Charity Wakefield

Charity Rose Wakefield (born 18 September 1980) is an English actress.

Charity Rose Wakefield
Born (1980-09-18) 18 September 1980
Sussex, England
Alma materBexhill College
Oxford School of Drama (2000–03)
OccupationActress
Years active2004–present
Spouse(s)
David Newman
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(m. after 2016)​
RelativesJames Hayter (maternal grandfather)

Early life and education

Wakefield was born 18 September 1980 in Sussex, England. At a couple of months old she moved with her mother Caroline to Villajoyosa, a small village near Alicante in Comunidad Valenciana, Spain. They returned to East Sussex, England, when Wakefield was four. She has a half-sister, Olivia, who is seven years younger. Her maternal grandfather was actor James Hayter.

Wakefield went to Bexhill College, and studied acting at the Oxford School of Drama from 2000 to 2003.[1] As well as acting, she plays the violin and has a strong soprano singing voice.[2]

Career

Charity began her acting career back in 1987 while taking part in an amateur dramatics school production of "Sleeping Beauty", co-starring Lee Taylor of Ninfield, East Sussex. Wakefield and Taylor played key roles, and Taylor stepped in to fill the lead role after an unexpected sickness. 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,[3] and also appeared in Casualty 1907.[4]

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; she first met her future husband, David Newman, when they acted together in The Graduate.[5] 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 had a lead role as Marianne Dashwood in the BBC production of Jane Austen's Sense amd Sensibility. She appeared in the Channel 4 drama Any Human Heart[8] and played the lead in the British film noir Scar Tissue. In March 2012 she was cast in Mockingbird Lane, the re-imagining of The Munsters for NBC.[9]

She appeared as Mary Boleyn in the 2015 BBC2 television series Wolf Hall.[10] She also appeared in the NBC drama The Player with Philip Winchester and Wesley Snipes.[11]

On Christmas Day 2016, she was one of the principal guest stars in the BBC1 Doctor Who Christmas special "The Return of Doctor Mysterio".

In 2017, she appeared in two episodes of the ITV drama The Halcyon, playing Charity Lambert.[12] Wakefield appeared in the main cast of both series (2017 and 2019) of the Sky One comedy drama Bounty Hunters, playing Leah Hoover, sister of the character of series co-creator and co-lead Jack Whitehall.[13]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2004 (Past Present Future) Imperfect Beanie
2007 Exitz Billy
2009 Vivaldi, the Red Priest Ludovica
2009 Burlesque Fairytales Grace
2009 Act of God Laura O'Connor
2011 National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard Anya
2012 The Raven Field's Maid
2012 Day of the Flowers Ailie
2012 Scared Abby Short
2012 In Absence Abi Short
2013 Scar Tissue Sam
2014 Serena Agatha
2017 Kill Switch Mia
2017 Wraps Ivy Short
20?? The Mechanicals of Hemp Robin / Snug / Oberon Short, completed

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2004 Hex Lucy Episode: "Life Goes On"
2006 Jane Eyre Miss Temple Episode: "1.1"
2007 Doctors Carole Hilton Episode: "Personal Services"
2008 Fairy Tales Billy Jane Brooke Episode: "Rapunzel"
2008 Sense & Sensibility Marianne Dashwood Lead role
2008–2009 Casualty 1900s Ethel Bennett Main role
2010 Legally Mad Brady Hamm TV film
2010 Any Human Heart Land Fothergill Episode: "1.1"
2011 Midsomer Murders Ruth Lambert Episode: "The Oblong Murders"
2012 Leaving Phoebe TV miniseries
2012 Mockingbird Lane Marilyn Munster TV special
2013 Agatha Christie's Marple Molly Kendall Episode: "A Caribbean Mystery"
2014 High Moon Eve TV film
2015 Wolf Hall Mary Boleyn TV miniseries
2015 The Player Cassandra King Main role
2016 Close to the Enemy Julia TV miniseries
2016 Doctor Who Lucy Episode: "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"
2016 Broken Jules Episode: "Pilot"
2017 The Halcyon Charity Lambert Episodes: "1.1", "1.2"
2017 Genius Betty Episodes: "Einstein: Chapters 1 & 8"
2017 Bounty Hunters Leah Walker Main role
2020 The Great Georgina Dymov TV series
20?? Salvage Gwen TV film, completed

References
  1. (5 September 2005) Charity Wakefield, The Stage
  2. Wakefield, Charity – Who's who on UK TV Hello! magazine.
  3. (7 July 2007) Lee Ingleby, Charity Wakefield and Shaun Williamson let down their hair in BBC One's Rapunzel, BBC
  4. (8 August 2007) More historical medical crises ... Casualty 1907 comes to BBC One, BBC
  5. "Charity Wakefield Married An Actor! Meet Boyfriend-Turned-Husband". liverampup.com. Liverampup.com. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  6. Whitelaw, Emma Laugh – Then thank your lucky stars you weren't born a Dingleberry, Indie London
  7. Freddi: new BBC Four comedy commission BBC Press Office. 19 September 2008
  8. "Meet the rising stars of Any Human Heart". The Guardian. 20 November 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  9. Say Hello to the New Marilyn Munster of Mockingbird Lane
  10. "Mary Boleyn (Charity Wakefield) – Who are the royal subjects? – Wolf Hall – BBC Two". BBC. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  11. "Charity Wakefield To Star In 'Endgame'; Ben Hollingsworth Joins 'Code Black'". Deadline. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  12. "Meet the cast of The Halcyon". Radio Times. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  13. "Bounty Hunters: Interview With CHARITY WAKEFIELD who plays Leah Walker". Bradfordzone.com. 23 February 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
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