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Charlotte Riley Born 29 December 1981
United KingdomOccupation Actress Years active 2007-present Spouse Tom Hardy (engaged) Charlotte Riley (born 29 December 1981) is an English actress. She is best known for her role Sarah Hurst in Easy Virtue and as Catherine Earnshaw in ITV's adaptation of Wuthering Heights.[1]
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Personal life
Riley comes from Grindon, Thorpe Thewles. She attended the private Teesside High School from age nine until eighteen.[2] Riley then attended St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University from 2000 to 2003, performing with the Durham Revue and in a number of 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.[3]
Charlotte is engaged to actor Tom Hardy. They met when they were cast as the star-crossed lovers in Wuthering Heights in 2009. They went on to star together in The Take. The pair announced their engagement in July 2010 after a year of dating. She currently lives in London.[4]
She also has been in the Royal Court's The Priory by Michael Wynne[5] for which she has had a number of positive reviews.
Career
In 2004, Riley won the Sunday Times' Playwriting Award for the play Shaking Cecilia, which she co-wrote with her university friend, and Durham Revue co-star, Tiffany Wood.[6][7]
Select credits
- DCI Banks: Aftermath (TV series) (2 episodes) as Lucy Payne (2010)
- Foyle's War (episode Killing Time) as Mandy Dean (2010)
- Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side as Margot Bence (2009)
- Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen as Peggy Lytton (2009)
- The Take as Maggie Summers (2009)
- Wuthering Heights as Catherine Earnshaw (2009)
- Easy Virtue as Sarah Hurst (2008)
- George Gently: The Burning Man as Carmel O'Shaughnessy (2008)
- Survey No. 257 as Emma (2008)
- Holby City (episode Someone to Watch Over Me) as Tanya Cusan (2007)
- Grownups (episode Send) as Chloe (2007)
References
- ^ CHARLOTTE RILEY, Screen Daily (10 July 2008)
- ^ Desira, Joanna - Charlotte Riley becomes star of stage and screen. Evening Gazette (3 November 2008)
- ^ Charlotte Riley, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- ^ Williams, Amy - Small-screen gems: The young British actresses to watch, Daily Mail (19 September 2008)
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/nov/27/play-the-priory-review
- ^ Hewison, Robert - Student Drama, The Sunday Times (18 April 2004)
- ^ Barker, Andy - New Heights, Evening Standard (4 December 2008)
External links
Categories:- 1981 births
- Alumni of Durham University
- Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- Living people
- People from Stockton-on-Tees
- English television actors
- People educated at Teesside High School
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