Charity Wakefield
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| Born | Charity Wakefield 1981 Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2004-present |
Charity Wakefield (born 1981) is an English actress.
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[edit] Background
Wakefield was born in Sussex, England in 1981. She studied acting at the Oxford School of Drama from 2000 to 2003[1]. As well as acting, Wakefield plays the violin and has a strong soprano singing voice.
[edit] Career
Wakefield made her screen debut, in 2004, in (Past Present Future) Imperfect. She starred in a BBC1 production of Rapunzel, in which Rapunzel is a young tennis star. [2] Wakefield will also appear in Casualty 1907.[3]
Her theatre credits include Yesterday Was a Weird Day, a production about the London, Constance in The Three Musketeers at the Bristol Old Vic, and Elaine in The Graduate, at the New Vic. Wakefield's performances as Susan in Baby with the Bathwater at the Old Red Lion Theatre was called "fabulous."[4]
In 2008 she will star in a revival of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
[edit] Select Credits
| Year | Format | Title | Role | Other notes |
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| 2004 | Feature film | (Past Present Future) Imperfect | Beanie | |
| TV series | Hex | Lucy | Episode Life Goes On | |
| 2006 | Miniseries | Jane Eyre | Miss Temple | |
| 2007 | Feature film | Exitz | Billy | |
| Act of God | Laura | |||
| The Wonderful World of Freddi Faroubb | Yasmin | |||
| TV series | Doctors | Carole Hinton | Episode Personal Services | |
| 2008 | Miniseries | Sense and Sensibility | Marianne Dashwood | |
| Fairy Tales | Billy Jean Brooke/Rapunzel | Episode "Rapunzel" | ||
| TV Series | Casualty 1907 | Ethel Bennett | ||
| Feature film | Burlesque Fairy Tales | Grace |
[edit] References
- ^ (5 September 2005) Charity Wakefield, The Stage
- ^ (7 July 2007) Lee Ingleby, Charity Wakefield and Shaun Williamson let down their hair in BBC One's Rapunzel, BBC
- ^ (8 August 2007) More historical medical crises ... Casualty 1907 comes to BBC One, BBC
- ^ Whitelaw, Emma Laugh - Then thank your lucky stars you weren't born a Dingleberry, Indie London
