Charity Wakefield

Charity Rose Wakefield is an English actress. Her appearances include roles in Sense & Sensibility (2008), Casualty 1900s (2008–2009), Wolf Hall and (2015), Close to the Enemy (2016), , Genius and Bounty Hunters (2017), and as Georgina Dymova in (2020–2023). Early life and education Charity Wakefield was born in Tunbridge Wells Her first taste of acting was in an amateur dramatics school production of Sleeping Beauty in 1987. Wakefield attended a three year acting course at Oxford School of Drama graduating in 2003. Besides acting, Wakefield plays the violin and has a strong soprano singing voice. Career Wakefield made her screen debut in 2004, in (Past Present Future) Imperfect. She starred in a BBC1 production of Rapunzel, in which Rapunzel is a young tennis star, and also appeared in Casualty 1907. Her theatre credits include Yesterday Was a Weird Day, a production about the 2005 London bombings, Constance in The Three Musketeers at the Bristol Old Vic, and Elaine in The Graduate, at the New Vic; she met her future husband, David Newman, when they acted together in The Graduate. Wakefield's performance as Susan in Baby with the Bathwater at the Old Red Lion Theatre was called "fabulous." In 2008 Wakefield toured in a revival of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle at the Chichester Festival Theatre, as well as working on the BBC comedy pilot Freddi.