Nationality British Genre Musicals | Years active 2004–present | |
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Full Name Charlotte Carry Anne Spencer Occupation Actress, singer, dancer Movies and TV shows Similar Colin Morgan, Alexander Hanson, Charlie Creed‑Miles, Amy Griffiths, Joanna Riding | ||
Charlotte Carry Anne Spencer (born 26 September 1991 in Harlow, England) is a British actress, singer and dancer. She is known for her playing the female lead in The Living and the Dead. Screen International named her a Star of Tomorrow 2015.
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Personal life
She was born 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 3 and has wanted to perform since then. At the age of 11, her parents sent her to a drama school in London, at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone. Charlotte's parents remortgaged their house to support her acting career. As of 2016 she lives with her parents when not working as an actor, working with her grandmother at a charity shop and helping with the choir at her mother's infants school. She has a dog, Chip.
Charlotte is the third cousin of well known Australian Singer-Songwriter, Jode Gannon.
Theatre
She got her acting break in Mary Poppins aged 12, appearing as Jane Banks in Richard Eyre's 2004 production of the musical. In 2009, she played Bet in Oliver!. In 2013, Eyre again cast Spencer, this time as Christine Keeler in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Stephen Ward, alongside Charlotte Blackledge as Mandy Rice-Davies.
Television and film
Spencer appeared as Dexter Fletcher's daughter in Hotel Babylon. She was the voice of Angelina Ballerina on Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps when she was 17. Spencer appeared in the films Wild Bill and Les Misérables in 2011 and then Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp in 2012.
Spencer appeared as jockey Tina Fallon in the 2014 E4 TV series Glue and was nominated for a Supporting Actress BAFTA for this role in 2015. Deadline.com reported that she will star in Broad Squad; in 2015 she appeared in a pilot of Broad Squad as a 1970s police officer on ABC, which was not made into a series, and filmed a BFI short, Above. She played the lead role, Lilly, in the film Bypass with George MacKay and appeared as Ellie in the BBC2 TV series Stonemouth. In 2015, she was nominated for best actress awards for Stonemouth at BAFTA Scotland. In the BBC1 horror TV series The Living and the Dead, broadcast in June 2016, she played the role of a photographer turned housewife, Charlotte Appelby, with Colin Morgan. She said of the role "since I was a child, I’ve always wanted to do a period drama".
In May 2016, she began filming for the BBC/NFTS short film Diagnosis in the lead role of Sally, a woman who acts in medical role play.
