Alexandria Riley

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Alexandria Riley
Education Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (MA)
OccupationActress
Television Silo
The Pembrokeshire Murders

Alexandria Riley is a Welsh actress and documentarian. Her acting roles include Silo (2023-present). She was nominated for a leading actress BAFTA at the 2021 BAFTA Cymru Awards for her role in The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021).

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Early life and education

Alexandria Riley was born and raised in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom. [1]

She graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2022. [2]

Career

Documentaries

Riley anchored the Welsh documentary film Mixed, part of the New Voices from Wales series, broadcast on BBC Two Wales in March 2019, which looked at her own experiences, and those of others, being mixed-race in Wales. [1] She also featured in the Liana Stewart 2020 documentary Black and Welsh. [3] [4]

Acting

She had early acting roles in The End of the F***ing World and the BBC Three comedy In My Skin .

She played DI Ella Richards in ITV crime series The Pembrokeshire Murders in 2024. [5] She was nominated for a leading actress BAFTA Award at the 2021 BAFTA Cymru Awards for her role. [6]

She also appeared as Natalie in BBC Wales comedy The Tuckers, in which she starred opposite creator Steve Speirs, and S4C's Bang. She appeared in stage productions for National Theatre Wales. [7]

In 2023 she appeared in Wales-set British television film Men Up . [8] From 2023, she played Camille Sims, wife of Robert (Common), in Apple TV+ series Silo . [9]

She had roles in Baby Reindeer and Lost Boys and Fairies , as well as 2025 BBC One crime mystery series Death Valley , alongside Timothy Spall, among others. [10] [11]

Personal life

She has a Welsh mother and a father from the Caribbean. She has a son, Evan. [1]

Partial filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2017BangTracy2 episodes
2018–2021 In My Skin Mrs Morgan10 episodes
2019 The End of the F***ing World Leigh4 episodes
2020–2022 The Tuckers Natalie Tucker18 episodes
2021 The Outlaws Yvonne2 episodes
2021 The Pembrokeshire Murders DI Ella Richards3 episodes
2021 The Pact DC Anford5 episodes
2023 The End We Start From PFilm
2023 Men Up Alys ShahTV film
2023- Silo Camille Sims9 episodes
2024Ar y Ffin5 episodes
2024 Lost Boys and Fairies Sharon2 episodes
2024 Baby Reindeer Detective Culver3 episodes
2025 Death Valley Helen BaxterSeries

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Mixed-race Newport actress makes film on her struggles with her own identity". South Wales Argus. 3 March 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Alexandria Riley". rwcmd.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  3. ↑ "'Don't assume because we're black we're not Welsh'". BBC News. 26 October 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  4. ↑ "BBC's Black and Welsh with Newport actor Alexandria Riley - what we learned". South Wales Argus. 27 October 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  5. ↑ Cremona, Patrick (4 Dec 2024). "Meet the cast of The Pembrokeshire Murders". Radio Times. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  6. ↑ "Gangs of London leads Bafta Cymru awards". Televisual. 25 October 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  7. ↑ Williams, Kathryn (5 Jan 2021). "Who is The Pembrokeshire Murders' DI Ella Richards actor Alexandria Riley?". Walesonline. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  8. ↑ Berry, Jo (30 Dec 2023). "Men Up cast: Meet the characters in BBC drama". Radio Times. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  9. ↑ Bardini, Julio (27 Jan 2025). "Why Did the Algorithm Choose This 'Silo' Season 2 Character?". Collider. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  10. ↑ "Death Valley - the new BBC comedy drama - reveals cast". Comedy.co.uk. 11 September 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Cook, Sam (11 September 2024). "First look at Timothy Spall's Welsh filmed murder mystery Death Valley with Gavin & Stacey and Baby Reindeer stars". Walesonline. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
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