Charlotte Riley

{{Infobox person

| name = Charlotte Riley

| image = Charlotte Riley May 28, 2014 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Riley in 2014

| birth_name = Charlotte Frances Riley

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|12|29|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Grindon, County Durham, England

| education = Teesside High School

| alma_mater = St Cuthbert's Society, Durham (BA)
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

| death_place =

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 2007–present

| spouse = {{marriage|Tom Hardy|July 2014}}

| children = 2

| relatives = Chips Hardy (father-in-law)

| website =

}}

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).[http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=39787 Charlotte Riley] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825021551/https://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=39787 |date=25 August 2017}}, Screen Daily (10 July 2008)

Early life and education

Riley was born in Grindon, County Durham.[http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2008/11/03/charlotte-riley-becomes-star-of-stage-and-screen-84229-22163256 Profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113121625/http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2008/11/03/charlotte-riley-becomes-star-of-stage-and-screen-84229-22163256/ |date=13 November 2008}}, gazettelive.co.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2014. She was brought up in County Durham and attended Teesside High School from the age of 9 until 18.Desira, Joanna. [http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2008/11/03/charlotte-riley-becomes-star-of-stage-and-screen-84229-22163256 "Charlotte Riley becomes star of stage and screen"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113121625/http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2008/11/03/charlotte-riley-becomes-star-of-stage-and-screen-84229-22163256/ |date=13 November 2008}}, Evening Gazette, 3 November 2008. She attended St Cuthbert's Society, Durham, from 2000 to 2003, performing with the sketch comedy group the Durham Revue{{cite web |last=Armstrong |first=Neil |date=30 May 2015 |title=Charlotte Riley: 'I really was only joking but Tom Cruise thought I was serious.' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/11639922/Charlotte-Riley-I-really-was-only-joking-but-Tom-Cruise-thought-I-was-serious..html |work=The Daily Telegraph}} 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.[http://www.lamda.org.uk/studentfiles/2007/e2007/RILEY,%20Charlotte.pdf Charlotte Riley profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317025801/http://www.lamda.org.uk/studentfiles/2007/e2007/RILEY%2C%20Charlotte.pdf |date=17 March 2007}}, lamda.org.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2014.

