Isabella Pappas | |
|---|---|
 Pappas in 2022 | |
| Born | Isabella Noemi Pappas 21 August 2002 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2012–present |
Isabella Noemi Pappas (born 21 August 2002) [1] is an Olivier Award nominated actress based in London. She began her career on the London stage, earning Laurence Olivier and WhatsOnStage Award nominations. On television, she is known for her roles in the ITV series Finding Alice (2021) and the Disney Channel series The Villains of Valley View (2022–present).
Pappas was born in northern Italy and spent her early childhood on a farm. [2] [3] Her father is a pilot, and her mother is an American autism specialist. [4] She also has French and Greek heritage. Pappas attended an international school and lived in Japan for two years for her mother's work. [5]
The family settled in Chiswick, West London when Pappas was 11. She attended Sylvia Young Theatre School and later Arts Educational School (ArtsEd) for sixth form, studying Drama and English Literature. [6] [7] She also took classes at the British Theatre Academy and participated in Michael Xavier's MX Masterclass. [8]
Upon moving to the city at 11 years old, Pappas made her London stage debut in the 2014 production of The Nether at the Royal Court Theatre in the role of Iris, which she shared with Zoe Brough, Jaime Adler, and Perdita Hibbins. The production moved to the Duke of York's Theatre on the West End in 2015. Pappas, Brough, Adler, and Hibbins were jointly nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2015 Laurence Olivier Awards for their performances.
Pappas then starred as the titular Annie! on the show's 2015 tour around the UK. [9] She made her television debut as Sarah Waingrow in the 2016 ITV crime drama miniseries Paranoid . She played Nina in the Stockwell Playhouse production of In the Heights in 2017. This was followed in 2018 by roles in 13 at Porthcurno's Minack Theatre, the Theatre Royal Stratford East's Terror at The Sweetshop, and Bring It On: The Musical at Southwark Playhouse.
For her performance as Cassidy Kramer-Lafayette in the 2019 run of the play Appropriate at the Donmar Warehouse, Pappas was nominated for the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Play. [10] She returned to television with guest appearances in the CBBC musical Almost Never in 2019 and the Channel 4 comedy-drama Home in 2020.
Pappas landed her first main television role as Charlotte Walsh, the daughter of Keeley Hawes' titular character, in the 2021 ITV comedy-drama Finding Alice . [11] [12]
She was then cast in a Disney pilot (working titles included Amy from Amarillo and Meet the Mayhems), [13] which became The Villains of Valley View and premiered in 2022 on Disney Channel and Disney+. [14]
In 2023, Pappas was cast as Joyce Maldonado (later Byers) in the Stranger Things prequel stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow , [15] which will premiere on 17 November 2023 at the Phoenix Theatre in London. Pappas also played the first victim of Jimmy Savile in an episode of the BBC One miniseries The Reckoning . She has a role in the upcoming film Beach Boys. [16]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Paranoid | Sarah Waingrow | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
| 2017 | Horizon Zero Dawn | Young Nora | Video game; voice role |
| 2019 | Almost Never | Rosie | Episode: "The Single" |
| 2020 | Home | Gemma | 1 episode |
| 2021 | Finding Alice | Charlotte Walsh | Main role |
| 2022–present | The Villains of Valley View | Amy Madden/ Havoc | Main role |
| 2023 | The Reckoning | Girl | 1 episode |
| TBA | Beach Boys | TBA | Film |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Le Nozze di Figaro | Ensemble | |
| 2014–2015 | The Nether | Iris | Duke of York's Theatre and Royal Court Theatre, London |
| 2015 | Annie! | Annie | UK tour |
| 2017 | In the Heights | Nina | Stockwell Playhouse, London |
| 2018 | 13 | Lucy | Minack Theatre, Porthcurno |
| 2018 | Terror at The Sweetshop | Emma | Theatre Royal Stratford East, London |
| 2018 | Bring It On: The Musical | Skylar | Southwark Playhouse, London |
| 2019 | Appropriate | Cassidy Kramer-Lafayette | Donmar Warehouse, London |
| 2022 | Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon | Ella | Southwark Playhouse, London [17] |
| 2023 | Stranger Things: The First Shadow | Joyce Maldonado | Phoenix Theatre, London |
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Laurence Olivier Awards | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | The Nether (with Jamie Adler, Zoe Brough, Perdita Hibbins) | Nominated | [18] |
| 2020 | WhatsOnStage Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Play | Appropriate | Nominated | [19] |
Tamsin Margaret Mary Greig is a British actress. She is known for both dramatic and comedic roles. She played Fran Katzenjammer in the Channel 4 sitcom Black Books, Dr Caroline Todd in the Channel 4 sitcom Green Wing, Beverly Lincoln in British-American sitcom Episodes and Jackie Goodman in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner. Other roles include Alice Chenery in BBC One's comedy-drama series Love Soup, Debbie Aldridge in BBC Radio 4's soap opera The Archers, Miss Bates in the 2009 BBC version of Jane Austen's Emma, and Beth Hardiment in the 2010 film version of Tamara Drewe. In 2020, Greig starred as Anne Trenchard in Julian Fellowes' ITV series Belgravia.
