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Louise Brealey

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46 Years Old

Louise Brealey (born 27 March 1979) is an English actress, writer and journalist. She played Molly Hooper in Sherlock (2010–), Cass in Back (2017), Scottish professor Jude McDermid in Clique (2017), Gillian Chamberlain in A Discovery of Witches (2018) and Donna Harman in Death in Paradise (2020). She made her TV debut as Nurse Roxanne Bird in two series of BBC drama Casualty (2002–2004) before playing Judy Smallweed in Bleak House (2005). Brealey plays pathologist Molly Hooper in all four series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's television drama, Sherlock. She has also made her name as an accomplished stage actress. Her stage debut was at London's Royal Court in 2001 as 14-year-old Sophie in Max Stafford-Clark's production of Judy Upton's Sliding With Suzanne. She portrayed child prodigy Thomasina in the Bristol Old Vic production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 2005. In 2011, she was the short-frocked daughter of Julian Barratt and Doon Mackichan at the Young Vic in Richard Jones's Government Inspector. She next played three lead roles – Cassandra, Andromache and Helen of Troy – in Caroline Bird's sold-out production of The Trojan Women at London's Gate Theatre. In February 2014, she starred as Julie in August Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. She won Best Actress at the Manchester Theatre Awards for her role as Marianne in Constellations, directed by Michael Longhurst and played the lead alongside Anne Marie Duff in Marianne Elliott's Husbands and Sons at the National Theatre. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Louise Brealey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born

Bozeat, Northamptonshire, England on 27th March 1979

All Credits

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Death in Paradise
Donna Harman
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Father Brown
Eleanor Knight
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Sherlock
Molly Hooper
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A Discovery of Witches
Gillian Chamberlain
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Casualty
Roxanne Bird
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Ripper Street
Dr. Amelia Frayn
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Lockwood & Co.
Pamela Joplin
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The Widow
Beatrix
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Such Brave Girls
Deb
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Clique
Jude McDermid
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Back
Cass
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Mayo
Scene-of-Crime Officer Harriet 'Anorak' Tate
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Hairdresser
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
Molly Hooper
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Victor Frankenstein
Sexy Society Girl
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Containment
Sally
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Delicious
Stella
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Brian and Charles
Hazel
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Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Molly Hooper
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Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
Self / Narrator (voice)
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Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Self
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Birthday
Natasha
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Chuck Chuck Baby
Helen
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Jamie
Mum
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Limbo
Hannah Peyton
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Madfabulous
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I Want You
Girl
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The Blair Witch Phenomenon
Self
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In Wonderland
Alice
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Deep Clean
Maddie