Career

In 2004, Riley won the Sunday Times' Playwriting Award for Shaking Cecilia, which she co-wrote with Tiffany Wood.Hewison, Robert.[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article823356.ece Student Drama] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100530111341/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article823356.ece |date=30 May 2010}}, The Sunday Times (18 April 2004)Barker, Andy. [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/es-magazine-fashion/article-23593242-details/New+Heights/article.do New Heights]{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627121440/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/es-magazine-fashion/article-23593242-details/New%2BHeights/article.do |date=27 June 2009}}, Evening Standard (4 December 2008) In 2011, she played Anna in Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Anna of the Five Towns on BBC Radio 4.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2017/21/anna-of-the-five-towns|title = Anna of the Five Towns}} 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.[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/nov/27/play-the-priory-review Review of The Priory] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101091045/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/nov/27/play-the-priory-review |date=1 January 2017}}, guardian.co.uk, 27 November 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2014. She co-starred in London Has Fallen, the sequel to the 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen,{{cite web |last=Rosser |first=Michael |date=3 November 2014 |title=London Has Fallen begins filming |url=http://www.screendaily.com/news/london-has-fallen-begins-filming/5079401.article? |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109220947/http://www.screendaily.com/news/london-has-fallen-begins-filming/5079401.article# |archive-date=9 January 2015 |access-date=28 January 2015 |work=Screen Daily}} where she portrayed an MI6 agent Jacqueline Marshall.{{cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Matt |date=8 May 2015 |title=First London Has Fallen Poster Is Already Hating British Landmarks |url=https://collider.com/london-has-fallen-poster-destroys-big-ben/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510055418/http://collider.com/london-has-fallen-poster-destroys-big-ben/ |archive-date=10 May 2015 |access-date=8 May 2015 |publisher=Collider}} She also portrayed Arabella Strange in the mini-series adaptation of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.{{cite web |last=Tartaglione |first=Nancy |date=25 October 2013 |title=Eddie Marsan To Topline 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' For BBC One/BBC America |url=https://deadline.com/2013/10/eddie-marsan-to-topline-jonathan-strange-mr-norrell-for-bbc-onebbc-america-620122/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307222332/http://deadline.com/2013/10/eddie-marsan-to-topline-jonathan-strange-mr-norrell-for-bbc-onebbc-america-620122/ |archive-date=7 March 2016 |access-date=1 May 2016 |work=Deadline Hollywood}} In 2018, she got a lead role in the BBC drama Press,{{cite web |title=David Suchet, Charlotte Riley and Ben Chaplin to star as newspaper bosses in new BBC1 drama from Doctor Foster writer |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/david-suchet-charlotte-riley-and-ben-chaplin-to-star-as-newspaper-bosses-in-new-bbc1-drama-from-doctor-foster-writer/ |website=Radio Times}} 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.{{cite web |title=BBC One – A Christmas Carol, Series 1, Episode 1 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000csdm |access-date=24 December 2019 |publisher=BBC }} She appeared in the Amazon Prime Video series The Peripheral.{{cite web |last=Petski |first=Denise |date=2 June 2021 |title='The Peripheral': Louis Herthum, Chris Coy, Melinda Page Hamilton Among 5 Cast In Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy's Amazon Series |work=Deadline Hollywood |url=https://deadline.com/2021/06/the-peripheral-louis-herthum-chris-coy-melinda-page-hamilton-cast-jonathan-nolan-lisa-joys-amazon-series-1234767906/ |access-date=2 June 2021 |archive-date=2 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602174422/https://deadline.com/2021/06/the-peripheral-louis-herthum-chris-coy-melinda-page-hamilton-cast-jonathan-nolan-lisa-joys-amazon-series-1234767906/ |url-status=live}}

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. On 4 July 2014, the couple married in an intimate ceremony at Chateau de Roussan, attended by family and friends including Hardy's son from a previous relationship. Riley and Hardy's son was born in October 2015, and another in December 2018.{{cite web |title=Who Is Tom Hardy's Wife? All About Actress Charlotte Riley |url=https://people.com/movies/who-is-tom-hardy-charlotte-riley/ |website=Peoplemag |access-date=12 June 2024 |language=en}}

Filmography

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!Year

!Name

!Role

!Notes

rowspan="2"|2007

|Grownups

|Chloe

|Episode: "Send"

Holby City

|Tanya Cusan

|Episode: "Someone to Watch Over Me"

rowspan="3"|2008

|Survey No. 257

|Emma

|Short film

Inspector George Gently

|Carmel O'Shaughnessy

|Episode: "The Burning Man"

Easy Virtue

|Sarah Hurst

rowspan="4"|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

rowspan="3"|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

|{{cite web |date=24 August 2012 |title=Charlotte Riley Joins Tom Cruise In All You Need Is Kill |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Charlotte-Riley-Joins-Tom-Cruise-All-You-Need-Kill-32626.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127130937/http://www.cinemablend.com/new/charlotte-riley-joins-tom-cruise-all-you-need-kill-32626.html |archive-date=27 November 2012 |access-date=10 March 2013 |publisher=CinemaBlend.com}}

2014, 2017

|Peaky Blinders

|May Fitz Carleton

|Series 2 and 4

rowspan="2"|2015

|In the Heart of the Sea

|Peggy Gardner Chase

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

|Arabella

rowspan="3"|2016

|London Has Fallen

|MI6 Agent Jacquelin "Jax" Marshall

|{{cite web |last=Najafi |first=Babak |title=London Has Fallen |date=4 March 2016 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3300542/fullcredits |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426082923/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3300542/fullcredits |access-date=4 March 2014 |archive-date=26 April 2015 |url-status=live}}

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

rowspan="3"|2018

|Swimming with Men