Victoria Hamilton

{{Infobox person

| name = Victoria Hamilton

| image =

| caption =

| birth_name = Victoria Sharp

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1971|4|5}}

| birth_place = Wimbledon, London, England

| spouse = {{marriage|Mark Bazeley |2008}}

| children = 2

| occupation = Actress

| alma_mater = London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

| awards = Evening Standard Theatre Award (2004)
Critics' Circle Theatre Award (2000, 2004, 2017)

}}

Victoria Hamilton (born 5 April 1971) is an English actress.

After training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Hamilton began her career in classical theatre, appearing in productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. In 2002, she appeared in the London stage play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg alongside Clive Owen and later Eddie Izzard.

She made her Broadway debut in 2003 when the production moved to New York, where she earned a Tony Award nomination.

She won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award and Evening Standard Theatre Award for her performance in the play Suddenly, Last Summer, held in 2004 at the Lyceum Theatre.

Hamilton has often worked in the costume drama genre. During the 1990s, she had supporting roles in three Jane Austen adaptations: the 1995 serial Pride and Prejudice, the 1995 film Persuasion, and the 1999 film Mansfield Park.

Hamilton won the role of Queen Victoria in the 2001 television production Victoria & Albert, portraying the monarch in her early years. From 2008 to 2011, Hamilton was a cast member in the BBC1 series Lark Rise to Candleford. In 2016–17, she portrayed Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in the Netflix historical drama series The Crown.

Early life and education

Hamilton was born on 5 April 1971 in Wimbledon, London to a non-theatrical family.{{Cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2588600087.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911060310/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2588600087.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 September 2016|title=Victoria Hamilton profile at|work=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television|date=1 January 2007|access-date=7 May 2016}} She attended St Hilary's School, a public school in Surrey, from 1974 to 1982, then Prior's Field School, Godalming, until 1987.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sthilarysschool.com/sha|title=St Hilary's Association|publisher=St Hilary's School|access-date=13 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417052427/http://www.sthilarysschool.com/sha|archive-date=17 April 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

She initially intended to read English at Bristol University, before opting to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from which she graduated.{{cite web |title=Victoria Hamilton|date=21 April 2008|url=https://officiallondontheatre.com/news/victoria-hamilton-71976/ |website=officiallondontheatre.com |publisher=Society of London Theatre |access-date=6 April 2025}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.lamda.org.uk/graduates/their-awards|title=Their awards|publisher=London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art|access-date=13 April 2016}}

Career

She began her acting career in classical theatre, spending the first five years appearing in productions by companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. She stayed with the Royal Shakespeare Company for eighteen months. She commented in 2001 that it was "very unfashionable" to begin a career in classical theatre, but she had sought to emulate the careers of actors like Judi Dench and Ian Holm who "started in rep and slowly built themselves into the position where they could juggle theatre and film".

=Stage=

In 1995, Hamilton appeared in Ibsen's The Master Builder directed by Peter Hall, starring Alan Bates and Gemma Jones and performed at the Haymarket Theatre in the West End of London. The Independent described Hamilton as a "formidable talent" despite being a newcomer, and noted that she had previously appeared in two performances held at the Orange Tree Theatre in London, one of them being an adaptation of a play by James Saunders.{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/reviews-theatre-the-master-builder-haymarket-theatre-royal-london-1577869.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220817/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/reviews-theatre-the-master-builder-haymarket-theatre-royal-london-1577869.html |archive-date=17 August 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Reviews: Theatre The Master Builder Haymarket Theatre Royal, London |first=Paul |last=Taylor |work=The Independent |date=15 October 1995 |access-date=13 April 2016 }} The Master Builder earned Hamilton the London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 2000 she received the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her performance in As You Like It, Crucible Theatre.

