1. Louise Brealey, credited as Loo Brealey, is an English actress, writer and journalist.
16 Facts About Louise Brealey
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Louise Brealey played Molly Hooper in Sherlock, Cass in Back, Scottish professor Jude McDermid in Clique and Gillian Chamberlain in A Discovery of Witches.
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Louise Brealey trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City and with clown teacher Philippe Gaulier in London.
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Louise Brealey has written on cinema, art and music since her teens, contributing reviews and features for magazines including Premiere UK, Empire, SKY, The Face, Neon and Total Film.
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Louise Brealey is the editor of Anarchy and Alchemy: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky.
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Until April 2009, Louise Brealey was the deputy editor of Wonderland magazine.
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Louise Brealey's monologue Go Back To Where You Came From was performed as part of Paines Plough Theatre's Come To Where I'm From project in 2018.
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Louise Brealey made her TV debut as Nurse Roxanne Bird in two series of BBC drama Casualty before playing Judy Smallweed in Bleak House.
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Louise Brealey plays pathologist Molly Hooper in all four series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's television drama, Sherlock.
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Louise Brealey played a leading role in the ITV drama The Widow, first broadcast in March 2019.
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In 2023, Louise Brealey starred in the BBC sitcom Such Brave Girls as a dysfunctional single mother, and co-starred alongside Annabel Scholey in the romantic musical film Chuck Chuck Baby.
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Louise Brealey talked about the roles in the Evening Standard and wrote a piece for The Times about the experience of going naked on stage, which went viral.
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Louise Brealey is the narrator of Caitlin Moran's How to Build a Girl and its sequel How to Be Famous, Alex Michaelides' The Silent Patient, Kate Mosse's Number One Bestseller Labyrinth and Hallie Rubenhold's The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper.
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Louise Brealey voiced Josie in the audiobook of Lisa Jewel's novel, None of This is True.
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Louise Brealey was Megan in the audiobook edition of The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins, which won the 2016 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year.
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Louise Brealey voiced the part of Laura Willowes in the 2021 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Lolly Willowes.