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Sophie Rundle (born 21 April 1988) is an English actress, best known for portraying Ada Thorne in the
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, ...
historical crime drama television series ''
Peaky Blinders
The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1910s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to middle-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racke ...
'',
Ann Walker in BBC One and HBO's period drama ''
Gentleman Jack'', Vicky Budd in the
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Bodyguard
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'', code-breaker Lucy in the
ITV drama series ''
The Bletchley Circle
''The Bletchley Circle'' is a television mystery drama series, set in 1952–53, about four women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park. Dissatisfied with the officials' failure to investigate complex crimes, the women join to investigat ...
'' and Labia in the British/American television sitcom ''
Episodes
Episodes may refer to:
* Episode
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The noun ''episode'' is derived from the Greek ...
''. She also played Alice in
Sky One
Sky One was a British pay television channel operated and owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast). Originally launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, it was Europe's first satellite and non- terrestrial channel. From 31 July 1989, ...
's 2017 drama ''
Jamestown''.
Early life
Rundle was born in
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. She has two brothers. She attended
Bournemouth School for Girls
Bournemouth School for Girls is a grammar academy school located in Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
It is a girls grammar school and sixth form college, teaching girls aged 11 to 18.
Academics
Since September 2005, it has been a humanities specia ...
. In 2011, Rundle graduated from the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Senat ...
with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree in Acting.
Career
Screen
Rundle started her career in the British
horror comedy film ''Small Town Folk'' in 2007 opposite
Warwick Davis. Later in 2012, she starred in the
ITV four-part television
miniseries
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period drama
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romance film, romances, adventure f ...
, ''
Titanic
RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, Unite ...
'', created by producer
Nigel Stafford-Clark
Nigel Stafford-Clark (born 12 June 1948) is a British film and television producer, and the brother of the theatre director Max Stafford-Clark. He was educated at Felsted and Trinity College, Cambridge, and worked in advertising and in sponsore ...
and written by
Julian Fellowes, which is based on
the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''. Later that year, she guest-starred as Labia in the British/American television sitcom ''
Episodes
Episodes may refer to:
* Episode
An episode is a narrative unit within a larger dramatic work or documentary production, such as a series intended for radio, television or streaming consumption.
The noun ''episode'' is derived from the Greek ...
'' opposite
Matt LeBlanc
Matthew Steven LeBlanc (; born July 25, 1967) is an American actor. He garnered global recognition with his portrayal of Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcom ''Friends'' and in its spin-off series, ''Joey''. For his work on ''Friends'', LeBlanc r ...
and
Stephen Mangan
Stephen James Mangan (born 16 May 1968) is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He has played Guy Secretan in ''Green Wing'', Dan Moody in ''I'm Alan Partridge'', Seán Lincoln in '' Episodes'', Bigwig in ''Watership Down'', Postm ...
, which aired on
Showtime and
BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream a ...
.
Also in 2012, Rundle appeared in ''
Great Expectations
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'' directed by
Mike Newell. The film premiered at the
2012 Toronto International Film Festival
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and was released in the UK on 30 November 2012.
Rundle also played Sefa in the two-part episode ''Arthur's Bane'' of the final season of the BBC TV series ''
Merlin
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''.
She played a lead role in the
ITV mystery drama series ''
The Bletchley Circle
''The Bletchley Circle'' is a television mystery drama series, set in 1952–53, about four women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park. Dissatisfied with the officials' failure to investigate complex crimes, the women join to investigat ...
'', about four women who investigate a series of murders, and ended on 27 January 2014. On the series' cancellation, Rundle stated:
She also appears as Ada Shelby in the BBC Two period
crime drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and comb ...
series ''
Peaky Blinders
The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1910s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to middle-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racke ...
'', based on the memoirs of the Shelby family, whose many brothers, sisters, and relatives make up the fiercest gang of all in interwar Birmingham. On mastering the
Brummie
The Brummie dialect, or more formally the Birmingham dialect, is spoken by many people in Birmingham, England, and some of its surrounding areas. "Brummie" is also a demonym for people from Birmingham. It is often erroneously used in referring to ...
accent during production, 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. Also, in an interview with ''
Radio Times
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Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves ...
'', in regards to her casting in the series, Rundle stated:
Rundle played the lead role of Fiona Griffiths, a young
detective constable in the
Sky Living
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two-part crime series ''
Talking to the Dead'', based on the eponymous novel by Harry Bingham. It was adapted by
Golden Globe Award
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-nominee
Gwyneth Hughes
Gwyneth Hughes is a British documentary director and screenwriter who works mainly in television.
Early life
She is a former newspaper journalist from the north of England.
Career
Her credits include the crime drama '' Five Days'', ''Cherished' ...
. On playing Fiona Griffiths, Rundle did some research on
Cotard's Syndrome to portray Griffiths accurately. She agrees that her character in the series is a little "loopy": "Well, yes. Part of the mystery of the show is trying to work out what is going on with her. You know that there is a history of trauma there and you are trying to figure that out. It is being fed to you in little bits. She has a history of mental health issues too, which gives her an affinity with the dead."
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
''Call the Midwife'' is a BBC period drama series about a group of nurse midwives working in the East End of London in the late 1950s and 1960s. The principal cast of the show has included Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Helen George, Bryony Ha ...
'', which aired on 2 March 2014. She also starred in the six-part
BBC One
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police procedural
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series ''
Happy Valley'' as Kirsten McAskill, a rookie policewoman who stops Lewis (played by
Adam Long) for speeding and is then run over by his accomplice in a recent kidnapping, Tommy (portrayed by
James Norton), a convicted drug offender, thus killing her. On the dramatic development for her character throughout the series, Rundle hinted that she
irsten "is so young and eager and enthusiastic about her job, it's a real shock when what happens happens — and it's quite exciting as well." The series debuted on 29 April 2014, and was created by
Sally Wainwright
Sally Anne Wainwright (born 1963) is an English television writer, producer, and director from Yorkshire. Early in her career, Wainwright worked as a playwright, and as a scriptwriter on the long-running radio serial drama ''The Archers''. In t ...
which stars
Sarah Lancashire and
Steve Pemberton
Steven James Pemberton (born 1 September 1967) is a British actor, comedian, director and writer. He is best known as a member of '' The League of Gentlemen'' with Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss, and Jeremy Dyson. Pemberton and Shearsmith also c ...
.
On 4 October 2014, Rundle appeared in the live cooking programme ''
Saturday Kitchen
''Saturday Kitchen Live'' is a British cookery programme, that is broadcast live on BBC One every Saturday between 10.00am and 11.30am produced by Cactus TV.
History
2002–2003
After a pilot hosted by Ainsley Harriott on 14 April 2001, the ...
'' presented by
James Martin as an interviewed guest.
Rundle starred as Eva Smith/Daisy Renton in
Helen Edmundson
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Early life
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