She made her Broadway debut in the 2003 play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, co-starring alongside the comedian Eddie Izzard.{{Cite web |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-100484284.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529072401/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-100484284.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 May 2016|title=Putting it together: Matt Wolf charts the road traveled to get Austen actors to the table|first=Charles|last=Isherwood|work=Daily Variety|date=4 April 2003 |access-date=13 April 2016}} She had starred with Clive Owen, and later Izzard, in a successful London production of the play the previous year, in which she and Izzard portray the parents of a girl with severe brain damage who attempt to save their marriage through jokes and black comedy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-74255512.html|title=Izzard and Hamilton: A British dynamic duo enchant Broadway|first=Michael|last=Kuchwara|agency=Associated Press|date=30 May 2003|access-date=13 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529073117/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-74255512.html|archive-date=29 May 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-69319164.html|title=Comedian Izzard to debut on Broadway|agency=Associated Press|date=5 November 2002|access-date=13 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529073114/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-69319164.html|archive-date=29 May 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} For her performance in the Broadway adaptation, Hamilton received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.{{Cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-119224271.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529072429/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-119224271.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 May 2016|title=Putting it together: Matt Wolf charts the road traveled to get Austen actors to the table|first=Matt|last=Wolf|work=Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal|date=1 January 2003|access-date=13 April 2016}}

The following year she appeared in Suddenly, Last Summer (2004), an adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, performed at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield.{{Cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-118686963.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529072418/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-118686963.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 May 2016|title=Suddenly Last Summer|first=Matt|last=Wolf|work=Daily Variety|date=3 June 2004|access-date=13 April 2016}} For her performance, she was honoured as Best Actress by winning the Critics' Circle Theatre Award and Evening Standard Theatre Award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-128007095.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529072444/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-128007095.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 May 2016|title=Mel Brooks's the Producers scoops top theatre award|work=Liverpool Daily Post|date=2 February 2005|access-date=13 April 2016}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/judi-dench-honoured-for-doing-job-i-adore-686540.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220817/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/judi-dench-honoured-for-doing-job-i-adore-686540.html |archive-date=17 August 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Judi Dench honoured for 'doing job I adore'|first=Anita|last=Singh|work=The Independent|date=13 December 2004|access-date=1 May 2016}} Her success led some of the media to brand her as "the next Judi Dench".{{Cite web| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4726873/Victorias-values.html|title=Victoria's values|first=Charles|last=Spencer|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=4 December 2001|access-date=1 May 2016}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/backstage-pass/article/item103455/Victoria-Hamilton|title=Victoria Hamilton|first=Matthew|last=Amer|work=Official London Theatre|date=3 December 2008|access-date=1 May 2016}}

Hamilton took a three-year break from the stage before returning as Viola in the Shakespearean comedy Twelfth Night (2008), staged at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End of London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-118686963.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529072418/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-118686963.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 May 2016|title=Twelfth Night|first=Christian M.|last=Billing|work=Shakespeare Bulletin|date=22 September 2009|access-date=13 April 2016}}

=Television and film=

Hamilton is known for working in the costume drama genre.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/4Rjw35ftmKpYgdNPZpVw1pk/peggy-scott|title=What Remains|publisher=BBC|access-date=7 May 2016}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/to-the-ends-of-the-earth/2008/01/25/1201157641824.html|title=To The Ends Of The Earth|first=Judy|last=Adamson|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=27 January 2008|access-date=7 May 2016}} In 2001, she joked that she had been in corsets for the preceding seven years.{{Cite news|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-47555354.html|title=One Victoria plays another in movie|first=Matt|last=Wolf|agency=Associated Press|date=16 October 2001|access-date=7 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911094259/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-47555354.html|archive-date=11 September 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

During the 1990s, she had supporting roles in three adaptations of Jane Austen's novels. These include the 1995 serial Pride and Prejudice as Mrs Forster,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/prideandprejudice/characters/pp_also_in_the_cast_feature.shtml|title=Pride and Prejudice|publisher=BBC|access-date=10 April 2016}} the 1995 film Persuasion as Henrietta Musgrove,{{Cite news|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-860863.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301073100/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-860863.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 March 2016|title=Persuasion: Austen found|first=Hal|last=Hinson|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=20 October 1995|access-date=10 April 2016}} and the 1999 film Mansfield Park as Maria Bertram.{{Cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-24051437.html|title=Taking a clue from Austen|first=Bob|last=Ivry|work=The Record|date=17 November 1999|access-date=10 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505021117/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-24051437.html|archive-date=5 May 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}

