Charlotte Hope

Charlotte Hope was born in Salisbury on October 15, 1991. Her father is a barrister who used to be a jockey and her mother worked in PR before becoming housewife. At 18, she went to study French and Spanish at Oxford University, where she acted in a lot of university theatre. Whilst there, she attended an open casting to play the part of Jane Birkin in a French film called Serge Gainsbourg: Vie Heroique. Although she didn't get the role, it gave the volition to pursue acting as a career. She wrote to as many agents as she could find and invited them to her university plays. One came and signed her and she started working. Initially, she had small roles in British television and film, including The Theory of Everything (2014), Les Misérables (2012) and The Invisible Woman (2013), and also the triumvirate of medical procedural dramas: Holby City (1999), Casualty (1986) and Doctors (2000). In 2013, she was cast in Game of Thrones (2011) in the role of Ramsay Bolton's sadistic lover, Myranda. The role was originally written to appear in one episode but ended up being extended over three seasons. She has worked considerably in theatre, twice with Ed Harris in Scott Elliott's productions of Buried Child and Good for Otto, and also at the Liverpool Everyman in Nick Bagnall's Midsummer NIght's Dream and Rupert Goold's Albion at the Almeida Theatre, written my Mike Bartlett. In 2016 she appeared in British films, A United Kingdom (2016) and Allied (2016). In 2017, she had a supporting role opposite Richard Gere in Jon Avnet's State of Mind (2017), and also co-starred in horror film, The Nun (2018) as Sister Victoria. In 2018, she was cast as Catherine of Aragon in the new Starz / New Pictures series The Spanish Princess (2019), a follow-on from cult hits, The White Princess (2017) and The White Queen (2013). She lives in South London with Ria Zmitrowicz and Philippa Coulthard.