Zoe Tapper
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Zoe Tapper is an English actress who first came to prominence playing Nell Gwynne in Richard Eyre's award-winning film Stage Beauty (2004).
Her other film roles include Gwendolyn in the award-winning Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), alongside Joan Plowright, and These Foolish Things (2006), alongside Anjelica Huston.
Starring roles on television include Mary Collins in A Harlot's Progress for Channel 4, Jane in Oliver Parker's The Private Life of Samuel Pepys (alongside Steve Coogan), Gemma in the first series of the Sky One UK television series Hex, Hermia in the 2005 BBC television adaptation/modernisation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Jenny Maple in the BBC miniseries 20,000 Streets Under the Sky. She is currently appearing in
On stage she has appeared in Epitaph For George Dillon in the West End, and Othello at Shakespeare's Globe.
[edit] Background
Tapper is from Bromley in Kent. She trained at the Academy Drama School and at Central School of Speech and Drama, from which she graduated in the spring of 2003, days before taking on her first film role.