She won the role of Queen Victoria in the 2001 BBC TV production Victoria & Albert, despite facing strong competition and being relatively unknown at the time. She auditioned with the director John Erman in a London hotel suite, and after reading lines from several more scenes at his prompting, was offered the part immediately.{{Cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-77299600.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504221320/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-77299600.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 May 2016|title=Victoria picked for plum role as queen|first=Olivia|last=Convey|work=The News Letter|date=18 August 2001|access-date=12 April 2016}} Noting that the monarch is typically depicted as stern and stout, Hamilton desired to show a younger version who "loved parties and balls and theatre and opera and new dresses" after a childhood spent in a "forbidding environment".{{Cite web|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4617821.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505115127/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4617821.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 May 2016|title=Victoria Hamilton, queen share more than a name|first=Matt|last=Wolf|work=Chicago Sun-Times|date=23 October 2001|access-date=10 April 2016}}

In 2005, she appeared in the three-part miniseries To the Ends of the Earth alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Jared Harris. The production, an adaptation of the novels of the same name by William Golding, featured various self-absorbed characters who are forced to remain in close quarters while sailing on a ship to Australia during the Napoleonic Wars.{{sfn|Parrill|2009|p=298}} Hamilton described the production as having "some of the most beautiful scripts I've seen", and called her character Miss Granham "one of the strongest people on the boat".{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/totheends/interviews.html|title=To the Ends of the Earth: Interviews with the Cast |publisher=PBS|access-date=10 April 2016}}

From 2008 to 2011, she appeared in the BBC1 series Lark Rise to Candleford as Ruby Pratt, one of two spinster sisters who run a high fashion shop in a small 19th-century town.{{Cite press release|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/12_december/17/lark_hamilton_ziegler.shtml|title=Lark Rise To Candleford|publisher=BBC|date=17 December 2007|access-date=20 April 2016}} The Guardian deemed Ruby's rivalry with her sister Pearl (played by Matilda Ziegler) as a highlight of the series, believing both actresses portrayed their characters with "infectious relish".{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/feb/11/lark-rise-to-candleford|title=Lark Rise to Candleford: The end is nigh|work=The Guardian|first=Viv|last=Groskop|date=11 February 2011|access-date=12 April 2016}} In 2013, Hamilton played Peggy in the BBC drama series What Remains.{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/01/what-remains-review-episode-2-david-threlfall_n_3853661.html|title='What Remains' Episode 2 Review – David Threlfall Stars In Intriguing BBC Murder Mystery|work=The Huffington Post|first=Caroline|last=Frost|date=9 January 2013|access-date=20 April 2016}}

In 2015, she appeared in the BBC1 drama, Doctor Foster, playing Anna Baker, a woman who lived across the road from the central characters, Gemma and Simon Foster. She reprised her role in the second series of the drama in 2017. By the final episode, her character had moved away.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

In 2016 and 2017, she appeared in the first two seasons of the Netflix series The Crown as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The drama series, which is scheduled to span six seasons, depicts the relationship between Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh from 1947 to the present.{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/04/11/the-crown-everything-you-need-to-know-about-netflixs-100-million|title=The Crown: Everything you need to know about Netflix's £100 million series about the Queen's reign|work=The Daily Telegraph|first1=Alice|last1=Vincent|first2=Anita|last2=Singh|date=11 April 2016|access-date=20 April 2016}}

Since 2020, she has starred in the Sky drama Cobra as Anna Marshall, the Downing Street Chief of Staff.{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/cobra-s2-release-date/|title=COBRA season 2 Cyberwar release date: Cast, plot and latest news for the Sky drama|website=Radio Times}}

Personal life

Hamilton met actor Mark Bazeley while co-starring in a 2005 production of Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer. They became engaged on a beach in Greece, and married in 2008. They have two sons.{{cite web |last1=Bull |first1=Megan |date=February 9, 2025|title=Unforgotten star Victoria Hamilton's famous husband revealed |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/812953/victoria-hamilton-famous-husband-revealed/ |website=hellomagazine.com |publisher=Hello! |access-date=6 April 2025}}

