Warehouse. She reprised the role in the Los Angeles production at the Mark Taper Forum opposite T.R. Knight.

In 2008, Pulver recorded a song for the CD Act One – Songs from the Musicals of Alexander S. Bermange. Pulver joined the cast of the BBC's Robin Hood in 2009 as Isabella, the sister of Guy of Gisbourne.[8]

In 2010, Pulver joined the cast of the third series of HBO's True Blood as Sookie Stackhouse's fairy godmother, Claudine Crane.[9]

Pulver played Erin Watts, the new chief of Section D, in the tenth and final series of BBC spy drama Spooks, a role she reprised in the 2015 feature film Spooks: The Greater Good

Pulver played Irene Adler in "A Scandal in Belgravia", the first episode of the second series of Sherlock.[10] Her appearance caused an "enormous" response,[11] with the Evening Standard calling the scene where she greets Sherlock Holmes nude "infamous".[12] To The Telegraph, Pulver called the scene "empowering".[13] The BBC received over 100 complaints about the footage.[14]

In 2012, she joined the cast of Da Vinci's Demons as the "seductive and politically-minded" Clarice Orsini, a series regular and wife of Elliot Cowan's character Lorenzo Medici.[15]

In 2014, she played Louise in a revival of Gypsy at the Chichester Festival Theatre.[16] The production transferred to the West End in April 2015.[17] Pulver won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for the same role in the Savoy Theatre production of Gypsy. Louise is actually the title role, as "Louise" becomes the real-life early-20th-century American strip-tease sensation Gypsy Rose Lee, on whose memoirs the musical is based. Pulver's co-star in the Savoy production, Imelda Staunton, won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as the larger-than-life Mama Rose.

Personal life

In 2003, Pulver met American actor Josh Dallas while he was in the UK studying at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. They married in December 2007 in Devon.[18][19] Dallas confirmed their divorce in an interview on Bob Rivers's radio show on 2 December 2011.[7]

Pulver began dating fellow Spooks actor Raza Jaffrey in 2012 and married on 27 December 2014. The couple have two children.[20]

Acting credits

Film

List of Lara Pulver film credits
Year Title Role Notes
2010 Legacy Diane Shaw
2011 Language of a Broken Heart Violet
2014 Edge of Tomorrow Karen Lord Non-speaking cameo
2015 A Patch of Fog Lucy
2015 Spooks: The Greater Good Erin Watts
2016 Underworld: Blood Wars Semira
2021 The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf Tetra Voice role

Television

List of Lara Pulver television credits
Year Show Role Notes
2009 Robin Hood Isabella TV series (8 episodes in Series 3)
2010 The Special Relationship Intern TV movie
2010 True Blood Claudine Crane TV series (5 episodes)
2011 Spooks Erin Watts TV series (main cast in Series 10)
2012, 2014 Sherlock Irene Adler "A Scandal in Belgravia" and "The Sign of Three"
2012 Coming Up Annette "Camouflage"
2013–2015 Da Vinci's Demons Clarice Orsini TV series; main role
2013 Skins: Fire Victoria TV series; minor role
2014 Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond Ann O'Neill TV series (4 episodes); Main role
2015 Spooks: The Greater Good Erin Watts Reprising her role from the series
2016–2017 Quantico Charlotte Bishop Episodes: "ODENVY" and "EPICSHELTER"
2017 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Paula Episode: "Real Life"
2018 The City and the City Katrynia TV series
2020 The Alienist: Angel of Darkness Karen Stratton TV series
2021 Dota: Dragon's Blood Princess Mirana TV series; main voice role
2022 The Split Kate Pencastle Main role (series 3)
2022 Pantheon News Anchor, Olivia Guest voice role; Episodes: "The Gods Will Not Be Slain", "Olivia & Farhad"
2023 Maternal Catherine MacDiarmid TV series; main role[21]
2024–2025 Blood of Zeus Persephone 11 episodes
2025 MobLand Bella Harrigan [22]

Stage

Other

  • Game of Thrones (2014; Video Game), as Lady Elissa Forrester
  • Sherlock Series By Intouch Games And Slot Factory, as Irene Adler
  • Dota 2, as the "Mirana of Nightsilver" persona item, reprising her role from Dragon's Blood

Awards and nominations

Television

List of television awards and nominations received by Lara Pulver
Year Award Category Work Result Template:Refh
2012 Critics' Choice Television Award Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries Sherlock Nominated [26][27]

Theatre

List of theatre awards and nominations received by Lara Pulver
Year Award Category Work Result Template:Refh
2008 Laurence Olivier Awards Best Actress in a Musical Parade Nominated [28]
2016 Laurence Olivier Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical Gypsy Won [29]
2025 Laurence Olivier Awards Best Actress in a Musical Fiddler on the Roof Nominated

References

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