Ruby Bentall was born on 3 April 1988 and is an English actress, known for playing Minnie in Lark Rise to Candleford, Mary Bennet in Lost in Austen, Verity Poldark in the 2015 BBC adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark novels, and Angelica in The Serpent Queen.
12 Facts About Ruby Bentall
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Ruby Bentall is the daughter of actors Janine Duvitski and Paul Bentall.
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Ruby Bentall attended Grey Court School and went to Richmond upon Thames College between 2004 and 2006, graduating with a BTEC National Diploma in Performance.
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Ruby Bentall has three siblings, and two elder half-siblings from her father's first marriage.
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Ruby Bentall's first professional acting job was an episode of Holby City, which she filmed in 2006 while still at Richmond College.
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Ruby Bentall played Mary Bennet in the 2008 mini-series Lost in Austen, a performance described as "by far the most interesting interpretation of the sanctimonious middle Bennet daughter of Pride and Prejudice yet".
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Ruby Bentall made her stage debut at the National Theatre in 2008, appearing in productions of DNA and The Miracle.
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Ruby Bentall has lent her voice to the BBC Radio 4 drama Sister Agnes Investigates.
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Ruby Bentall played Alice in Alice, an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, written by Laura Wade, at the Sheffield Crucible in June 2010.
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Ruby Bentall played Anya in Remembrance Day at the Royal Court Theatre in March - April 2011 and the role of Victoria in the Mike Leigh directed play Grief at the Royal National Theatre in London.
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On 30 March 2014, it was announced that Ruby Bentall would be playing Ross Poldark's cousin Verity in the new BBC One version of Poldark, broadcast in 2015.
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Ruby Bentall made a guest appearance in Holby City in July 2018.