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18 Facts About Sophie Winkleman

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Sophie Winkleman is married to Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince Michael of Kent and second cousin of King Charles III.

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Sophie Lara Winkleman was born on 5 August 1980 in Primrose Hill, London.

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The television presenter Claudia Winkleman is her half-sister from her father's first marriage to Eve Pollard.

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Sophie Winkleman was educated at the City of London School for Girls and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she studied English literature.

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Sophie Winkleman joined the Cambridge Footlights and wrote and performed in the comic revue Far Too Happy, which toured Britain for three months and gained the troupe's first Perrier Award nomination in 20 years.

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Sophie Winkleman joined the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain in 1997.

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Sophie Winkleman is a soprano, reprising her singing in the First Love series for Sky Arts.

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Sophie Winkleman was nominated for Best Newcomer by the BBC for her performance as Clara Gold in Waking the Dead.

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Sophie Winkleman made her debut on American television as the star of the NBC sitcom 100 Questions as main character Charlotte Payne.

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Sophie Winkleman guest starred as Joy's younger sister on one episode of Hot in Cleveland and was a recurring guest on the hit series Two and a Half Men as Zoey, the British girlfriend of Walden Schmidt.

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Sophie Winkleman played the comic role of Debbie Levine in Pathe's romantic comedy Suzie Gold and the older Susan Pevensie in the Disney film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

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Sophie Winkleman is a regular in BBC Radio 4 comedy and drama.

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Sophie Winkleman is among the cast of comedy programmes such as Marcus Brigstocke's Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off, and such afternoon plays as Tea for Two.

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Sophie Winkleman played the role of Sasha in Von Ribbentrop's Watch, a historical drama, Anna Freud in the play Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler, by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, and the Amazon warrior princess Penthesilea alongside Alistair McGowan and Stephen Mangan in the Radio 4 comic fantasy series ElvenQuest, by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto.

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Sophie Winkleman has starred in several Doctor Who plays for Radio 4.

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Sophie Winkleman married Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, in Hampton Court Palace on 12 September 2009.

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In November 2017 Sophie Winkleman was seriously injured in a head-on car crash, suffering a broken back and foot.

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Sophie Winkleman was a back-seat passenger in a car when another vehicle struck her car after swerving to avoid a deer.