Charlotte Spencer

Charlotte Spencer (born 26 September 1991) is an English actress, dancer and singer. She is known for playing the female lead in The Living and the Dead. Screen International magazine named her a Star of Tomorrow 2015. Early and personal life Spencer was born on 26 September 1991 in Harlow, Essex, to Peter and Karen. She has a younger sister and brother. Spencer said of her background, "I come from a working class background; my dad's a builder and my mum works in a school." She started ballet aged three and wanted to perform since then. At the age of 11, her parents sent her to the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, London. Her parents remortgaged their house to support her acting career. In 2016, she lived with her parents when not working as an actor, and worked with her grandmother at a charity shop and helps with the choir at her mother's infants' school. She has a dog, Chip. Career Theatre