Olivia Vinall

Olivia Vinall is an English/Belgian actress known for her roles in Apple Tree Yard (2017), The Woman in White (2018) and as Detective Matilda Stone in Queens of Mystery in 2019.

Olivia Vinall
Olivia Vinall in 2015
Born
Brussels, Belgium [1]
OccupationActress
Years active2011 – present

Early life

Olivia Vinall was born in Brussels, Belgium[1] but spent part of her childhood in London and Washington DC, [2] where her diplomat father was posted. Her mother was a teacher.[3] Vinall lived most of her early life in Belgium, attending secondary school there, moving to Washington DC for five years.[4]

Vinall studied drama at the University of East Anglia and graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) Degree Drama before going on to Drama Studio London, for post-graduate experience.[5][1][4] Vinall has performed at the National Student Drama Festival and is an NSDF alumna.[6]

Theatre

In 2010, Vinall's first appearance on stage was in a production of Romeo and Juliet.[4] Further theatre work 2013 included playing Desdemona in Othello, and in 2014, Vinall starred as Cordelia in Sam Mendes's King Lear at The Royal National Theatre.[3][4] In 2015, Vinall took centre stage again at National Theatre Live in Tom Stoppard's play The Hard Problem as Hilary.[7]

TV and Film

Vinall's first television appearance was as Cassie Lock in the episode Cupcakes in Doctors in 2011.[8] In 2013, she starred as the heroine Juliette in the rock musical Gutterdämmerung alongside rock stars such as Iggy Pop, Grace Jones, Lemmy and Slash.[9] In 2017, Vinall starred in the BBC's Apple Tree Yard, where she played Carrie alongside Emily Watson.[3] In 2018, she starred in the Amma Asante-directed romantic war drama arthouse film Where Hands Touch playing Hermine, a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany, alongside Abbie Cornish and Christopher Eccleston.[3][5] In the same year, Vinall played two characters; asylum patient Anne Catherick and also Laura Fairlie in the BBC period drama adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White, alongside Charles Dance.[3][5] In 2019, Vinall took lead role as Detective Matilda Stone in three episodes of the Acorn TV comedy-drama murder-mystery series Queens of Mystery[10]

Vinall takes lead role as Sophie in Hermione Sylvester directed short film Fuel which has its international premiere at the 2020 Arrow London FrightFest Film Festival, an event which was held online because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]

Vinall played the role of Julia Blythe, the Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (played by Helen McCrory) in the BBC political thriller television series Roadkill in 2020.[12]

Other interests

Vinall supports equality and marched in London for women's rights and against period poverty in 2018. She has been vegan since 2017.[3]

Awards and nominations

In 2018, Vinall was nominated as one of Screen International’s "Stars of Tomorrow".[13]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role
2016 Gutterdämmerung Juliette
2018 Lungs (Short) Claire
2018 Where Hands Touch Hermine
2019 Fuel (Short) Sophie
2019 Salt (Short) Olivia
2019 Vert (Short) Jem
2021 A Beautiful Curse Stella

Live Streaming Theatre
Year Title Role Notes
2013 National Theatre Live Othello Desdemona Live via satellite
2014 National Theatre Live King Lear Cordelia Live via satellite
2015 National Theatre Live The Hard Problem Hilary Live via satellite

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2011 Doctors Cassie Lock 1 episode Cupcakes
2012 Casualty Georgia Saddler Season 27, episode 4 An Amateur Sport
2013 Doctor Who Effie 1 episode The Crimson Horror
2014-2015 Holby City Lisa Chad 3 episodes
2016 Midsomer Murders Kim Fosse 1 episode - Breaking the Chain
2017 Maigret in Montmartre Arlette TV film
2017 Apple Tree Yard Carrie 4 episodes
2018 The Woman in White Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick 5 episodes
2019 Queens of Mystery Matilda Stone 6 episodes
2020 Roadkill [12] Julia Blythe All 4 episodes

Audio
Year Title Role
2019 Middlemarch (BBC Audio) [14] Dorothea (voice)

Video Games
Year Title Role
2019 Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 (Video Game) Autarch Yramahr / Id'artharn (voice)
2015 Sword Coast Legends (Video Game) Illydia Maethellyn (voice)

References
  1. "Olivia Vinall - The rising star on her next show-stopping roles". wonderlandmagazine.com. April 30, 2018.
  2. "Olivia Vinall joins in the Halloween costume parade at the Maret School in Northwest Washington in 1993". Washington Post. 2014.
  3. "Meet Olivia Vinall, the star set to beguile TV audiences in the BBC's gothic thriller The Woman White". you.co.uk. April 9, 2018.
  4. "Introducing… Olivia Vinall". officiallondontheatre.com. January 30, 2014.
  5. "Stars of Tomorrow 2017: Olivia Vinall (actor)". screendaily.com. October 2, 2017.
  6. "Alumni - Olivia Vinall". nsdf.org.uk. 2020.
  7. "The Hard Problem review: Olivia Vinall shimmers in minor Tom Stoppard offering". Sydney Morning Herald. May 21, 2015.
  8. "Cupcakes Doctors Series 13 Episode 107 of 231". bbc.co.uk. September 23, 2011.
  9. "Gutterdämmerung". filmaffinity.com. 2016.
  10. "'The Woman In White's Olivia Vinall To Front Acorn TV's Female Detective Drama 'Queens Of Mystery'". deadline.com. September 6, 2018.
  11. "Arrow Video FrightFest August 2020 Short Film programme". blazingminds.co.uk. August 2020.
  12. "Roadkill - An Interview with Olivia Vinall". bbc.co.uk. October 7, 2020.
  13. "From Tom Stoppard to the BBC's The Woman In White: Meet Rising Stage and Screen Star Olivia Vinall". phoenixmag.co.uk. 2018.
  14. "Middlemarch - George Eliot's tale of life, love and politics in an English town. Adapted by Katie Hims". bbc.co.uk. November 2019.
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