Lara Pulver has played Erin Watts in the BBC spy drama Spooks and Irene Adler on BBC's TV adaptation Sherlock.
14 Facts About Lara Pulver
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Lara Pulver won the 2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical in the West End's revival of Gypsy.
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Lara Pulver's father is from a Jewish family; her mother converted to Judaism when they married.
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Lara Pulver has a sister, Erika, who is four years older and works as a teacher.
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Lara Pulver attended the National Youth Music Theatre between 1994 and 1998, as well as The Liz Burville Dance Centre, Bexley.
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Lara Pulver was nominated for the 2008 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the role of Lucille Frank in the first West End production of the musical Parade at the Donmar Warehouse.
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Lara Pulver joined the cast of the BBC's Robin Hood in 2009 as Isabella, the sister of Guy of Gisbourne.
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In 2010, Lara Pulver joined the cast of the third series of HBO's True Blood as Sookie Stackhouse's fairy godmother, Claudine Crane.
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Lara Pulver played Erin Watts, the new chief of Section D, in the tenth and final series of BBC spy drama Spooks, a role she reprised in the 2015 feature film Spooks: The Greater Good.
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Lara Pulver played Irene Adler in "A Scandal in Belgravia", the first episode of the second series of Sherlock.
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Lara Pulver's appearance caused an "enormous" response, with the Evening Standard calling the scene where she greets Sherlock Holmes nude "infamous".
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Lara Pulver won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for the same role in the Savoy Theatre production of Gypsy.
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In 2003, Lara Pulver met American actor Josh Dallas while he was in the UK studying at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
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Lara Pulver began dating fellow Spooks actor Raza Jaffrey in 2012 and the two married on 27 December 2014.