Charlotte Spencer | |
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 Spencer at the BFI London Film Festival in 2014 | |
| Born | 26 September 1991 |
| Education | Sylvia Young Theatre School |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer, dancer |
| Years active | 2004–present |
Charlotte Spencer (born 26 September 1991) is an English actress, dancer and singer. She is known for playing the female lead in The Living and the Dead . [1] [2] Screen International magazine named her a Star of Tomorrow 2015. [3]
Spencer was born on 26 September 1991 in Harlow, Essex, [3] [4] to Peter and Karen. She has a younger sister and brother. [5] Spencer said of her background, "I come from a working class background; my dad's a builder and my mum works in a school." [6] She started ballet aged three and wanted to perform since then. [6] At the age of 11, her parents sent her to the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, London. [3] Her parents remortgaged their house to support her acting career. [5] In 2016,[ needs update ] she lived with her parents when not working as an actor, [5] and worked with her grandmother at a charity shop and helps with the choir at her mother's infants' school. She has a dog, Chip. [5]
Spencer made her acting debut at the age of 12 as Jane Banks in Richard Eyre's 2004 production of the musical Mary Poppins . [3] [7] In 2009, she played Bet in Oliver! . [8] In 2013, Eyre again cast her, this time as Christine Keeler, in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Stephen Ward , with Charlotte Blackledge as Mandy Rice-Davies. [3] [9] The show's run was cancelled shortly afterwards. [7]
Spencer appeared as Dexter Fletcher's daughter in Hotel Babylon . [5] She was the voice of Angelina Ballerina on Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps when she was 17,[ citation needed ] and has since worked as a voice actor, as Nettles in the 2018 television series Watership Down and as a continuity announcer for the Disney Channel. [7] She appeared in the films Wild Bill and Les Misérables in 2011 [5] [10] and then Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp in 2012. [5]
After her theatre appearance as Christine Keeler ended, Spencer had a small part in Line of Duty and then was cast by the same director as the jockey Tina Fallon in the 2014 E4 television series Glue . [11] [7] She was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for this role in 2015. [3] [12] Deadline Hollywood reported that she would star in Broad Squad; [13] in 2015, she appeared in a pilot of Broad Squad as a 1970s police officer on ABC, [3] which was not made into a series. [5] She starred as Niamh in the BFI short, Above, which won Best Short Film at the National Film Awards UK. [14] She played the lead role, Lilly, in the film Bypass with George MacKay [6] and appeared as Ellie in the BBC2 television series Stonemouth . [15] In 2015, she was nominated for best actress awards for Stonemouth at BAFTA Scotland. [16] In the BBC1 horror television series The Living and the Dead , broadcast in June 2016, she played the role of Charlotte Appelby, a photographer turned housewife, with Colin Morgan. [17] She said of the role, "Since I was a child, I've always wanted to do a period drama." [18] She appeared in another period drama in autumn 2019, as Esther Denham in Sanditon , a television adaptation of the unfinished Jane Austen novel. [7] She defended the inclusion of sex and nudity as historically accurate and "humanising". [19]
In May 2016, she filmed the BBC/NFTS short film Diagnosis in the lead role of Sally, a woman who acts in medical role play. [20] Spencer will also play[ needs update ] a hapless youth in the teen horror film Gateway, which uses the Momo Challenge as a plot device. [21]
| Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Five Days | Jaime | Episode: "Day Seventy Nine and Day One" |
| 2008 | Hotel Babylon | Liz Casemore | Episode: "Ke Koa Lokomaika'i" |
| 2008 | Genie in the House | Cara | Episode: "Look to the Future" |
| 2009 | Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps | Angelina Ballerina | Voice role |
| 2014 | Line of Duty | Carly Kirk | |
| 2014 | Glue | Tina | |
| 2015 | Stonemouth [22] | Ellie Murston | |
| 2016 | The Living and the Dead | Charlotte Appleby | |
| 2018 | Watership Down | Nettles | Voice role |
| 2019–2022 | Sanditon | Esther Denham | 16 episodes |
| 2020 | Us [23] | Karen Petersen | 4 episodes |
| 2020 | Baghdad Central | Megan Ford | |
| 2021 | Jeopardy | Charlotte Spencer | 10 episodes |
| 2021 | Ted Lasso | Mary (Red Dress) | Episode "Beard after Hours" |
| 2023 | The Gold | Nicki Jennings | 6 episodes [24] |
| Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Wild Bill | Steph | |
| 2012 | Dark Shadows | Unnamed | |
| 2012 | Les Miserables | Unnamed | |
| 2017 | Diagnosis | Sally | Short |
| 2015 | Above | Niamh | BFI short |
| 2020 | Misbehaviour | Marjorie Jones | |
| 2020 | The Duke | Pammy | |
| 2021 | Cinderella | Narissa | |
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