Charlotte Riley

In 2004, Riley won the Sunday Times’ Playwriting Award for Shaking Cecilia, which she co-wrote with Tiffany Wood.[6][7] In 2011, she played Anna in Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of Anna of the Five Towns on BBC Radio 4.[8] She appeared in Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. She also appeared onstage at the Royal Court Theatre production of The Priory, by Michael Wynne.[9] She co-starred in London Has Fallen, the sequel to the 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen,[10] where she portrayed an MI6 agent Jacqueline Marshall.[11] She also portrayed Arabella Strange in the mini-series adaptation of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.[12]

In 2018, she got a lead role in the BBC drama Press,[13] which was cancelled after its first series. At Christmas 2019, Riley played the role of Lottie / Ghost of Christmas Present in the BBC mini-series, A Christmas Carol, based on the Charles Dickens novel of the same name.[14] She will appear in the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series The Peripheral.