Clemency Burton-Hill

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Clemency Burton-Hill
Born Clemency Burton-Hill
March 17, 1981 (1981-03-17) (age 27)
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Other name(s) Clemmie Burton-Hill

Clemency Burton-Hill (born 17 March 1981 in London), is an English actress, journalist and violinist.[1]

Burton-Hill attended St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School, and went on to read English at Magdalene College, Cambridge, gaining a double first. She was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship in politics and government at Harvard University in 2006.

Since university, Burton-Hill has combined a career spanning acting, writing, music and political consultancy. Having worked as an actress since 1997 in numerous film and television productions including Hustle, Midsomer Murders, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, Supernova, Dream Team, Burton-Hill played the regular role of Sophie Montgomery in Party Animals, BBC 2's drama set in the Palace of Westminster. She also has a guest lead in The Palace for ITV, out in January 2008.

Burton-Hill is a contributing editor of The Spectator and is a former columnist for The Daily Telegraph. Her first journalistic role was as a staff fashion features writer at Vogue aged 22, and she has since written about politics, international development, books, music and the arts for such publications as The Economist, The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Times Literary Supplement and The Mail on Sunday. She has worked with a number of charities including the United Nations World Food Programme, Alive & Kicking, Dramatic Need, of which she is a Trustee, Advance Aid and Al-Kamandjati.

Burton-Hill, a former scholar at The Royal College of Music, where she was the recipient of the Hugh Bean Violin Prize, is a keen classical violinist and currently leads the Alize string quartet. In 2005 Burton-Hill co-founded the Aurora Orchestra, and is a trustee of the Choir of London and a member of its orchestra.

On 1 April 2007 she was a guest on the BBC Radio 3 interview programme, Private Passions.[2] She has also appeared on Question Time on BBC One on 17 May and on the BBC's Sunday AM programme, ITV's The Sunday Edition, Radio 5 Live with Eamonn Holmes, and Loose Women.

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