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable"
Year ! Film ! Role ! Notes ! Ref
1995 \| Persuasion \| Henrietta Musgrove \| \|
1996 \| The Merchant of Venice \| Nerissa \| TV film \| {{Cite web\|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb4168377 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808220825/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb4168377 \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=8 August 2016 \|title=Victoria Hamilton \|publisher=British Film Institute \|access-date=20 April 2016 }}
1999 \| Mansfield Park \| Maria Bertram \| \|
rowspan="3"\|2002 \| A Day in the Death of Joe Egg \| Sheila \| TV film \|
Before You Go \| Catherine \| \|
Goodbye, Mr. Chips \| Kathie \| TV film \|
2003 \| In Search of the Brontës \| Charlotte Brontë \| TV film \|
2005 \| A Very Social Secretary \| Kimberly Quinn \| TV film \|
rowspan="2"\|2006 \| Scoop \| Jan \| \|
Wide Sargasso Sea \| Aunt Cora \| TV film \|
2008 \| French Film \| Cheryl \| \|
2010 \| Toast \| Mum \| TV film \|
rowspan="2"\|2016 \| The Circuit \| Helene \| TV film \| {{Cite news\| url=http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-announces-comedy-pilot-the-circuit \|title=Channel 4 announces new comedy pilot The Circuit \|publisher=Channel 4 \|access-date=23 August 2016}}
Our Ex-Wife \| Hillary \| TV film \|
2019 \| The Vanishing Princess \| Narrator \| Short film \|
2020 \| Albion \| Audrey Walters \| TV film \|
2021 \| The Trick \| Ruth Jones \| TV film \|

class="wikitable"

Year

! Film

! Role

! Notes

! Ref

1995

| Persuasion

| Henrietta Musgrove

1996

| The Merchant of Venice

| Nerissa

| TV film

| {{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb4168377 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808220825/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb4168377 |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 August 2016 |title=Victoria Hamilton |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=20 April 2016 }}

1999

| Mansfield Park

| Maria Bertram

rowspan="3"|2002

| A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

| Sheila

| TV film

Before You Go

| Catherine

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

| Kathie

| TV film

2003

| In Search of the Brontës

| Charlotte Brontë

| TV film

2005

| A Very Social Secretary

| Kimberly Quinn

| TV film

rowspan="2"|2006

| Scoop

| Jan

Wide Sargasso Sea

| Aunt Cora

| TV film

2008

| French Film

| Cheryl

2010

| Toast

| Mum

| TV film

rowspan="2"|2016

| The Circuit

| Helene

| TV film

| {{Cite news| url=http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-announces-comedy-pilot-the-circuit |title=Channel 4 announces new comedy pilot The Circuit |publisher=Channel 4 |access-date=23 August 2016}}

Our Ex-Wife

| Hillary

| TV film

2019

| The Vanishing Princess

| Narrator

| Short film

2020

| Albion

| Audrey Walters

| TV film

2021

| The Trick

| Ruth Jones

| TV film

=Television=

class="wikitable"
Year ! Film ! Role ! Notes
rowspan="2"\|1995 \| Screen Two \| Henrietta Musgrove \| Episode: "Persuasion" \|
Pride and Prejudice \| Mrs. Forster \| Miniseries; 3 episodes \|
1995–1996 \| Cone Zone \| Zandra \| Regular role; 10 episodes \|
1998 \| Performance \| Cordelia \| Episode: "King Lear" \|
2000 \| Midsomer Murders \| Hilary Inkpen \| Episode: "Garden of Death" \|
rowspan="2"\|2001 \| Victoria & Albert \| Queen Victoria \| Miniseries; 2 episodes \|
The Savages \| Jessica Savage \| Regular role; 6 episodes \|
2001–2002 \| Babyfather \| Lucy Fry \| Recurring role; 5 episodes \|
rowspan="3"\|2005 \| Twisted Tales \| Jessie Vasquez \| Episode: "The Magister" \|
To the Ends of the Earth \| Miss Granham \| Miniseries; 3 episodes \|
Jericho \| Miss Greenaway \| Episode: "To Murder and Create" \|
2006 \| The Shell Seekers \| Nancy \| Miniseries; 2 episodes \|
rowspan="2"\|2007 \| Trial & Retribution \| Suzy MacDonald \| Episode: "Curriculum Vitae" \|
The Time of Your Life \| Esther \| Regular role; 6 episodes \|
2008–2011 \| Lark Rise to Candleford \| Ruby Pratt \| Regular role; 31 episodes \|
2013 \| What Remains \| Peggy Scott \| Miniseries; 4 episodes \|
2014 \| The Game \| Sarah Montag \| Regular role; 6 episodes \|
2015 \| Call the Midwife \| Iris Willens \| Episode: "Christmas Special 2015" \|
2015–2017 \| Doctor Foster \| Anna Baker \| Regular role; 8 episodes \| {{Cite news\| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5JRdFYP2Hb4pZt7cJNNv54k/characters \|title=Doctor Foster Characters \|publisher=BBC \|access-date=8 May 2016}}
2016–2017 \| The Crown \| Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother \| Main role (Seasons 1–2) 17 episodes \|
rowspan="2"\|2019 \| Urban Myths \| Joan Collins / Alexis \| Episode: "The Trial of Joan Collins"
Deep State \| Senator Meaghan Sullivan \| Regular role; 8 episodes \|
2020 \| Life \| Belle Stone \| Regular role; 6 episodes \| {{cite web\|url=https://www.sky.com/watch/cobra\|access-date=17 January 2020\|title=Cobra the new TV Series \| Sky.com}}
2020–present \| COBRA \| Anna Marshall \| Regular role; 12 episodes \|
2024 \|McDonald & Dodds \| Dora Lang \| Guest Role

