Louise Brealey
Born: 1979-03-27 in Bozeat, Northamptonshire, England
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2024
- Chuck Chuck Baby as Helen
2023
- Lockwood & Co. as Pamela Joplin
- Such Brave Girls as Deb
2022
- Deep Clean as Maddie
- Brian and Charles as Hazel
2021
- Limbo as Hannah Peyton
- Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day as Self / Narrator (voice)
- Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel as Self
2020
- Jamie as Mum
2019
- The Widow as Beatrix
2018
- A Discovery of Witches as Gillian Chamberlain
- In Wonderland as Alice
2016
- Sherlock: The Abominable Bride as Molly Hooper
2015
- Victor Frankenstein as Sexy Society Girl
- Containment as Sally
- Birthday as Natasha
2013
- Shetland as Isobel Jameson
- Father Brown as Eleanor Knight
- Delicious as Stella
- Sherlock: Many Happy Returns as Molly Hooper
2012
- Ripper Street as Dr. Amelia Frayn
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Hairdresser
2011
- Death in Paradise as Donna Harman
2010
- Sherlock as Molly Hooper
2007
- I Want You as Girl
2006
- Mayo as Scene-of-Crime Officer Harriet 'Anorak' Tate
1999
- The Blair Witch Phenomenon as Self
1986
- Casualty as Roxanne Bird