WHO IS? Sophie Cookson

With Sophie, 29, currently playing the title role in The Trial Of Christine Keeler (9pm, BBC1), we take a look at the young actress’s life and career so far…

Born: She was born on May 15, 1990 in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, and later moved to Suffolk.

Education: Sophie was involved in singing and musical theatre since childhood, and toured Japan as part of a theatre company. However, she quit the stage to study art history and Arabic at the University of Edinburgh, but soon dropped out to pursue an acting career. She attended the Oxford School of Drama for three years, graduating in 2013.

Early career: While in her final year at drama school, she was cast as Grace Mohune in the Sky miniseries Moonfleet. The following year, Sophie appeared in a German TV adaptation of the Rosamunde Pilcher

novel Unknown Heart; also in 2014, she

landed her first big-screen role, in the spy

spoof Kingsman: The Secret Service. Branching out: Other appearances have come in the fantasy film The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016), Netflix series Gypsy (2017), horror The Crucifixion (2017), Kingsman sequel The Golden Circle (2017) and spy drama Red Joan (2018), as a younger version of Judi

Dench’s character. In 2018, she also received acclaim for her performance as Dottie in the Trafalgar Studios production of the play Killer Joe, opposite Orlando Bloom.