Sophie Rundle

Sophie Rundle is an English actress.

Date of birth

She was born on 21 April 1988.

Family

She was born to Fiona and Michael Rundle, she also has two brothers James and Henry.

Education

Rundle attended the Bournemouth School for Girls before going on to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she graduated in 2011 with a BA in Acting.

Love life

Sophie Rundle is engaged to actor Matt Stokoe, whom she met on the set of Jamestown.

Net worth

Not yet established.

Career

On graduation, she appeared in the period drama Garrow's Law (2009) and was part of the huge cast recreating the fate of the passenger liner Titanic (2012), which aired on the 100th anniversary of the disaster.

Indeed most of her appearances have been in dramas set in bygone days, from the 17th-century Jamestown (2017), the post-war The Bletchley Circle (2012) and Call the Midwife (2012), and the 1920s gangster saga Peaky Blinders (2013).

She had contemporary roles in the sitcom Not Safe for Work (2015) and played the brave young PC Kirsten McAskill in Happy Valley (2014). On stage, she has also gone back to the 1920s in Noel Coward's 'The Vortex' at the Rose, Kingston and on film to the nineteenth century with Great Expectations (2012).

In 2015, she joined another huge cast playing the pre-'Bleak House' Lady Dedlock in Dickensian (2015), a mash-up of various characters from books by Charles Dickens in a fictional interaction. In 2018 she will be seen in the series Bodyguard (2018).

It was announced on 26 April 2018, that Rundle would portray wealthy heiress Ann Walker, 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 19th century, titled Gentleman Jack, alongside Suranne Jones and Timothy West.

In 2019, Rundle portrayed Princess Diana in an episode of the Sky Arts' Urban Myths series, with David Avery as Freddie Mercury and Mathew Baynton as Kenny Everett.

In 2020, Rundle starred alongside Martin Compston in BBC One show, The Nest, a five-part psychological drama about a husband and wife who meet an 18-year-old girl who agrees to be their surrogate after years of their trying for a baby. In the same year, she played the role of Jean in The Midnight Sky film.