Charity Wakefield was born in Tunbridge Wells Her first taste of acting was in an amateur dramatics school production of Sleeping Beauty in 1987.
10 Facts About Charity Wakefield
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Besides acting, Charity Wakefield plays the violin and has a strong soprano singing voice.
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Charity Wakefield made her screen debut in 2004, in Imperfect.
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Charity Wakefield starred in a BBC1 production of Rapunzel, in which Rapunzel is a young tennis star, and appeared in Casualty 1907.
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Charity Wakefield's theatre credits include Yesterday Was a Weird Day, a production about the 2005 London bombings, Constance in The Three Musketeers at the Bristol Old Vic, and Elaine in The Graduate, at the New Vic; she met her future husband, David Newman, when they acted together in The Graduate.
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Charity Wakefield played a lead role as Marianne Dashwood in the BBC production of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
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Charity Wakefield appeared in the Channel 4 drama Any Human Heart and played the lead in the British film noir Scar Tissue.
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Charity Wakefield appeared as Mary Boleyn in the 2015 BBC2 television series Wolf Hall.
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Charity Wakefield appeared in the NBC drama The Player with Philip Winchester and Wesley Snipes.
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Charity Wakefield appeared in the main cast of both series of the Sky One comedy drama Bounty Hunters, playing Leah Hoover, sister of the character of series co-creator and co-lead Jack Whitehall.