class="wikitable"

Year

! Film

! Role

! Notes

rowspan="2"|1995

| Screen Two

| Henrietta Musgrove

| Episode: "Persuasion"

Pride and Prejudice

| Mrs. Forster

| Miniseries; 3 episodes

1995–1996

| Cone Zone

| Zandra

| Regular role; 10 episodes

1998

| Performance

| Cordelia

| Episode: "King Lear"

2000

| Midsomer Murders

| Hilary Inkpen

| Episode: "Garden of Death"

rowspan="2"|2001

| Victoria & Albert

| Queen Victoria

| Miniseries; 2 episodes

The Savages

| Jessica Savage

| Regular role; 6 episodes

2001–2002

| Babyfather

| Lucy Fry

| Recurring role; 5 episodes

rowspan="3"|2005

| Twisted Tales

| Jessie Vasquez

| Episode: "The Magister"

To the Ends of the Earth

| Miss Granham

| Miniseries; 3 episodes

Jericho

| Miss Greenaway

| Episode: "To Murder and Create"

2006

| The Shell Seekers

| Nancy

| Miniseries; 2 episodes

rowspan="2"|2007

| Trial & Retribution

| Suzy MacDonald

| Episode: "Curriculum Vitae"

The Time of Your Life

| Esther

| Regular role; 6 episodes

2008–2011

| Lark Rise to Candleford

| Ruby Pratt

| Regular role; 31 episodes

2013

| What Remains

| Peggy Scott

| Miniseries; 4 episodes

2014

| The Game

| Sarah Montag

| Regular role; 6 episodes

2015

| Call the Midwife

| Iris Willens

| Episode: "Christmas Special 2015"

2015–2017

| Doctor Foster

| Anna Baker

| Regular role; 8 episodes

| {{Cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5JRdFYP2Hb4pZt7cJNNv54k/characters |title=Doctor Foster Characters |publisher=BBC |access-date=8 May 2016}}

2016–2017

| The Crown

| Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

| Main role (Seasons 1–2)
17 episodes

rowspan="2"|2019

| Urban Myths

| Joan Collins / Alexis

| Episode: "The Trial of Joan Collins"

Deep State

| Senator Meaghan Sullivan

| Regular role; 8 episodes

2020

| Life

| Belle Stone

| Regular role; 6 episodes

| {{cite web|url=https://www.sky.com/watch/cobra|access-date=17 January 2020|title=Cobra the new TV Series | Sky.com}}

2020–present

| COBRA

| Anna Marshall

| Regular role; 12 episodes

2024

|McDonald & Dodds

| Dora Lang

| Guest Role

Selected theatre credits

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! Venue
2003 \| Sweet Panic \| Clare \| Duke of York's Theatre, London
2004 \| Suddenly Last Summer \| Catharine Holly \| UK Tour
2005 \| Once in a Lifetime \| May Daniels \| Olivier Theatre, London
2008 \| Twelfth Night \| Viola \| Wyndham's Theatre, London
2012 \| Love, Love, Love \| Sandra \| Royal Court Theatre, London
2017 \| Albion \| Audrey Walters \| Almeida Theatre, London
2020 \| Albion \| Audrey Walters \| Almeida Theatre, London

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! Venue

2003

| Sweet Panic

| Clare

| Duke of York's Theatre, London

2004

| Suddenly Last Summer

| Catharine Holly

| UK Tour

2005

| Once in a Lifetime

| May Daniels

| Olivier Theatre, London

2008

| Twelfth Night

| Viola

| Wyndham's Theatre, London

2012

| Love, Love, Love

| Sandra

| Royal Court Theatre, London

2017

| Albion

| Audrey Walters

| Almeida Theatre, London

2020

| Albion

| Audrey Walters

| Almeida Theatre, London

Awards and nominations

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Award

!Category

!Work

!Result

align="center" |2016

| rowspan="2" |Screen Actors Guild Award

| rowspan="2" |Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

| rowspan="2" |The Crown

|{{nominated}}

align="center" |2017

|{{nominated}}

= Theatre =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Award

!Category

!Work

!Result

!class=unsortable|Ref.

align="center" |2000

|Critics’ Circle Theatre Award

|Best Actress

|As You Like It

|{{won}}

|{{Cite web|date=2016-11-28|title=2000 Results {{!}} Critics' Circle Theatre Awards|url=https://criticscircletheatreawards.com/results/results-2000/|access-date=2021-04-01|language=en-GB}}

align="center" |2002

|Laurence Olivier Award

|Best Actress

| rowspan="5" |A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

|{{nom}}

|{{Cite web|title=Olivier Winners 2002|url=https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-2002/|access-date=2021-04-01|website=Olivier Awards|language=en-GB}}

rowspan="4" align="center" |2003

|Tony Award

|Best Actress in a Play

|{{nom}}

|{{Cite web|title=The Tony Award Nominations|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/2003/category/any/show/any/|access-date=2021-07-08|website=www.tonyawards.com|language=en-US}}

Drama League Award

|Distinguished Performance

|{{nom}}

|{{Cite web|title=The Drama League Awards: 2003|url=https://www.abouttheartists.com/award_groups/23-drama-league-awards/year/2003|access-date=2021-07-08|website=www.abouttheartists.com}}

Outer Critics Circle Award

|Outstanding Actress in a Play

|{{nom}}

|{{Cite web|last=Gans|first=Andrew|date=5 May 2003|title=Outer Critics Circle Award Winners Announced; Hairspray Leads the Pack|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/outer-critics-circle-award-winners-announced-hairspray-leads-the-pack-com-112996|access-date=2021-07-08|website=Playbill|language=en}}

colspan="2" |Theatre World Award

|{{won|Honoree}}

|{{Cite web|title=Theatre World Awards - Theatre World Awards|url=https://www.theatreworldawards.org/past-recipients.html|access-date=2021-07-08|website=www.theatreworldawards.org}}

rowspan="2" align="center" |2004

|Evening Standard Theatre Award

|Best Actress

| rowspan="3" |Suddenly Last Summer

|{{won}}

|{{Cite web|date=2016-06-08|title=Evening Standard Theatre Award Winners 2004|url=https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/evening-standard-theatre-award-winners-2004|access-date=2021-04-01|website=London Theatre Guide|language=en}}

Critics’ Circle Theatre Award

|Best Actress

|{{won}}

|{{Cite web|date=2016-11-28|title=2004 Results {{!}} Critics' Circle Theatre Awards|url=https://criticscircletheatreawards.com/results/results-2004/|access-date=2021-04-01|language=en-GB}}

align="center" |2005

|Laurence Olivier Award

|Best Actress

|{{nom}}

|{{Cite web|title=Olivier Winners 2005|url=https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-2005/|access-date=2021-04-21|website=Olivier Awards|language=en-GB}}

rowspan="2" align="center" |2017

|Evening Standard Theatre Award

|Best Actress

| rowspan="2" |Albion

|{{nom}}

|{{Cite web|last=Thompson|first=Jessie|date=2017-12-04|title=These are the winners of the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/evening-standard-theatre-awards-2017-the-ferryman-scoops-three-gongs-as-andrew-garfield-takes-home-best-actor-a3708021.html|access-date=2021-04-21|website=www.standard.co.uk|language=en}}

Critics’ Circle Theatre Award

|Best Actress

|{{won}}

|{{Cite web|date=2018-01-31|title=2017 Results {{!}} Critics' Circle Theatre Awards|url=https://criticscircletheatreawards.com/results/2017-results/|access-date=2020-12-06|language=en-GB}}

References

Works cited

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