Ruby Bentall
{{short description|British actress}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ruby Bentall
| image = Ruby Bentall 2012.png
| imagesize =
| caption = Bentall in The Paradise 2012
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|4|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = Camden, London, England
| education = Richmond upon Thames College (2006, BTEC ND)
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 2006–present
| spouse =
| parents = Janine Duvitski
Paul Bentall
| website =
}}
Ruby Bentall (born 3 April 1988) is an English actress, known for playing Minnie in Lark Rise to Candleford, Mary Bennet in Lost in Austen, Verity Poldark in the 2015 BBC adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark novels, and Angelica in The Serpent Queen.
Background
Bentall was born at home in Camden, London. She is the daughter of actors Janine Duvitski and Paul Bentall.[http://blog.tormentedthemovie.com/?p=871 TORMENTED | Official Movie Blog | Emily (Ruby Bentall)] Retrieved on 18 July 2009. The family moved to Petersham outside Richmond when Bentall was eight. She attended Grey Court School and went to Richmond upon Thames College between 2004 and 2006, graduating with a BTEC National Diploma in Performance.{{cite web|title=Performing Arts Profile: Ruby Bentall|publisher=Richmond upon Thames College|url=http://www.richmond-utcoll.ac.uk/studentProfiles/Alumni%20Performing%20Arts_PDFs/Ruby%20Bentall.pdf|accessdate=18 July 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008022402/http://www.richmond-utcoll.ac.uk/studentProfiles/Alumni%20Performing%20Arts_PDFs/Ruby%20Bentall.pdf|archivedate=8 October 2011|df=dmy-all}}
Bentall has three siblings,{{cite news |title=One foot in two worlds|url= http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article535536.ece |author=Law, Cally |newspaper=The Times |date=19 June 2005 |accessdate=18 July 2009}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} and two elder half-siblings from her father's first marriage. She currently lives in London. Her younger sister Edith is the lead singer of the band FOURS.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sheengate.co.uk/richmond-and-barnes/2012/11/27/family-jewel-interview-with-ruby-bentall/|title=Sheengate Publishing – Local Lifestyle Magazines in Surrey & SW London}}
Career
Bentall's first professional acting job was an episode of Holby City, which she filmed in 2006 while still at Richmond College. Her other television credits include You Can Choose Your Friends, Doctors, Oliver Twist (2007) and New Tricks. She played Mary Bennet in the 2008 mini-series Lost in Austen, a performance described as "by far the most interesting interpretation of the sanctimonious middle Bennet daughter of Pride and Prejudice yet".[http://janitesonthejames.blogspot.com/2009/02/ruby-bentall-most-memorable-mary-bennet.html Jane Austen Today: Ruby Bentall - A Most Memorable Mary Bennet] Retrieved on 18 July 2009. In 2009 she joined the regular cast of Lark Rise to Candleford, playing Minnie.{{cite news |title=Lark Rise to Candleford returns with lesson for coping with the recession |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4076276/Lark-Rise-to-Candleford-returns-with-lesson-for-coping-with-the-recession.html |author=Singh, Anita |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=2 January 2009 |accessdate=18 July 2009}}
Bentall made her stage debut at the National Theatre in 2008, appearing in productions of DNA and The Miracle. She has also lent her voice to the BBC Radio 4 drama Sister Agnes Investigates. She played Alice in Alice, an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, written by Laura Wade, at the Sheffield Crucible in June 2010. She played Anya in Remembrance Day at the Royal Court Theatre in March - April 2011 and the role of Victoria in the Mike Leigh directed play Grief at the Royal National Theatre in London.
In January 2014, she starred as Julie in a stage adaptation of The Cement Garden in London at The Vaults, Waterloo.{{cite web |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/article/Photo-Flash-First-Look-at-THE-CEMENT-GARDEN-and-FEAR-AND-LOATHING-at-VAULT-Festival-2014-20140131 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |title=Photo Flash: First Look at THE CEMENT GARDEN and 'FEAR AND LOATHING' at VAULT Festival 2014 |author=BWW News Desk |date=2014-01-31 |accessdate=2019-08-20 |quote=George Mackay (Jack) and Ruby Bentall (Julie) in The Cement Garden.}}
On 30 March 2014, it was announced that Bentall would be playing Ross Poldark's cousin Verity in the new BBC One version of Poldark, broadcast in 2015.{{cite web |title=Eleanor Tomlinson to star as Demelza in BBC One drama Poldark |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/eleanor-tomlinson-poldark.html |publisher=BBC Media Centre |date=30 March 2014 |accessdate=30 March 2014}} Bentall made a guest appearance in Holby City in July 2018.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bc6wqx/credits|title=BBC One – Holby City, Series 20, Two for Joy – Credits|work=BBC Online|accessdate=25 July 2018}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Film ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2009
| Emily | |
| 2010
| Margaret Walter's Maid | |
| 2019
| The Personal History of David Copperfield | Janet | |
| 2020
|Sarah | |
| 2022
| Connie Bukes | |
| 2023
| Cat | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Show ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="1"| 2006
| Robyn Dent | 1 episode |
| rowspan="3"| 2007
| You Can Choose Your Friends | Phoebe Snell | |
| Doctors
| Poppy Foster | 1 episode |
| Oliver Twist
| Charlotte | 1 episode |
| rowspan="2"| 2008
| Heidi | 1 episode |
| Lost in Austen
| 4 episodes |
| rowspan="2"| 2009
|The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler | Stefania | |
| The Bill
| Kim Patterson | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="1"| 2009–2011
| Minnie Mude | Series regular |
| rowspan="1"| 2012
| Pauline | Series 1 regular |
| rowspan="1"| 2014
| Linda | 1 episode |
| rowspan="1"| 2015–2018
| Poldark | Verity Poldark | |
| rowspan="1"| 2015
| Hilary "Hils" Barnstaple | 10 episodes |
| rowspan="1"| 2017
| Absentia | Molly / Lolly | 1 episode |
| 2018
| Cassie Lincombe | Episode: "Two for Joy" |
| 2018
| Stella Starling | Episode 20-3: "Drawing Dead" |
| 2020
| Industry | Lucinda Young |
| 2022
| Angelica | |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2182161}}
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Category:English people of Polish descent
Category:Actors from the London Borough of Camden
Category:Actresses from London
Category:English television actresses
Category:English film actresses
Category:English stage actresses
Category:English radio actresses
Category:21st-century English actresses