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]
Charlotte Spencer | |
|---|---|
 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 |
Early and personal life
editSpencer 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]
Career
editTheatre
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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]
Film and television
editSpencer 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]
Filmography
editTelevision
edit| 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 | 14 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] |
Film
edit| 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 |
References
edit- ^ "Interview with Charlotte Spencer". BBC Media Centre. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ^ "Colin Morgan and Charlotte Spencer land leads in BBC's 'Living and the Dead' series". United Press International. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g Halligan, Fionnuala (5 October 2015). "Charlotte Spencer, Stars of Tomorrow 2015". Screen Daily. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ "Charlotte Spencer On Being Ginger, NSFW Scenes + Angelina Ballerina (Yes, Really)". InStyle UK. Archived from the original on 1 September 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- "Harlow actress Charlotte Spencer to star in The Living and the Dead". Harlow Star. 28 June 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016. - ^ a b c d e f g h Christie, Janet (25 June 2016). "Interview: Actor Charlotte Spencer on new BBC drama, The Living and the Dead". The Scotsman. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ^ a b c Walpole, James (13 May 2015). "Charlotte Spencer Talks Bypass". Mr Rumsey's Film Related Musings. Archived from the original on 14 January 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Bates, Scott (4 October 2019). "Far Out Meets: Charlotte Spencer, the British actress fighting her way to the top". Far Out.
- ^ Marshall, Charlotte (4 December 2013). "Introducing... Charlotte Spencer". Official London Theatre. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ^ "From Mary Poppins child star to Profumo femme fatale in Lloyd Webber's latest". Evening Standard. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- Lewis, Tim (1 December 2013). "Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies were misunderstood". The Observer. Retrieved 24 July 2016. - ^ "Charlotte Spencer On Being Ginger, NSFW Scenes + Angelina Ballerina (Yes, Really)". InStyle. 20 June 2016. Archived from the original on 1 September 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ^ "Interview with Charlotte Spencer for Glue". Channel 4. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ^ Mendoza, Monica (8 April 2015). "Benedict Cumberbatch secures sixth BAFTA TV nomination". Screen Daily. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (20 February 2015). "Stacey Farber To Star In 'Take It From Us', Charlotte Spencer In 'Broad Squad'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ^ "National Film Awards UK 2016 winners announced". National Film Awards. April 2016.
- ^ Power, Vicki (30 May 2015). "Christian Cooke and Charlotte Spencer on new BBC thriller Stonemouth". The Express. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ^ "British Academy Scotland Awards: Winners in 2015". BAFTA. 15 November 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ^ Debnath, Neela (28 June 2016). "The Living and the Dead: Charlotte Spencer says show harks back to 'traditional horror'". The Express. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ^ "Actress Charlotte Spencer gives us an insight into her new BBC1 series 'The Living And The Dead'". Fault. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ Gordon, Naomi (8 August 2019). "Sanditon's Charlotte Spencer defends sex scene and male nudity in Jane Austen remake". Harper's Bazaar.
- ^ Rosser, Michael (31 May 2016). "First NFTS-BBC Films 'Greenlight' project begins shoot". Screen Daily. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ N'Duka, Amanda (14 May 2019). "Lance Reddick Joins 'Faith Based'; Rapper YG Cast In 'Tuscaloosa'; 'Getaway' Horror Film Sets Cast". Deadline. Archived from the original on 18 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ Wollaston, Sam (12 June 2015). "Stonemouth review: 'visually fabulous, but lacks knuckle-chewing suspense'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ^ "BBC – Tom Hollander to star in Us, David Nicholls' adaptation of his bestselling novel for BBC One – Media Centre". Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- ^ "First Look images and further casting announced for upcoming BBC Drama The Gold". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre. Retrieved 17 January 2023.