Charlotte Riley

Charlotte Riley Biography

Charlotte Riley (born 29 December 1981) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Sarah Hurst in Easy Virtue and as Catherine Earnshaw in ITV's adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

Early life and education

Riley was born in Grindon, Stockton-on-Tees, England. She comes from County Durham and attended Teesside High School from the age of 9 until 18. She attended St Cuthbert's, Durham University from 2000-03, performing with the Durham Revue and in a number of plays and musicals and graduating with a degree in English and Linguistics; she also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 2005 to 2007.

Career

In 2004, Riley won the Sunday Times' Playwriting Award for Shaking Cecilia, which she co-wrote with Tiffany Wood. She appeared in Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. She also appeared onstage at the Royal Court Theatre production of The Priory, by Michael Wynne. She co-starred in London Has Fallen, the sequel to the 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen, where she portrayed an MI6 agent Jacqueline Marshall. She also portrayed Arabella Strange in the miniseries adaption of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Personal life

She became engaged to English actor Tom Hardy in 2010. Riley and Hardy worked together on Wuthering Heights and The Take. The couple married in July 2014. In October 2015, their first child was born.

Filmography

Year	Name	Role	Notes
2007	Grownups	Chloe	Episode: "Send"
2007	Holby City	Tanya Cusan	Episode: "Someone to Watch Over Me"
2008	Survey No. 257	Emma	Short film
2008	Inspector George Gently	Carmel O'Shaughnessy	Episode: "The Burning Man"
2008	Easy Virtue	Sarah Hurst
2009	Wuthering Heights	Catherine Earnshaw	Television film
2009	The Take	Maggie Summers	4 episodes
2009	Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen	Peggy Lytton	Television film
2009	Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side	Margot Bence	Television film
2010	Foyle's War	Mandy Dean	Episode: "Killing Time"
2010-2011	DCI Banks	Lucy Payne	3 episodes
2012	The Town	Alice	3 episodes
2012	World Without End	Caris	8 episodes Nominated"?Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television
2012	Entity	Kate Hansen
2014	Edge of Tomorrow	Nance
2014	Peaky Blinders	May Carleton	2nd season
2014	In the Heart of the Sea	Peggy Gardner Chase
2015	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Arabella
2016	London Has Fallen	MI6 Agent Jacqueline "Jax" Marshall

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