Antonia Campbell-Hughes

Antonia Campbell-Hughes (born 7 September 1982) is an actress, writer, director and former fashion designer from Northern Ireland. She is best known for playing Natascha Kampusch in 3096 Days, Marie-Antoinette in Dangerous Liaisons and the title role in Cordelia. She first gained notability as a fashion designer while in her teens. After an early career in comedy, she moved on to more serious acting roles, alongside writing for the screen. Her debut feature film as director, the thriller It Is In Us All, was released in 2022. Early life Campbell-Hughes was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, living there until the age of two. Until the age of 16 she would move between the United States, Switzerland, Germany, and England. After experimenting with short film, she went to art school in Dublin, and during that time, as a teenager, she started her own fashion label. Her clothing line would sell internationally under her own name, and a diffusion line for high street store Topshop. Television Her first role was in Jack Dee's sitcom Lead Balloon, which ran for four series, where she played his daughter. Her early career was mostly in comedy, with roles in a variety of comedy shows on British television, alongside Jennifer Saunders and Alex Macqueen, in Sharon Horgan and Stephen Mangan's series Free Agents, among others. In 2009, she created her own show, Bluebell Welch, for MTV, where she played an overzealous, obsessive MTV presenter. Alongside her comedy projects, she performed smaller, serious roles in popular UK TV series such as Silent Witness, Casualty, Blackbeard: Terror at Sea and Spooks. She was co-lead in an episode of Channel 4's anthology series Coming Up. Alongside a film career, she took on occasional TV roles, in series such as Lewis, Doll & Em and London Spy. In 2016 she was a series regular on My Mother and Other Strangers. She played Marie Antoniette in the 2022 STARZ series adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons.