Polly Alexandra Walker was born on 19 May 1966 and is an English actress.
16 Facts About Polly Walker
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Polly Walker is known for her roles in BBC One dramas Prisoners' Wives, Line of Duty and Netflix's Bridgerton.
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Polly Walker attended PadgateChurch of England Primary School in Warrington, and Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts in East Grinstead until joining Twickenham's Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance at age 16.
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Polly Walker had to abandon dancing after a leg injury at the age of 18, deciding to focus on acting.
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Polly Walker attended Drama Centre London, before working at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Polly Walker first gained international attention in 1992 as a single-minded English member of an Irish terrorist group in Phillip Noyce's Patriot Games.
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Polly Walker appeared in Douglas McGrath's 1996 adaption of Jane Austen's Emma, as Jane Fairfax, the titular character's rival.
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Polly Walker next played the sinister Catherine Braithwaite in "Deus Ex Machina", a two-episode story of the BBC television "cold case" crime series Waking the Dead.
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In May 2008, Polly Walker was cast as Sister Clarice Willow, headmistress of a private religious school, in Syfy's Battlestar Galactica prequel series Caprica.
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Polly Walker appeared in Louis Leterrier's 2010 action fantasy remake, Clash of the Titans as Cassiopeia.
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Polly Walker starred in BBC's crime drama Prisoners' Wives as crime wife Francesca Miller from 2012 to 2013.
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Polly Walker went on to appear in Andrew Staunton's 2012 science fiction action-adventure film John Carter as Sarkoja, a merciless Thark.
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In 2018, Polly Walker starred as Bel, the leading character in Age Before Beauty.
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Since December 2020, Polly Walker has starred in the Netflix series Bridgerton as Portia, Lady Featherington.
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Polly Walker earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in 2021 with the series cast for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
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On 23 October 2008, Polly Walker married the former actor Laurence Penry-Jones with whom she lived in the United States for several years.