Sophia Myles

Sophia Myles
Myles at the Berlinale film festival, 2007
Born	Sophia Jane Myles (1980-03-18) 18 March 1980 London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present
Partner(s)	Brent Thomas Funston

Sophia Jane Myles^[1] (/səˈfaɪ.ə/;^[2] born 18 March 1980) is an English film and television actress.

Early life

Myles was born in London. Her mother, Jane (née Allan), works in educational publishing, and her father, Peter R. Myles, is a retired Church of England vicar in Isleworth, West London.^[3] Her maternal grandmother was Russian,^[4] and she refers to herself as "half-Welsh, half-Russian".^[5]

Myles grew up in Notting Hill, where her father served at the Church of St. George the Martyr, and attended Fox Primary School. At the age of eleven, Myles moved with her family to Isleworth and attended the Green School. Following success at her A-levels, she had been planning to accept a conditional place to study philosophy at Cambridge, but chose to pursue an acting career after being spotted by Julian Fellowes in a school play.^[4]

Career

Since 1996, Myles has appeared in a number of American and British films and television productions. In 2001, she got a small role alongside Johnny Depp as his on-screen wife, Victoria Abberline, in the thriller film From Hell. She had a supporting role in the 2003 film Underworld and its sequel Underworld: Evolution (in a brief flashback scene). In 2003, she played the schoolgirl lead in the thriller Out of Bounds and she also played Lady Penelope in the Thunderbirds. In 2006, Myles co-starred with actor James Franco in the romantic drama Tristan and Isolde, playing the role of Isolde.

Myles appeared as Madame de Pompadour in a 2006 episode of Doctor Who, "The Girl in the Fireplace"; the episode was nominated for a Nebula Award and won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.^[6] She co-starred opposite Max Minghella, playing his love interest in 2006's quirky comedy film Art School Confidential. Also in 2006, Myles appeared in a BBC TV adaptation of Dracula; she played Lucy Westenra alongside Marc Warren, David Suchet and Dan Stevens. As of 2007, she filmed Outlander with James Caviezel and Jack Huston, playing the role of Freya.^[7]

She was cast in the CBS supernatural television drama, Moonlight. She has received Best Actress in 2007 for her role in Hallam Foe from the British Independent Film Award committee as well as the BAFTA Scotland Award. Her series, Moonlight, won for Best New Drama in the 2007 People's Choice Awards.

In 2010 Myles joined Spooks, a BBC series about a counter-terrorism unit in MI5, for its ninth series playing Beth Bailey alongside fellow newcomer Max Brown.^[8]

In 2013, Myles was cast in a major supporting role in Transformers: Age of Extinction which is due for release in 2014.^[9]

Personal life

In 2004, Myles was in a relationship with actor Charles Dance, who is 34 years her senior, whom she met while working on The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.^[4]

From 2005 to 2007, she dated Scottish actor David Tennant,^{[citation needed]} with whom she had acted in Foyle's War and the Doctor Who episode "The Girl in the Fireplace".^[10]

Filmography

Sophia Myles at Berlinale, 2007

References and notes

External links

• Sophia Myles at the Internet Movie Database
• Simply Sophia Myles - The Official Fansite