Erin Richards is a Welsh actress, director and writer, best known for playing Molly Hughes in the television series '' Breaking In'' and

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in the television series '' Gotham''.

Life and career

Erin Richards filming on Penarth Pier January 2016 (cropped)

Richards was born in

Penarth Penarth (, ) is a town and Community (Wales), community in the Vale of Glamorgan ( cy, Bro Morgannwg), Wales, exactly south of Cardiff city centre on the west shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay. Penarth is a weal ...

, Wales. She trained at the

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama , image_name = Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.jpg , image_size = , motto = , established = 1949 , type = Public , staff = , vice_chancellor = , students = 779 (2017/18) , undergrad ...

. She presented the Welsh language teen magazine show Mosgito for S4C and appeared in short films before landing significant roles in BBC TV programmes ''Crash'' and ''Being Human''. Retrieved 14 June 2015. In 2012, she was cast in the

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comedy '' Breaking In'' as an executive assistant with an exaggerated English accent. She became a ''Breaking In'' regular in January 2012. She co-starred in the role of Sharon in

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Open Grave ''Open Grave'' is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego, starring Sharlto Copley and Thomas Kretschmann, Joseph Morgan, Erin Richards, Josie Ho, and Max Wrottesley in supporting roles. Josie Ho plays ...

'', alongside

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. From 2014 to 2019, she played

in the FOX Television series '' Gotham''. She directed the fifth season episode " The Trial of Jim Gordon", which premiered on 7 March 2019. According to FOX, she is starring in an unreleased independent film called ''That Good Night'' alongside Max Brown and

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. She also appeared in ''The Quiet Ones'', ''Open Grave'', and in television, '' Being Human'' in the UK. She lives in London, Los Angeles, and New York.

Filmography

Film

Television

Director

References

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Richards, Erin Living people People from Penarth Welsh film actresses Welsh-speaking actors Welsh television actresses Welsh television directors Welsh stage actresses Alumni of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama British women television directors 1986 births 21st-century Welsh actresses