Sophie Rundle

At 35 years old, Sophie Rundle has this physical status:

Sophie Rundle (born 21 April 1988) is an English actress.

She is best known for portraying Ada Shelby in the BBC One historical crime drama television series Peaky Blinders, Ann Walker in BBC One and HBO's period drama Gentleman Jack, Vicky Budd in the BBC television series Bodyguard, code-breaker Lucy in the ITV drama series The Bletchley Circle and Labia in the British/American television sitcom Episodes.

She also plays Alice in Sky One's 2017 drama Jamestown.

Early life

Rundle was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. She has two brothers. She attended Bournemouth School for Girls. In 2011, Rundle graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree in Acting.

Personal life

Rundle is engaged to actor Matt Stokoe, whom she met on the set of Jamestown. They have a son born in 2021.

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Career

Rundle began her acting career in the British horror comedy film Small Town Folk in 2007. Warwick Davis was her co-star in 2006. She appeared in Titanic, an ITV four-part television miniseries set in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Labia appeared in the British/American television sitcom Episodes opposite Matt LeBlanc and Stephen Mangan, which aired on Showtime and BBC Two later this year.

Rundle debuted in Great Expectations directed by Mike Newell in 2012. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United Kingdom on November 30.

In the two-part episode Arthur's Bane of the BBC television series Merlin's final season, Rundle also appeared Sefa.

She appeared in the ITV mystery drama The Bletchley Circle, about four women who investigate a string of murders, ended on January 27, 2014. Rundle spoke about Rundle's demise: Rundle said: 'The series's cancellations have been questioned.'

Ada Shelby appears in the BBC Two period crime drama series Peaky Blinders, based on the Shelby family's memoirs, and her many brothers, sisters, and relatives make up the ferocious family of all interwar Birmingham. Rundle explained that mastering the Brummie accent during recording had hampered at first because it is not seen much on television, but she did a good job with it after a set visit to Birmingham. Rundle also talked to Radio Times in an interview about her role in the series: Rundle said: "She's casting in the series."

Fiona Griffiths, a young detective constable, was the lead character in the Sky Living two-part crime series Talking to the Dead, based on Harry Bingham's eponymous book. It was inspired by Golden Globe Award-nominee Gwyneth Hughes. Rundle did some research on Cotard's Syndrome in order to portray Griffiths accurately. "Well, yes, she admits that her character in the series is a little "loopy." Part of the show's mystery is trying to figure out what is going on with her. You know that there is a history of abuse in the area, and that you're trying to find out how to cope. It's being delivered in small bites. She has a history of mental disorders, which gives her an affinity with the deceased."

In the seventh episode of the BBC medical period drama series Call the Midwife, Pamela Saint, a young mother with mental illness after giving her child, appeared in Rundle's seventh episode. Kirsten McAskill, a rookie policewoman who arrests Lewis (played by Adam Long) for speeding and is then pursued by his accomplice in a new kidnapping, Tommy, a convicted drug criminal, homing her. Rundle speculated that she [Kirsten], "is so young and excited about her work, it's a real surprise when something happens," says Rundle. Sally Wainwright, which stars Sarah Lancashire and Steve Pemberton, premiered on April 29, 2014.

Rundle was an invited guest on Saturday Kitchen, hosted by James Martin on October 4, 2014.

In Helen Edmundson's BBC adaptation of J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls, Eva Smith/Daisy Renton appeared in J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls, which also starred David Thewlis in the title role, Ken Stott and Miranda Richardson. Aisling Walsh produced the drama, which was broadcast on BBC One on September 13, 2015. Rundle appeared as Jenny in the Channel 4 sitcom Not Safe for Work, alongside Zawe Ashton, Tom Weston-Jones, Samuel Barnett, Sacha Dhawan, and Anastasia Hille. Playwright D. C. Moore wrote the series and wrote it, and it was broadcast on June 30, 2015.

In BBC's 20-part Dickensian, a reworking of an ensemble of characters created by Charles Dickens that aired on BBC One on December 26, 2015.

Rundle appeared in the ITV's six-part series Brief Encounters, which is loosely based on Gold Group International CEO, Jacqueline Gold's 1995 memoir, Good Vibrations. In an interview with i, Rundle discussed her opinion of her character in the series (set in the 1980s), saying she would be restless and excited about her sexuality if she were a teenager during the 1980s.

Alice Kett, one of the'maids to make wives" who sailed 3,700 miles across the Atlantic to marry a stranger in the New World, appeared in Sky 1's drama Jamestown. In an interview with i, Rundle's interest in her role in the series was her ability to portray women of courage and dynamism. Rundle argued that her character in the series is the sort of person the audience wants to see, as shown in an interview with the Irish Examiner.

Rundle appeared in Jed Mercurio's six-part thriller Bodyguard, along with Keeley Hawes and Gina McKee, which was broadcast on BBC One. The series tells the fictional tale of a war soldier now serving as a Specialist Protection Officer for London's Metropolitan Police Department's Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch (RaSP).

In the joint production between BBC One and HBO biographical drama series about a real-life lesbian couple living in the North of England in the nineteenth century, named Gentleman Jack, alongside Suranne Jones and Timothy West, portrayed wealthy heiress Ann Walker. Rundle, Sally Wainwright, who has worked with Rundle in Happy Valley, said she was used to Wainwright's writing and wanted to be involved before being sent an email about the opportunity to be cast in the series and was enthused after reading the scripts. Rundle said she has to engage her feelings and emotions in order to fit those of Ann Walker.

Princess Diana was depicted in an episode of the Sky Arts' Urban Myths series in 2019, with David Avery as Freddie Mercury and Mathew Baynton.

Rundle appeared in BBC One's The Nest, a five-part psychological drama about a husband and wife who discovers an 18-year-old woman who promises to be their surrogate after years of being looking for a child. Jean Sullivan appeared in Netflix's The Midnight Sky, also playing Jean Sullivan. She appeared in the film Rose as the titular character with her husband Matt Stokoe, who also wrote it.

Rundle will appear in the forthcoming Alibi political thriller The Diplomat as Laura Simmonds, a British diplomat determined to safeguard British nationals from being wounded in a series of conflicts in Barcelona.

Rundle performed Bunty Mainwaring in Stephen Unwin's production of No.l Coward's The Vortex at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, in February 2013.

Lucia Koss played Lucia Kos in a new play called 3 Winters by London-based Croatian playwright Tena tiviyia, about the Kos family and its history, which occurred at three crucial times in Croatian history. Howard Davies, a National Theatre actor, produces the performance.

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