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Lizzie Hopley

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Lizzie Hopley is a British actress and writer born in Liverpool who trained at Manchester University and RADA.

Acting work

Hopley's notable film and TV work include the forthcoming feature film Fackham Hall, co-written by Jimmy Carr and Dawson Bros; Black Doves with Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw; Steve McQueen's Blitz; The Reckoning (BBC/ITV), The Crown (Netflix), Time (BBC), The Devil's Hour (Amazon Studios), Brassic, Soulmates (Amazon AMC), The Long Song (BBC/Heyday Films), Little Boy Blue (ITV), Luther (BBC), Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre, Pierrepoint with Timothy Spall, The Thirteenth Tale with Vanessa Redgrave, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (ITV), Any Human Heart (C4), The Day of the Triffids (BBC) with Eddie Izzard and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased).

She recently appeared in the Globe Theatre's 2024 summer season in The Taming of the Shrew and Anne Odeke's historic debut play [https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/princess-essex/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw9p24BhB_EiwA8ID5BiHbOUsAV0UNEDJ_BBcuYPoyrUliDtjPNSCt_yRzsdS-83BRxr6RDxoC1W0QAvD_BwE Princess Essex]. In other theatre work, Lizzie has appeared as Margaret Thatcher in The Audience, written by Peter Morgan (2019). Other notable theatre work includes The Roaring Girl, Arden of Faversham and The White Devil for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), the original cast of Cheek by Jowl's world tour of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Kate in the [https://shakespeare.nd.edu/companies/actors-from-the-london-stage/ AFTLS]'s 2018 US tour of The Taming of the Shrew and Ang in the No. 1 tour of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party.

As an Associate Learning Practitioner with the RSC, Hopley delivers workshops across the UK, US, China, South Korea, Malta and Cayman Islands and provides regular content for their online learning programme. She gives practical tutorials at the British American Drama Academy and designed the first Professional Development Course for Guildford School of Acting where she taught as an Associate for over 10 years. She has delivered the practical sessions for the annual Shakespeare Foundation Certificate at Oxford University since 2011.

As a writer

Lizzie's sitcom pilot, "Green", won Pozzitive Television's Funny Dot Comp 2021.{{cite web | url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/pro/inside_track/funny-dot-comp-winners | title=Funny Dot Comp winners revealed - BCG Pro | website=British Comedy Guide | date=March 2021 }} In 2021, she won the Scribe Award for the audio play The Curse of Lady Macbeth.{{cite web | url=https://iamtw.org/2022-scribe-award-winners | title=2022 Scribe Award Winners – International Association of Media Tie-In Writers }} Her debut one-woman play Pramface explored the consequences of reality television and labelling people as chavs,{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2006/06/12/pramface_review_feature.shtml|title=BBC Wiltshire review of Pramface|date=2006-06-12|accessdate=2013-04-04}} and won the Plat Du Jour at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007.{{cite web | url=https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/1277662.pramface-star-liz-biz | title=Pramface star Liz is the biz | date=22 March 2007 }}

Her radio plays have included [https://archive.org/details/lizzie-hopley-the-cenci-family The Cenci Family] (nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award), which starred Sally Hawkins and Daniel Evans) for BBC Radio 4, The Elizabethan Beauty Law[https://www.theguardian.com/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,1663197,00.html Radio – Pick of the day, Phil Daoust. The Guardian, 9 December 2005] (which starred Annette Badland as Elizabeth I of England) and Salome[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/dramaon3/pip/tvq93 BBC – Drama on 3 – Salome] (which starred Ian Brooker, Florence Hoath and Kenneth Cranham) for BBC Radio 3.

She was commissioned to write "Killing Clovis Dardentor, an updated film adaptation of Jules Verne's Clovis Dardentor. She also wrote "Jam", a short film starring Stephen Fry, Annette Badland, Frank Skinner, Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee. In 2020, she wrote the short film "Mr Fairhurst", the story of a PE teacher in lockdown.

Big Finish Productions

Hopley has written and appeared in over 80 audio plays based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. Her first appearance was as the Eighth Doctor’s companion Gemma Griffin in Terror Firma. She also portrayed Yarvell, the sister of Davros, in the I, Davros mini-series and most recently, provides the voice of the TARDIS in audiobook [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/look-into-the-mind-of-the-tardis-with-an-excerpt-from-i-tardis Doctor Who: I, TARDIS : Memoirs of an Impossible Blue Box] by Steve Cole.

In 2007 she voiced the Mantasphid Queen in the Doctor Who animated adventure The Infinite Quest.

As a writer and actress, her work for Big Finish Productions includes:

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References

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External links

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Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Category:English voice actresses

Category:English television actresses

Category:English stage actresses

Category:Living people

Category:Actresses from Liverpool

Category:English dramatists and playwrights

Category:British women dramatists and playwrights

Category:21st-century British women writers

Category:Writers from Liverpool

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)