1. Philippa Elaine Fanti Bennett-Warner was born on 23 July 1988 and is a British actress.
11 Facts About Pippa Bennett-Warner
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Pippa Bennett-Warner began her career as a child actress, playing young Nala in the original West End production of The Lion King.
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Pippa Bennett-Warner went on to earn WhatsOnStage and Ian Charleson Award nominations for her roles in the musical Caroline, or Change and Michael Grandage's King Lear respectively.
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On television, Pippa Bennett-Warner starred in the Sky Atlantic crime drama Gangs of London and the BBC thrillers Roadkill and Chloe.
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Pippa Bennett-Warner was brought up in Buckinghamshire, and was educated at St Edward's School in Oxford, and Lucie Clayton Charm Academy.
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Pippa Bennett-Warner is of Jamaican and Kittitian descent, and has a sister, Georgina, who is three years older.
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Pippa Bennett-Warner started her acting career in Julie Taymor's 1999 London production of The Lion King, as one of the original young Nalas.
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Pippa Bennett-Warner went on to star in the lead role in Athol Fugard's UK premiere of Victory for the Peter Hall Company and then went to RADA in September 2007.
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Pippa Bennett-Warner graduated from RADA in 2010, but left early to take on the role of Sophie in Lynn Nottage's Ruined at the Almeida Theatre.
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Pippa Bennett-Warner went on to secure a nomination for Best Actress at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2012, alongside Cate Blanchett and Dame Eileen Atkins and was named as one of the 1,000 Most Influential Londoners in 2012 in the category "Generation Next" by The Evening Standard.
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Pippa Bennett-Warner is good friends with Jonathan Bailey who she appeared with in Doctor Who's "Time Heist" episode in 2014.