Perdita Weeks
| Perdita Weeks | |
|---|---|
| Born | Perdita Rose Annunziata Weeks[1] 25 December 1985 Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Parent(s) | Robin and Susan Weeks |
Perdita Rose Annunziata Weeks (born 25 December 1985) is a British actress.
Life and career
Perdita was born in South Glamorgan, educated at Roedean School and studied art history at the Courtauld Institute. She is the younger sister of Honeysuckle Weeks and the older sister of Rollo Weeks.[2]
Acting career
She portrayed Mary Boleyn (King Henry VIII's sister-in-law) in the Showtime drama The Tudors (2007). In 2008 she appeared as Lydia Bennet in the ITV series Lost In Austen. She played a murdering teen in the Death and Dreams episode of Midsomer Murders in 2003.
She has worked on productions such as Stig of the Dump (2002), Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004), and Miss Potter (2006) (but was cut from the latter) and played the role of Kitten (daughter of a rock star) in an episode of Lewis—"Counter Culture Blues" (2009). In 2007 she appeared in the radio comedy Bleak Expectations. In 2011 she appeared in the TV miniseries The Promise.
She is the sister of actors Honeysuckle Weeks, to whom she bears a strong resemblance, and Rollo Weeks; she co-starred with the former in Goggle Eyes (1993) and Catherine Cookson's The Rag Nymph (1997), in which she played the younger version of her sister's character.[3] She stars also in the 2010 Horror film Prowl. [4]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Goggle-Eyes | Judith Killan | TV mini-series | |
| 1995 | Loving | Moira | TV film | |
| 1995 | The Shadowy Third | Dottie | TV film | |
| 1996 | The Cold Light of Day | Anna Tatour | ||
| 1996 | Robert Rylands' Last Journey | Sue | ||
| 1996 | Hamlet | Second Player | ||
| 1997 | Rag Nymph | Young Millie | 2 episodes: 'episode 1.1', 'episode 1.2' | |
| 1997 | Spice World | Evie | ||
| 2000 | The Prince and the Pauper | Lady Jane Grey | ||
| 2002 | Stig of the Dump | Lou | TV series | |
| 2003 | Midsomer Murders | Hannah Moore | 1 episode 'Death and Dreams' | |
| 2004 | Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking | Roberta Massingham | TV film | |
| 2007–2008 | The Tudors | Mary Boleyn | Recurring role | |
| 2008 | Lost in Austen | Lydia Bennet | TV mini-series | |
| 2009–2009 | Four Seasons | Imogen Combe | TV mini-series | |
| 2009 | Junction | Short | ||
| 2009 | Lewis | Kitten | 1 episode: 'Counter Culture Blues' | |
| 2010 | Prowl | Fiona | ||
| 2010–2011 | The Promise | Eliza Meyer | TV mini-series | |
| 2011 | Great Expectations | Clara Pocket | TV mini-series | |
| 2012 | Titanic | Lady Georgiana Grex | TV mini-series | |
| 2013 | Flight of the Storks | Sarah Gabbor | TV mini-series | |
| 2013 | The Invisible Woman | Maria Ternan | Feature Film | |
| 2014 | As Above, So Below | Scarlet Marlowe | Feature Film | |
| 2014 | The Great Fire | Elizabeth Pepys | TV mini-series | |
| 2015 | The Musketeers | Louise | Episode 2.7 "A Marriage of Inconvenience" | |
| 2016 | Rebellion | Vanessa Hammond | TV mini-series |
References
- ↑ Richard Barber (16 March 2012) My Titanic career move. dailymail.co.uk
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ The Honeysuckle Weeks Fansite – Perdita Weeks Page. Honeysuckleweeks.co.uk. Retrieved on 13 March 2013.
- ↑ International One-Sheet: After Dark Originals: Prowl. Dreadcentral.com (21 April 2010). Retrieved on 13 March 2013.
External links
- Use dmy dates from March 2013
- Articles with hCards
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art
- British film actresses
- British radio actresses
- British television actresses
- People educated at Roedean School, England
- Actors from Cardiff
- British child actresses
- 20th-century British actresses
- 21st-century British actresses
