April Pearson

At 35 years old, April Pearson has this physical status:

April Janet Pearson (born 23 January 1989) is an English actress best known for her appearance in the E4 teen drama series Skins as Michelle Richardson.

Early life

Pearson was born and raised in Bristol. She attended Colston Girls' School in Bristol's Montpelier district, where she was elected head girl and a member of the Bristol Old Vic Young Company in 2007. Both of her parents had worked in television production before, with her father being active in the British medical drama series Casualty.

Personal life

Pearson is involved in Channel 4's "Lost for Words" campaign, a series of advocacy services to get children to read, in which she reads aloud from Kasper in the Glitter by Philip Ridley. Although speaking out in favor of Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses collection, she is an avid lover of Spanish cinema and Pedro Almodóvar's work. She's based in Brighton. Pearson founded the Laboratory Theatre Company with film producer Jamie Patterson in 2014. The Laboratory Theatre is a performance company dedicated to mixing theatre and film. After meeting on the set of the Home for Christmas (2014), Pearson and Patterson developed a friendship. Pearson and Patterson were married in 2017. Is Michelle from Skins? Pearson has hosted a casual celebrity interview-based podcast since 2020. On July 6, the first episode was broadcast on Instagram; the second episode will be broadcast on July 6th. Bernadette Peters, Nicole Kidman, Julie Walters, and Judi Dench were among her idols. Pearson revealed on December 8, 2021, she was pregnant with her first child.

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Career

Pearson, a three-year-old boy, joined a theatre company in Bristol, becoming one of the company's founding members at three years old. She appeared in various productions with both her drama club and even non-at-school throughout her youth. Pearson made her television debut in 1998 with a small appearance in the British medical drama series Casualty. Pearson was a pupil at Colston's Girls' School in 2006, when she was cast in the television teenage-drama Skins. Jane Ripley and Adam Smith travelled to Colston's Girls' School to hold auditions, wherein Ripley asked Pearson whether she wanted to audition after attending her drama class. Pearson appeared in seven series, with seven of which Pearson appeared in. Pearson's performance was well received; the story was well-known; and Pearson attracted significant attention. She explained that it was the amusing fact of playing someone who is very different from her in person that attracted her to Richardson in Skins. Pearson said being recognized was strange, but then went on to be kind to everyone and hope they're watching the show." The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Gold Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series was given to Skins, and Pearson was nominated for the Golden Nymph Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. Pearson explored how she learned to cope with a set and how to act in the work world, adding: "I owe the position I am in now to Skins and I'm so proud and proud that it has done so well."

In a British medical drama series Casualty, Pearson appeared briefly as Karen Shevlin. In Jon Wright's comedy horror slasher film Tormented (2009), she made her debut in a sadistic schoolgirl Natasha Cummings' debut. Larissa Wilson, a Skins co-star, appeared alongside Alex Pettyfer, Tuppence Middleton, and Georgia King, and was reunited with her. "I don't want to pigeon-hole myself this early on," she said in an interview with The Evening Standard's Andy Barker. I love every genre."

Pearson reprised to theatre in Catherine Johnson's Suspension (2009) at the Bristol Old Vic. In his Guardian article, Michael Billington wrote, "You get a sense of buried love between James Lailey's guilt-ridden Gerry and [Pearson] as the bridling bride-to-be. All of the performances from director Heather Williams' largely Bristol-based cast are fine." "For Johnson, the cast and crew for Bristol Old Vic and Bristol, the show's principal actor," Metro called it "a fantastic success." "Down in the hotel Jemma's trembling nerves are tense, and the (very pretty) [Pearson] gives us all too familiar Big Day nerves. She has a natural sense of comedy timing and is a fantastic foil for Anita, her Sherman Tank of a mother, in overpowering Anita. In addition, she portrayed Callie, a kidnapped teenager, in Rachel Sternberg and Jemma Wayne's Negative Space (2009). Pearson's success was praised by the Evening Standard, who wrote: "The star is [Pearson], gamine, and effulgent as Callie. Pearson is 20 years old, but she is unsettlingly convincing as a teen not much older than half her age." Pearson returned to Casualty in 2011 to appear as Grace Fitch, but Will You Marry Me? (2011). Pearson co-starred in Jen Moss' dark comedy-drama short film My Brother's Keeper (Or How Not To Survive The Apocalypse), portraying Jess, who is looking after her well-meaning but dim-witted brother during a zombie apocalypse. At the Viscera Film Festival, Moss will be named Best Writer and Director Award later this year. Bloody Disgusting remarked that Alex Esmail and Pearson's relationship as Jess is both "touching and funny."

