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13 Facts About Cressida Bonas

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Cressida Bonas has seven half-siblings: three paternal half-brothers from her father's first marriage; one maternal half-sister from her mother's first marriage; and two maternal half-sisters and a maternal half-brother from her mother's second marriage, including actress Isabella Calthorpe.

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Cressida Bonas studied ballet from the age of nine at the Royal Ballet School.

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Later, Cressida Bonas won a sports scholarship to Prior Park College in Bath, Somerset, then completed her formal education at Stowe School.

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Cressida Bonas went on to study dance at the University of Leeds, graduating with a 2:1, before undertaking postgraduate dance studies at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire in Greenwich.

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Whilst at school, Cressida Bonas played Cockney housekeeper Mrs Swabb in Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus, Miss Julie in the eponymous play, and Laura in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.

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Cressida Bonas made her first screen appearance in 2009 with a small role in the TV series Trinity.

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In May and June 2015 Cressida Bonas appeared as Laura in the one-woman play, An Evening with Lucian Freud, by Laura-Jane Foley, at the Leicester Square Theatre, directed by Ella Marchment.

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In June 2014 Cressida Bonas appeared in the film Tulip Fever as Mrs Steen.

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In December 2016 and January 2017 Bonas played the female lead role of Daisy Buchanan in the musical play Gatsby, at the Leicester Square Theatre, based on F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

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Cressida Bonas was photographed by Mario Testino for Vanity Fair after being included in the magazine's annual "International Best-Dressed List" in 2014.

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In January 2015, after modelling for British brand Burberry, Cressida Bonas was announced to front the 2015 campaign of fashion company Mulberry.

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Cressida Bonas was introduced to Prince Harry by Princess Eugenie in May 2012.

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On 18 August 2019 Cressida Bonas's engagement to real estate agent and property investor Henry David Wentworth-Stanley was born on 1989 and was announced via a post on his Instagram page.