Zoe Tapper

Infobox Actor
name = Zoe Tapper

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birthname = Zoe Tapper
birthdate = 1981 (age 27)
birthplace = Bromley, Kent, England
othername = Zoë Tapper
occupation = Actress
yearsactive = 2003-present

Zoe Tapper (born 1981) is an English actress who first came to prominence playing Nell Gwynne in Richard Eyre's award-winning film "Stage Beauty" (2004).

Her other film roles include Gwendolyn in the award-winning "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont" (2005), alongside Joan Plowright, and "These Foolish Things" (2006), alongside Anjelica Huston.

Starring roles on television include Mary Collins in "A Harlot's Progress" for Channel 4, Jane in Oliver Parker's "The Private Life of Samuel Pepys" (alongside Steve Coogan), Gemma in the first series of the Sky One UK television series "Hex", Hermia in the 2005 BBC television adaptation/modernisation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Jenny Maple in the BBC miniseries "20,000 Streets Under the Sky", and appeared as Sheila Steafel in the 2008 BBC television play "The Curse of Steptoe".

On stage she has appeared in "Epitaph For George Dillon" in the West End, and "Othello" at Shakespeare's Globe.

Background

Tapper is from Bromley in Kent. She trained at the Academy Drama School and at Central School of Speech and Drama, from which she graduated in the spring of 2003, days before taking on her first film role. She is of English ancestry.

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