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Sophie Louise Holland is a Welsh actress trained at the London Academy of Performing Arts. She made her acting debut as part of a dance show at the Drury Lane Theatre, London aged 17. She received the Cinequest Film Festival Audience Award 2007 in California for her performance in Nobody the Great , written and directed by Screen Nation Award winner Kara Miller. Her first on-screen role was that of Ally in the Warner Brothers film Forest of the Damned with Tom Savini and Richard Cambridge.
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2008 | Cold Earth | |
| Beyond the Rave | ||
| 2007 | Worms | short |
| Spare Change | short | |
| The Detective | short | |
| Nobody the Great | ||
| 2006 | Penrose | short |
| 2005 | Forest of the Damned |
| Year | Title | Episode |
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| 2007 | Holby City | "I Know Thee Knot" |
| 2003 | Midsomer Murders | "Death and Dreams" |
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Jane Seymour is a British actress. After making her screen debut as an uncredited extra in the 1969 musical comedy Oh! What a Lovely War, Seymour moved to roles in film and television, including a leading role in the television series The Onedin Line (1972–1973) and the role of psychic Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973).
Audrey Kathleen Hepburn was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career in Hollywood and was recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List.
Sophie Anna Ward is an English stage and screen actress, and a writer of non-fiction and fiction. As an actress, she played Jocelyn Sheffield in The Nanny, she also played Elizabeth Hardy, the female lead in Barry Levinson's Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), and in other feature film roles including in Cary Joji Fukunaga's period drama Jane Eyre (2011), and Jane Sanger's horror feature, Swiperight (2020). In 1982 she had a role in the Academy Award-winning best short film, A Shocking Accident. On television she played Dr Helen Trent in British police drama series Heartbeat from 2004 to 2006, the character Sophia Byrne in the series Holby City from 2008 to 2010, the role of Lady Ellen Hoxley in the series Land Girls from 2009 to 2011, and that of Lady Verinder in the mini-series The Moonstone (2016). She has had a variety of other roles on stage and in short and feature films.
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Aftersun is a 2022 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Charlotte Wells in her feature directorial debut. Starring Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, and Celia Rowlson-Hall, the film is loosely based on Wells' childhood and follows an 11-year-old Scottish girl on holiday with her father at a Turkish resort on the eve of his 31st birthday.