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Charity Wakefield Born Charity Wakefield
September 1980 (age 31)
Sussex, EnglandOccupation Actress Years active 2004-present Charity Wakefield (born September 1980)[1] is an English actress.
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Background
Wakefield was born in Sussex, England in September 1980. At a couple of months old she moved with her mother, Caroline, to L'Ampolla in Catalonia, Spain. They returned to England when Wakefield was four.[1] She has a half-sister, Olivia. Her maternal grandfather was actor James Hayter.[1]
Wakefield went to Bexhill College,[1] and studied acting at the Oxford School of Drama from 2000 to 2003.[2] As well as acting, she plays the violin and has a strong soprano singing voice.[3]
Career
Wakefield made her screen debut in 2004, in (Past Present Future) Imperfect. She starred in a BBC1 production of Rapunzel, in which Rapunzel is a young tennis star,[4] and also appeared in Casualty 1907.[5]
Her theatre credits include Yesterday Was a Weird Day, a production about the 2005 London bombings, Constance in The Three Musketeers at the Bristol Old Vic, and Elaine in The Graduate, at the New Vic. Wakefield's performance as Susan in Baby with the Bathwater at the Old Red Lion Theatre was called "fabulous."[6]
In 2008 she toured in a revival of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle at the Chichester Festival Theatre, as well as working on the BBC comedy pilot Freddi.[7] She has recently appeared in the Channel 4 drama Any Human Heart.
Selected credits
Year Title Role Notes 2004 (Past Present Future) Imperfect Beanie Hex Lucy Episode Life Goes On 2006 Jane Eyre Miss Temple Scenes deleted 2007 Exitz Billy Doctors Carole Hinton Episode Personal Services 2008 Sense and Sensibility Marianne Dashwood Fairy Tales Billy Jean Brooke/Rapunzel Episode Rapunzel The Beachcombers Short film Casualty 1907 Ethel Bennett Burlesque Fairy Tales Grace Act of God Laura The Wonderful World of Freddi Faroubb Yasmin Post-It Love Girl Short film by Si & Ad 2009 Casualty 1909 Ethel Bennett Legally Mad Brady Hamm Pilot not picked up Day of the Flowers Ailie References
- ^ a b c d Levin, Angela (17 May 2009). "High hopes for Charity". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1181350/High-hopes-Charity.html. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
- ^ (5 September 2005) Charity Wakefield, The Stage
- ^ Wakefield, Charity - Who's who on UK TV Hello! magazine.
- ^ (7 July 2007) Lee Ingleby, Charity Wakefield and Shaun Williamson let down their hair in BBC One's Rapunzel, BBC
- ^ (8 August 2007) More historical medical crises ... Casualty 1907 comes to BBC One, BBC
- ^ Whitelaw, Emma Laugh - Then thank your lucky stars you weren't born a Dingleberry, Indie London
- ^ Freddi: new BBC Four comedy commission BBC Press Office. 2008-09-19
External links
Categories:- 1980 births
- Living people
- English television actors
- English stage actors
- English film actors
- People from Sussex
- Alumni of the Oxford School of Drama
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