In 2013, she briefly appeared in Dates and rejoined Skins co-creator Bryan Elsley. She appeared on television shows Casualty and Comedy Feeds before playing a minor role in Giles Foster's television film Unknown Heart (2014). Pearson also appeared in "Gen in Circle of Truth," a short film directed by David Allain that explored some of the difficulties that people with multiple sclerosis face when deciding whether or not to disclose their diagnosis to their coworkers. When Shift.ms, a charity and social network for people with Multiple Sclerosis, contacted producer Jess Gormley, the film's inception came about. Ashley Thomas, Nathan McMullen, Lauren Socha, Simon Day, Justin Edwards, and Nicholas Burns appeared in Circle of Truth alongside Pearson. Pearson co-starred Ben Peel in Greg Zinger's romantic comedy short film The Engagement (2014), which explored the challenges of making marital commitment in April 2014. In Jamie Patterson's second feature-film Home for Christmas (2014), she portrayed Beth Prince, a young woman in search of her happiness ever after. The film was based on Cally Taylor's novel of the same name, and Lucy Griffiths, Karl Davies, Derren Nesbitt, and Shirley Jaffe co-starred Lucy Griffiths, Johann Davies, Shirley Jaffe. Pearson reunited with David Allain in the short film Working It Out, in which her character talks to other people with multiple sclerosis about their experiences with work. The Maccabees provided the soundtrack, and Pearson co-stars Gabriel Bisset-Smith and Preeya Kalidas alongside Gabriel Bisset-Smith and Preeya Kalidas.

In January 2015, Pearson appeared in "Greek Tragedy," a Wombats song in which Pearson plays an obsessive Wombats fan. Pearson appeared in Neil Jones' critically panned action film Age of Kill (2015) in the first half of 2015. Pearson appeared in Nick Gillespie's psychological thriller film Tank 432 (2015) the same year. Despite the fact that the film was critically panned, the cast was lauded. Emilie Black of Cinema Crazed praised Pearson's Annabella, while others wrote "It's important to see a female character not in need of saving, even though it's just one of the guys." "Many talented actors are wasted in the morass," Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter said. "Even the cast, a wholly forgotten" British talent from Rupert Evans to Michael Smiley and Skins, seemed to be a stab in the right direction," Ben Robins of The National Student wrote. "Trapping his cast in a small space is daring," Wilson wrote in his book "Fuck," but Gillespie hasn't given his six good actors, including Evans and Gordon Kennedy, much more than shouted variations on the word "fuck." Pearson and her co-stars received raves, as well as a host of others; "Pearson," meanwhile, pushes the role of the confident, daring, and oversexed third party to its limits – and it does so admirably. The dialogue is fast and furious, and the three actors work together to produce a highly watchable tale."

Pearson starred in Fractured, about a couple whose quiet getaway weekend goes awry, where she reunited with Home for Christmas's Karl Davies and director Jamie Patterson. Louisa Lytton, Jordan Metcalfe, and Calvin Dean were among Fractured's cast members. "Pearson and Davies are well suited to their roles, and they are portrayed convincingly in the loving couple being pursued," Love Horror, a British horror website. Pearson received the Best Actress Award from the British Horror Film Festival for her role in Fractured. Gemma appeared in Mdhamiri & Nkemi's short film Cuttings (2016), in which her character returns to her family in the aftermath of a recent death to discover buried family truths in an undiscovered archive of home video.

