Charity Wakefield

Charity Wakefield Biography

Charity Wakefield (born September 1980) is an English actress.

Early life and education

Wakefield was born September 1980 in Sussex, England. At a couple of months old she moved with her mother, Caroline, to L'Ampolla in Catalonia, Spain. They returned to England when Wakefield was four. She has a half-sister, Olivia. Her maternal grandfather was actor James Hayter.

Wakefield went to Bexhill College, and studied acting at the Oxford School of Drama from 2000 to 2003. As well as acting, she plays the violin and has a strong soprano singing voice.

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, and also appeared in Casualty 1907.

Her theatre credits include Yesterday Was a Weird Day, a production about the 2005 London bombings, Constance in The Three Musketeers at the Bristol Old Vic, and Elaine in The Graduate, at the New Vic. Wakefield's performance as Susan in Baby with the Bathwater at the Old Red Lion Theatre was called "fabulous."

In 2008 she toured in a revival of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle at the Chichester Festival Theatre, as well as working on the BBC comedy pilot Freddi. She appeared in the Channel 4 drama Any Human Heart and played the lead in the British film noir Scar Tissue. In March 2012 she was cast in Mockingbird Lane, the re-imagining of The Munsters for NBC.

She recently appeared as Mary Boleyn in the 2015 BBC2 television series Wolf Hall. She also appeared in the NBC drama The Player with Philip Winchester and Wesley Snipes.

Selected credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	(Past Present Future) Imperfect	Beanie
2004	Hex	Lucy	Episode: "Life Goes On"
2006	Jane Eyre	Miss Temple	Scenes deleted
2007	Exitz	Billy
2007	Doctors	Carole Hinton	Episode: "Personal Services"
2008	Sense and Sensibility	Marianne Dashwood
	Fairy Tales	Billy Jean Brooke/Rapunzel	Episode: "Rapunzel"
	The Beachcombers		Short film
	Casualty 1907	Ethel Bennett
	Burlesque Fairy Tales	Grace
	Act of God	Laura
	The Wonderful World of Freddi Faroubb	Yasmin
	Post-It Love	Girl	Short film by Si & Ad
2009	Casualty 1909	Ethel Bennett
	Legally Mad	Brady Hamm	Pilot not picked up
	Day of the Flowers	Ailie
2010	Any Human Heart	Land Fothergill	Channel 4
2012	Midsomer Murders	Ruth Lambert
	Scar Tissue	Sam	British film noir
	Mockingbird Lane	Marilyn Munster	NBC
2013	Agatha Christie's Marple	Molly Kendall	Episode: "A Caribbean Mystery"
2015	Wolf Hall	Mary Boleyn
2015	The Player	Cassandra King	Main role, 9 episodes

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