Charlotte Riley

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).^[1]

Charlotte Riley
Riley in 2014
Born	Charlotte Frances Riley (1981-12-29) 29 December 1981 (age 42) Grindon, County Durham, England
Education	Teesside High School
Alma mater	St Cuthbert's Society, Durham (BA) London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2007–present
Spouse	Tom Hardy ​ (m. 2014)​
Children	2
Relatives	Chips Hardy (father-in-law)

Early life and education

Riley was born in Grindon, County Durham.^[2] She was brought up in County Durham and attended Teesside High School from the age of 9 until 18.^[3] She attended St Cuthbert's Society, Durham from 2000 to 2003, performing with the sketch comedy group, the Durham Revue^[4] 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.^[5]

Career

In 2004, Riley won the Sunday Times' Playwriting Award for Shaking Cecilia, which she co-wrote with Tiffany Wood.^[6][7] In 2011, she played Anna in Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Anna of the Five Towns on BBC Radio 4.^[8] 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.^[9] She co-starred in London Has Fallen, the sequel to the 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen,^[10] where she portrayed an MI6 agent Jacqueline Marshall.^[11] She also portrayed Arabella Strange in the mini-series adaptation of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.^[12] In 2018, she got a lead role in the BBC drama Press,^[13] 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.^[14] She appeared in the Amazon Prime Video series The Peripheral.^[15]

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.^[16]

Filmography

Year	Name	Role	Notes
2007	Grownups	Chloe	Episode: "Send"
	Holby City	Tanya Cusan	Episode: "Someone to Watch Over Me"
2008	Survey No. 257	Emma	Short film
	Inspector George Gently	Carmel O'Shaughnessy	Episode: "The Burning Man"
	Easy Virtue	Sarah Hurst
2009	Wuthering Heights	Catherine Earnshaw	Television film
	The Take	Maggie Summers	4 episodes
	Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen	Peggy Lytton	Television film
	Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side	Margot Bence	Television film
2010	Foyle's War	Mandy Dean	Episode: "Killing Time"
2010–2011	DCI Banks	Lucy Payne	3 episodes
2012	The Town	Alice	3 episodes
	World Without End	Caris	8 episodes Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television
	Entity	Kate Hansen
2014	Edge of Tomorrow	Nance	[17]
2014, 2017	Peaky Blinders	May Fitz Carleton	Series 2 and 4
2015	In the Heart of the Sea	Peggy Gardner Chase
	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Arabella
2016	London Has Fallen	MI6 Agent Jacquelin "Jax" Marshall	[18]
	Close to the Enemy	Rachel Lombard	BBC2 TV miniseries written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff
	Dark Heart	Juliette Wagstaffe	TV series
2017	King Charles III	Kate	Television film
2018	Swimming with Men	Swimming Coach
	Press	Holly Evans	Miniseries
	Trust	Robina Lund	Miniseries
2019	A Christmas Carol	Lottie/Ghost of Christmas Present	Miniseries
2022	The Peripheral	Aelita

References

1. Charlotte Riley Archived 25 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Screen Daily (10 July 2008)
2. Profile Archived 13 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine, gazettelive.co.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
3. Desira, Joanna. "Charlotte Riley becomes star of stage and screen" Archived 13 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Evening Gazette, 3 November 2008.
4. Armstrong, Neil (30 May 2015). "Charlotte Riley: 'I really was only joking but Tom Cruise thought I was serious.'". The Daily Telegraph.
5. Charlotte Riley profile Archived 17 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine, lamda.org.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
6. Hewison, Robert.Student Drama Archived 30 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine, The Sunday Times (18 April 2004)
7. Barker, Andy. New HeightsArchived 27 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Evening Standard (4 December 2008)
8. "Anna of the Five Towns".
9. Review of The Priory Archived 1 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine, guardian.co.uk, 27 November 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
10. Rosser, Michael (3 November 2014). "London Has Fallen begins filming". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
11. Goldberg, Matt (8 May 2015). "First London Has Fallen Poster Is Already Hating British Landmarks". Collider. Archived from the original on 10 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
12. Tartaglione, Nancy (25 October 2013). "Eddie Marsan To Topline 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' For BBC One/BBC America". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
13. "David Suchet, Charlotte Riley and Ben Chaplin to star as newspaper bosses in new BBC1 drama from Doctor Foster writer". Radio Times.
14. "BBC One – A Christmas Carol, Series 1, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
15. Petski, Denise (2 June 2021). "'The Peripheral': Louis Herthum, Chris Coy, Melinda Page Hamilton Among 5 Cast In Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy's Amazon Series". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
16. "Who Is Tom Hardy's Wife? All About Actress Charlotte Riley". Peoplemag. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
17. "Charlotte Riley Joins Tom Cruise In All You Need Is Kill". CinemaBlend.com. 24 August 2012. Archived from the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
18. Najafi, Babak (4 March 2016). "London Has Fallen". Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2014.

External links

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