Sabrina Bartlett

Sabrina Lois Bartlett (born September 1991)^[1] is an English actress. She is known for her roles in the BBC One miniseries The Passing Bells (2014), the third series of the ITV drama Victoria (2019), and the first series of Knightfall (2017) on History, Bridgerton (2020) on Netflix, and The Larkins (2021), also on ITV.

Sabrina Bartlett
Born	Sabrina Lois Bartlett September 1991 (age 34) Fulham, London, England
Alma mater	Guildford School of Acting
Years active	2014–present

Early life and education

Bartlett was born in Fulham and grew up on Walham Grove. Her parents Stephen and Sharon are artists, and she has two sisters and a brother.^[2] Her grandfather was born in Calcutta.^[3] The family lived between London and Romney Marsh on the Kent coast.^[4][5]

Prior to acting, she took up ballet to help her coordination after a dyspraxia diagnosis and attended Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Hertfordshire.^[6][7] She switched to drama and went on to train at the Guildford School of Acting, graduating in 2013.^[8][9]

Career

Bartlett landed her first major role in The Passing Bells, a 2014 BBC One World War I television drama.^[10][8] She had a guest role in the Doctor Who series 8 episode "Robot of Sherwood".^[11] She played the recurring roles of Sophia and Keren Smith in Da Vinci's Demons^[12][13] and Poldark respectively.^[4]

In 2016, Bartlett appeared in the sixth season finale of the HBO series Game of Thrones, "The Winds of Winter" as a member of House Frey, then revealed to be Arya Stark in disguise.^[14] She starred as Princess Isabella in the first season of the History series Knightfall.^[15][16]

Bartlett was cast as Abigail Turner in the 2019 third season of Victoria.^[17] The following year, Bartlett appeared as Siena Rosso, an opera singer with a clandestine relationship with Jonathan Bailey's character Anthony Bridgerton in the Netflix historical fiction series Bridgerton.^[18][19]

In 2021, she was cast as Mariette in The Larkins, the eldest of the Larkins children, whom Catherine Zeta-Jones played in the previous adaptation.^[20] She revealed in 2022 that she would not be returning for the second series and her character was replaced by Joelle Rae.^[21] It was later revealed that Bartlett lodged a formal complaint against co-star Tok Stephen, but it was not upheld, leading to her departure.^[22]

Acting credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	The Crossing	Eileen	Short film
2015	Respite		Short film
2024	One Night in Bath	Lauren
TBA	Arsenic Lane	Stella Alfonsi
	F*ck Valentine's Day	TBA	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2014	Suspects	Hannah Stevenson	Episode: "Calling Card"	[23]
	Holby City	Gabriella 'Gabi' Mendoza	Episode: "The Spirit"	[24]
	Doctor Who	Quayle's Ward / Maid Marian	Episode: "Robot of Sherwood"	[11]
	The Passing Bells	Katie	5 episodes	[10][25]
2015	Midsomer Murders	Tina Tyler	Episode: "A Vintage Murder"	[26]
	Poldark	Keren Smith	3 episodes	[4]
	Da Vinci's Demons	Sophia	6 episodes	[12][13]
2016	Game of Thrones	Maiden Frey/Arya Stark (in disguise)	Episode: 'The Winds of Winter"	[12][14]
2017	Knightfall	Princess Isabella	10 episodes	[15]
	Versailles	Mathilde	Series 2; 3 episodes
2018	The Innocents	Lil	Episode: "Bubblegum & Bleach"	[27]
2019	Victoria	Abigail Turner	Regular	[17][14]
2020	Bridgerton	Siena Rosso	Series 1; 5 episodes	[28]
2021	The Larkins	Mariette Larkin	Series 1	[29]
2025	I, Jack Wright	Bella Horrell	Recurring role

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes	Ref.
2015	The Seagull	Nina Zarechnaya	Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
2016	Cyrano de Bergerac	Roxane	Southwark Playhouse
2019	While the Sun Shines	Elisabeth	Orange Tree Theatre		[30][31]

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Role	Notes	Ref.
2018	If You Wanna Love Somebody	Tom Odell	Girl		[32]

Audio dramas

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2016	Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures	Cora		[33]

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2022	The DioField Chronicle	Izelair Wigan	English version

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2015	NewFilmmakers Los Angeles	Best Performance, Drama	The Crossing	Won	[34]
2021	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Bridgerton	Nominated	[35]