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Charlotte Frances Riley (born 29 December 1981) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Sarah Hurst in Easy Virtue (2008) and as Catherine Earnshaw in ITV's adaptation of Wuthering Heights (2009).
Early life and education
Riley was born in Grindon, County Durham. She was brought up in County Durham and attended Teesside High School from the age of 9 until 18. She attended St Cuthbert's Society, Durham from 2000 to 2003, performing with the sketch comedy group, the Durham Revue and in plays and musicals and graduating with a degree in English and Linguistics; she also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 2005 to 2007.
Career
In 2004, Riley won the Sunday Times' Playwriting Award for Shaking Cecilia, which she co-wrote with Tiffany Wood. In 2011, she played Anna in Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Anna of the Five Towns on BBC Radio 4. She appeared in Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. She also appeared onstage at the Royal Court Theatre production of The Priory, by Michael Wynne. She co-starred in London Has Fallen, the sequel to the 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen, where she portrayed an MI6 agent Jacqueline Marshall. She also portrayed Arabella Strange in the mini-series adaptation of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. In 2018, she got a lead role in the BBC drama Press, which was cancelled after its first series. In 2019, Riley played the role of Lottie / Ghost of Christmas Present in the BBC mini-series A Christmas Carol, based on the Charles Dickens novella of the same name. She appeared in the Amazon Prime Video series The Peripheral.
Personal life
In 2008, Riley and Tom Hardy met while playing fictional lovers, Cathy and Heathcliff on the set of Wuthering Heights. In an interview Hardy said that although they became good friends while filming Wuthering Heights and The Take, they only got together later after filming the movie Warrior in 2009. Around the summer of 2010, Hardy proposed to Riley. On July 4, 2014, the couple married in an intimate ceremony at Chateau de Roussan, attended by family and friends including Hardy's son, Louis Thomas, from his previous relationship with Rachael Speed. Riley and Hardy expanded their blended family first with a son in October 2015 and then another son in December 2018.
Filmography
References
External links
Media related to Charlotte Riley at Wikimedia Commons
Charlotte Riley at IMDb
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- Edge of Tomorrow (film)
- Peaky Blinders
- In the Heart of the Sea (film)
- Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
- Pride & Prejudice (film 2005)
- Charlotte Riley
- The Take (TV series)
- Tom Hardy
- Peaky Blinders (TV series)
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- The Peripheral (TV series)
- A Christmas Carol (TV series)
- Wuthering Heights (2009 TV serial)
- World Without End (miniseries)
- List of Peaky Blinders characters