Sheridan Smith OBE is an English actress, singer, and television personality. Smith came to prominence after playing a variety of characters on sitcoms such as The Royle Family (1999–2000), Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001–2009), Gavin & Stacey (2008–2010), and Benidorm (2009). She co-starred as Joey Ross in the drama series Jonathan Creek between 2009 and 2013, and went on to receive acclaim for starring in a succession of television dramas, such as Mrs Biggs (2012), Cilla (2014), The C Word (2015), Black Work (2015), The Moorside (2017), Cleaning Up (2019), and Four Lives (2022). Her film credits include Tower Block (2012), Quartet (2012), The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016), and The Railway Children Return (2022).
Trevor John Eve is an English actor. In 1979 he gained fame as the eponymous lead in the detective series Shoestring and is also known for his role as Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd in BBC television drama Waking the Dead. He is the father of three children, including actress Alice Eve. He is the winner of two Laurence Olivier Awards from the nineties in theatre.
Toby Edward Heslewood Jones is an English actor. He is known for his extensive character actor roles on stage and screen. From 1989 to 1991, Jones trained at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. He made his stage debut in 2001 in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote, which played in the West End and on Broadway, earning him a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2020, he was nominated for his second Olivier Award, for Best Actor for his performance in a revival of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya.
Sharon Delores Clarke is an English actress and singer. She is a three-time Olivier Award winner, and is best known to television audiences for her role as Lola Griffin in the medical drama Holby City, and as Grace O'Brien in Doctor Who. Clarke has also played lead roles in many West End musicals, and originated the roles of the Killer Queen in We Will Rock You and Oda Mae Brown in Ghost the Musical.
Tracie Bennett is an English singer and stage and television actress. She trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in Clapham, London. She played the role of Sharon Gaskell in Coronation Street from 1982 to 1984, returning to the role in 1999 and again in 2021.
Hayley Elizabeth Atwell is a British and American actress. After appearing on various West End productions, Atwell gained popularity for her roles in period-drama films, appearing in the films Brideshead Revisited (2008), The Duchess (2008) and the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth (2010); for the latter two, she was nominated for a British Independent Film Award and a Golden Globe Award respectively.
Lara Pulver is an English actress. She has played Erin Watts in the BBC spy drama Spooks and Irene Adler on BBC's TV adaptation Sherlock. She won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical in the West End's revival of the Broadway musical Gypsy.
Noma Dumezweni is a South African-British actress. In 2006, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for her performance as Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. In 2017, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Hermione Granger in the original West End run of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; she reprised the role for the show's original Broadway run and, in 2018, was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
Marcia Warren is an English stage, film and television actress. On stage, she appeared in Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati and The Sea (2008) at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. In 2022 and 2023, she starred as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in seasons 5 and 6 of the Netflix historical drama series The Crown.
Hannah Waddingham is a British actress, singer and television presenter. She is known for playing businessperson Rebecca Welton in the comedy series Ted Lasso (2020–2023), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2021 and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2021 and 2022. She has also appeared in a number of West End shows, including Spamalot, the 2010 Regent's Park revival of Into the Woods, and The Wizard of Oz as the Wicked Witch of the West, and has received three Olivier Award nominations for her work.
Cush Jumbo is a British actress and writer. She is best known for her leading role as attorney Lucca Quinn in the CBS drama series The Good Wife (2015–2016) and the Paramount Plus spin-off series The Good Fight (2017–2021) and most recently June Lenker in the Apple series Criminal Record (2024).
Denise Gough is an Irish actress. She has received a number of accolades, including two Laurence Olivier Awards as well as a nominations for a Tony Award and a British Academy Television Award.
Michael D. Xavier is an English actor and singer. He is a two-time Laurence Olivier Award nominee and has performed on Broadway and in the West End.
Kate O'Flynn is a British actress. She is known for her performance in National Theatre's production of Port for which she received a Critics' Circle Theatre Award in 2013, as well as starring roles in plays A Taste of Honey in 2014, and The Glass Menagerie for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2017.
Anjana Vasan is a Singaporean actress. Born into a Tamil family in India, she is based in the United Kingdom. For her stage work, Vasan has won a Laurence Olivier Award. She also played the lead in the Channel 4 sitcom We Are Lady Parts, for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award.
Jarnéia Richard-Noel is an English stage actress and singer. She is known for portraying the role of Catherine of Aragon in the musical Six on the original UK tour and in the West End production at the Arts Theatre, Lyric Theatre and Vaudeville Theatre, as well as forming part of pop girl group SVN.
Rhiannon Grace Clements is an English actress. While studying at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Clements began starring in various theatre productions, and went on to be awarded Best Stage Actor at the Spotlight Prize in 2019.
Chantelle Izuka Hoyle is a Scottish actress. She began her career in theatre. She won a Scottish BAFTA for her performance in the film Boiling Point (2021). On television, she is known for her roles in the CW series The Outpost (2020–2021) and the Channel 4 sitcom Big Boys (2022–).
Stephanie Adrienne McKeon is an Irish actress. She began her career as a teenager in the RTÉ soap opera Fair City (2004–2007). She was nominated for Laurence Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards for her role as Anna in the West End production of Frozen.