Kate Phillips (born 21 May 1989) is a British actress. She became famous for her role as

Jane Seymour Jane Seymour (c. 150824 October 1537) was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII of England from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution of Henry's second wife, Anne ...

in the successful miniseries ''

Wolf Hall ''Wolf Hall'' is a 2009 historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, ''Wolf Hall'' is a symp ...

'' (2015). She subsequently appeared in the miniseries '' War & Peace'' (2016), the first season of the television series ''

The Crown The Crown is the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states). Legally ill-defined, the term has differ ...

'' (2016), and last three seasons of the 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 ...

'' (2016–2022). In 2019, she appeared as Princess Mary in the film ''

Downton Abbey ''Downton Abbey'' is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes. The series first aired in the United Kingdom on ITV on 26 September 2010 and in the United States o ...

''. Since 2020, she has appeared as Eliza Scarlet, the series lead, in the

Victorian era In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardia ...

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 combin ...

, ''

Miss Scarlet and The Duke ''Miss Scarlet and The Duke'' is a British-American Period drama, period Crime drama, crime television drama created by Rachael New, starring Kate Phillips and Stuart Martin as the title characters, two Victorian era, Victorian detectives. The ...

''.

Biography

After spending three years studying at

Leeds University , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

, Phillips secured a place at

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a conservatoire and drama school located in the City of London, United Kingdom. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz ...

in London. After graduation she returned to Leeds to appear as Abigail Williams in ''

The Crucible ''The Crucible'' is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as ...

'' at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. By this time she had already filmed her scenes for the BBC's adaptation of ''Wolf Hall'' in which she played

, a role she had been offered whilst still studying at Guildhall. There was some mild controversy following the initial airing of ''Wolf Hall'' after some historians described Philips as 'too pretty' to play Henry VIII's third wife. This criticism was disregarded by several critics who praised Philips' performance with ''Screen Daily'' naming her as a 'Star of Tomorrow'. She went on to secure roles in ''War & Peace'', ''

'' and ''

''. An August 2018 announcement indicated that Phillips would be among the new cast to join the original actors in the feature film ''

'' which started principal photography at about the same time. In 2020 Phillips took on one of the lead roles in detective series ''Miss Scarlet and the Duke''.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Phillips, Kate Living people British television actresses British stage actresses 1989 births