Freya Parks

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Freya Parks
OccupationActress
Years active2009—
Television Here We Go

Freya Parks is a British stage, television and film actress.

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Career

As a child actress, Parks portrayed Etty Darwin in the 2009 film Creation alongside Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connolly. She played Helen Burns in the Cary Joji Fukunaga 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre , and appeared in Tom Hooper's 2012 musical adaptation of Les Misérables . [1] She starred in Amazon Prime Video's Bliss! in 2016. [2]

In 2018, she was part of the touring stage production of Tristan Bernays and Dougal Irvine's musical Teddy . [3] [4]

Parks had a main role as Amy Jessop in 2020 comedy pilot Pandemonium developed by Tom Basden in which she starred alongside Katherine Parkinson and Jim Howick, [5] which developed into BBC Two comedy series Here We Go . [6] A second series was filmed in 2023, and broadcast in 2024. [7]

In 2022, she played Hester, the leader of the School for Evil's coven, in the Paul Feig film The School for Good and Evil . [8] [9] In 2024, she can be seen as Fiona in Steven Knight's BBC One six-part series This Town . [10] [11]

Filmography

Key
Denotes works that have not yet been released
YearTitleRoleNotes
2009 Creation Etty DarwinFilm
2011 Jane Eyre Helen BurnsFilm
2012The Life and Adventures of Nick NicklebyMariah CrummlesMini-series, 2 episodes
Les Misérables Café BarmaidFilm
2016Bliss!Tasha RobsonFilm
2020–2024 Here We Go Amy Jessop14 episodes
2021 School's Out Forever Claire BakerFilm
Love Gets a Room NiusiaFilm
2022 The School for Good and Evil HesterFilm
2024 This Town Fiona5 episodes
Grace Logan Somerville1 episode: "You Are Dead"

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