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Birthday: Mar 27, 1979
Place of Birth: Bozeat, Northamptonshire, England

Louise Brealey

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
Movie Cast Year
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns Molly Hooper 2013
In Wonderland Alice 2018
Brian and Charles Hazel 2022
Delicious Stella 2013
Victor Frankenstein Sexy Society Girl 2015
Birthday Natasha 2015
Chuck Chuck Baby Helen 2024
Containment Sally 2015
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride Molly Hooper 2016
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Hairdresser 2012
I Want You Girl 2007
Jamie Mum 2020
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day Self / Narrator (voice) 2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel Self 2021
Limbo Hannah Peyton 2021
Madfabulous 1970
Deep Clean Maddie 2022
Series Cast Year
Death in Paradise Donna Harman 2011
A Discovery of Witches Gillian Chamberlain 2018
Mayo Scene-of-Crime Officer Harriet 'Anorak' Tate 2006
Sherlock Molly Hooper 2010
Father Brown Eleanor Knight 2013
The Widow Beatrix 2019
Clique Jude McDermid 2017
Ripper Street Dr. Amelia Frayn 2012
Casualty Roxanne Bird 1986
Back Cass 2017
Such Brave Girls Deb 2023
Sherlock Self 2010
Lockwood & Co. Pamela Joplin 2023
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