Molly Windsor

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Molly Windsor
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Windsor in 2017
Born
Nottingham, England
Alma materTalent 1st organisation
Occupation Actress
Years active2007–present

Molly Windsor is an English actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 2009 Channel 4 television film The Unloved , and she has appeared in Oranges and Sunshine (2010) and The Runaways (2019). She is best known for her performance in the 2017 BBC miniseries Three Girls , for which she won the 2018 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress; in 2017, she was also named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit.

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Early life

Windsor was discovered by the writer and director of BAFTA-winning The Unloved , Samantha Morton, in a local drama school and casting agency, Rama Young Actors. [1] Windsor attended the Nottingham Actors Studio, a not-for-profit CIC organisation, and the Television Workshop, [2] and has signed a contract with London-based talent agency, the Artists Partnership. [3] [4]

Career

Windsor's first professional acting role was in 2009 as Lucy Manvers in the television movie The Unloved at age 11. [5] The Times described her character as "played with an unsettling stillness". [1] She played Margaret's daughter in the 2010 film Oranges and Sunshine .

In 2017, she played Holly Winshaw in the BBC miniseries Three Girls , [6] which was based on the Rochdale child sex abuse ring, and for which she won the 2018 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. [6]

In 2019, she played Angie in The Runaways .

Recognition

In 2017, Windsor was named as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, one of the 20 members from the film, television and gaming industries. [7]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2007The Imaginary GirlAmyShort
2009 My Last Five Girlfriends Kids at Camp
2010 Oranges and Sunshine Rachel
2012 When the Lights Went Out Pale Girl
2017Black RoadLillyShort
Johnny Marr & Maxine Peake: The PriestHomeless GirlVideo short
2019 The Runaways Angie
2019Make UpRuth
2022 She Said Young Zelda Perkins

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009 The Unloved Lucy ManversTV movie
2017 Three Girls Holly WinshawTV mini-series, 3 episodes
Nominated — RTS Breakthrough Award - On Screen (2018) [8]
Winner — 2018 BAFTA TV Award for Best Leading Actress
2019CheatRose Vaughan ITV drama series
2019 Traces Emma Hedges Alibi drama series, subsequently repeated on BBC1 in January 2021
2022 War of the Worlds MarthaThird season of FoxNetworks / CanalPlus production
TBA Out of the Dust RosieFilming [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 Lesley White (10 May 2009). "Samatha Morton uses her life for The Unloved". The Times. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Talent 1st" . Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Breakthrough Brits 2017 - Molly Windsor". BAFTA. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "Molly Windsor". The Artists Partnership. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "The Wylde Interview: Molly". wyldemag.com. 26 November 2019.
  6. 1 2 Khaleeli, Homa (16 May 2017). "Molly Windsor, star of Rochdale abuse drama Three Girls: 'It made me really angry'". theguardian.com.
  7. ↑ "BAFTA Announces Breakthrough Brits of 2017". BAFTA. 25 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "RTS Programme Awards 2018, In Partnership with Audio Network". UK: Royal Television Society. 20 March 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  9. ↑ Yossman, K.J. (27 August 2024). "Asa Butterfield, Molly Windsor, Fra Fee, Siobhan Finneran and Christopher Eccleston Set for Netflix Series 'Out of the Dust' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
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