Sophie Rundle was born on 21 April 1988 and is an English actress.
30 Facts About Sophie Rundle
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Sophie Rundle started her career in the British horror comedy film Small Town Folk in 2007 opposite Warwick Davis.
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Also in 2012, Sophie Rundle appeared in Great Expectations directed by Mike Newell.
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Sophie Rundle played Sefa in the two-part episode Arthur's Bane of the final season of the BBC TV series Merlin.
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Sophie Rundle played a lead role in the ITV mystery drama series The Bletchley Circle, about four women who investigate a series of murders, which ended on 27 January 2014.
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Sophie Rundle appears as Ada Shelby in the BBC Two period crime drama series Peaky Blinders, based on the memoirs of the Shelby family, whose many brothers, sisters, and relatives make up the fiercest gang of all in interwar Birmingham.
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On mastering the Brummie accent during production, Sophie Rundle said that she and the rest of the cast had struggled with it at first because it is not heard much on television, but managed to master the accent after a set visit in Birmingham.
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Sophie Rundle played the lead role of Fiona Griffiths, a young detective constable in the Sky Living two-part crime series Talking to the Dead, based on the eponymous novel by Harry Bingham.
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On playing Fiona Griffiths, Sophie Rundle did some research on Cotard's Syndrome to portray Griffiths accurately.
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Sophie Rundle has a history of mental health issues too, which gives her an affinity with the dead.
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Sophie Rundle guest-starred as Pamela Saint, a young mother who suffers mental health problems after delivering her child, in the seventh episode of the third series of the BBC medical period drama series Call the Midwife, which aired on 2 March 2014.
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Sophie Rundle starred in the six-part BBC One police procedural series Happy Valley as Kirsten McAskill, a rookie policewoman who stops Lewis for speeding and is then run over by his accomplice in a recent kidnapping, Tommy, a convicted drug offender, thus killing her.
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On 4 October 2014, Sophie Rundle appeared in the live cooking programme Saturday Kitchen presented by James Martin as an interviewed guest.
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In June 2015, Sophie Rundle starred as Jenny in the Channel 4 sitcom Not Safe for Work alongside Zawe Ashton, Tom Weston-Jones, Samuel Barnett, Sacha Dhawan and Anastasia Hille.
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Sophie Rundle portrayed Honoria Barbary in BBC's 20-part Dickensian, a reworking of an ensemble of characters created by Charles Dickens, which aired on BBC One on 26 December 2015.
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In 2016, Sophie Rundle starred in the ITV's six-part series titled Brief Encounters, which is loosely based on Gold Group International CEO, Jacqueline Gold's 1995 memoir, Good Vibrations.
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In 2017, Sophie Rundle starred in Sky 1's drama Jamestown as Alice Kett, one of the '"maids to make wives" who sailed 3,700 miles across the Atlantic to marry a stranger in the New World'.
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In 2018, Sophie Rundle appeared in the six-part thriller, Bodyguard created by Jed Mercurio, with Keeley Hawes and Gina McKee, broadcast on BBC One.
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On portraying the character, Sophie Rundle shared that she has to engage her feelings and emotions in order to fit of those of Ann Walker:.
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Sophie Rundle grapples with her mental health and it can be exhausting to play; you can be crying all day and it's hard to do that and separate yourself from the character.
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In 2019, Sophie Rundle portrayed Princess Diana in an episode of the Sky Arts' Urban Myths series, with David Avery as Freddie Mercury and Mathew Baynton as Kenny Everett.
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In 2020, Sophie Rundle starred alongside Martin Compston in BBC One programme, The Nest, a five-part psychological drama about a husband and wife who meet an 18-year-old woman who agrees to be their surrogate after years of their trying for a baby.
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Sophie Rundle appeared in Netflix's The Midnight Sky, playing Jean Sullivan.
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Sophie Rundle starred in the film Rose as the titular character, alongside her husband Matt Stokoe who wrote the film.
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In 2023, Sophie Rundle starred in the Alibi political thriller The Diplomat as Laura Simmonds, a British consul who is determined to protect British nationals who are involved in a series of conflicts in Barcelona.
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Sophie Rundle explained the long-running mystery storyline integrating with minor stand-alone storylines that allows the series' cast to explore different characters and different scenarios that the main character [Laura Simmonds] would be involved in.
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Sophie Rundle commented that she can easily portray Laura Simmonds because she can relate the character to several people whom she knew before:.
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In February 2023, Sophie Rundle starred in the ITV six-part mystery thriller series titled After the Flood as PC Joanna Marshall, a police officer investigating the death of a man after a natural disaster struck.
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In February 2013, Sophie Rundle played Bunty Mainwaring in Stephen Unwin's production of Noel Coward's The Vortex at the Rose Theatre, Kingston.
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Sophie Rundle is engaged to actor Matt Stokoe, whom she met on the set of Jamestown.