Pearson reunited with Patterson once more for Caught (2018), in which she plays Mrs. Blair alongside Cian Barry's Mr. Blair. Mr & Mrs Blair, a journalist couple, were welcomed into their idyllic village home by a journalist couple. Mickey Sumner, Ruben Crow, Regan Elizabeth Brown, Dave Mounfield, and Aaron Davis appear in the film. critics of Pearson's performance as Mrs. Blair have lauded her. William of All Horror praised Pearson's role as Mrs. Blair, with him stating, "[Pearson] deservingly but not silent" for her nearly wordless appearance but not silent appearance. With her eyes and grunts, she lets the world know that this skin-suit is barely missing some other life-form that is about to tear you apart, but she is unable to get these grating photographs from the couple." "...] Caught delivers a number of scary scenes, thanks to the central quartet's devoted performances," Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter said. Noel Murray of the Los Angeles Times praised the performances, saying that "Caught hits the traditional beats but not with an unusually strong cast and original characters." "The interlopers are a strange, disgusting pleasure, clearly dominating the film and their ineffectual hosts," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote about the cast in her review for The New York Times. "What cannot be ignored is Mrs. LePire's animalistic qualities," Bobby LePire of Film Threat said. Blair is a British writer. "[...] the acting complements the unnerving atmosphere perfectly [...]," he says later. "There's a lot of tension, with [Barry] and [Pearson] carrying the entire film on their backs, not to mention the rise of terror," Bradley Miska said of Barry and Pearson's performance. Pearson's characterisation, according to JoBlo.com's Mike Sprague, "[Pearson's] arc throughout the film is my favorite thing about the film, and I'm sure it will be yours as well." Both Barry and Pearson's Mr and Mrs. Blair's role as "played flawlessly" on the Lincoln Center film "played perfectly."

Pearson's next appearance in Corrie Greenop's horror thriller Dark Beacon (2017) was for the second time. Amy Wilcock embodied a fierce and tragic passion for Beth Gadbsy. "Pearson and Lynne Rodgers do an admirable job doing the bulk of the film on their own, not to mention child actor Kendra Mei [...]." "April Pearson is excellent in the lead role as Amy in a Scream movie," Jon Dickinson wrote. "When times get spooky, she is the voice of reason." "[Pearson] has emerged from a post-Skins hibernation with a strong and nuanced appearance, complementing Beth's spiraling psychosis," says April McIntyre of HeyUGuys. Pearson was named Best Actress from the American Horror Film Festival and the Upstate NY Horror Film Festival for her role in Dark Beacon.

In Edgar Wallace's The Case of the Frightened Lady, Pearson would portray Isla Crane. Pearson's appearance in The Case of the Frightened Lady was met with enthusiasm; Young Perspective's Vikki Stephenson said, "[Pearson] was an excellent performer who [...] culminated in an exciting and entertaining spectacle." Alison Brinkworth, a writer for Behind The Arras, described her as "new life", while Rebecca Lipkin described it as "charismatic" in her analysis of The Arbuturian, Pearson. Although Pearson lauded Pearson's success, critics praised Pearson's underwritten characterization of Isla Crane, Pearson's Isla Crane.

For the third time, she reunited with Skins co-creator Bryan Elsley, in which she appeared briefly as Polly in Kiss Me First. Pearson appeared in Patterson's critically acclaimed comedy-drama Tucked (2018), the estranged daughter of Derren Nesbitt's Jackie. Pearson co-wrote and starred in Patterson's independent comedy-drama film Tracked, in which a young couple try to salvage their dissatisfied marriage by interrailing around Europe together. The film premiered at the Raindance Film Festival, wherein Pearson and co-star Chris Willoughby's roles were lauded, as well as Edouard Fousset's cinematography. She appeared in One Year Later, a rom-com short film starring Simon Weir and Rhys-Teare Williams, in 2020. She was also one of the first to sign up for George Webster's British science fiction comedy Star Dogs, wherein she appeared in Cass Rio. Pearson appeared in Matthew Leutwyler and Anton Laines' Disconnected, a weekly, experimental drama film shot by the actors and produced remotely in the United States, India, United Kingdom, and Rwanda, although the country is still under quarantine orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chloe Shapley appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors in March 2021.

Eva is expected to appear in Adam Oldroyd's black comedy directorial debut Sideshow, alongside Anthony Stewart Head, Les Dennis, and Nathan Clarke. In addition, she will be reunited with director Jamie Patterson in God's Petting You and the psychological thriller The Kindred.

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