Occupation Actress Years active 1974–present | Name Sophie Ward Role Actress | |
 | ||
Born 30 December 1964 (age 59) ( 1964-12-30 ) London, England Parents Simon Ward, Alexandra Malcolm Spouse Rena Brannan (m. 2000), Paul Hobson (m. 1988–1996) Siblings Kitty McIntyre, Claudia Ward Children Joshua Hobson, Nathanial Hobson Movies and TV shows | ||
Actress and writer sophie ward with her partner rena brannan send their love to lgbt russia
Sophie Ward (born 30 December 1964) is an English actress and the daughter of the actor Simon Ward. Her screen roles include that of Elizabeth Hardy, the beautiful, ill-fated true love of Sherlock Holmes in the film Young Sherlock Holmes.
Contents
- Actress and writer sophie ward with her partner rena brannan send their love to lgbt russia
- Damiana with paul katami jeff zarrillo and sophie ward rena brannan at the 2014 glaad awards
- Career
- Personal life
- Film
- Television
- Guest appearances
- Short films
- Child performances
- References
Damiana with paul katami jeff zarrillo and sophie ward rena brannan at the 2014 glaad awards
Career
Ward started work as an actress when she was aged 10, and has worked all over the world in film, television and theatre. She trained as a dancer under world-famous ballerina Merle Park. One of Ward's early film roles was in the film Young Sherlock Holmes directed by Barry Levinson. Other early films included Full Circle, Return to Oz playing beautiful princess mombi II, Little Dorrit and A Summer Story, and she also portrayed the dancing love object in Roxy Music's music video "Avalon".
During the 1990s she turned her acting energies to stagework, with considerable acclaim and success. She has appeared in several Glasgow Citizens' Theatre productions including Private Lives (as Amanda), Don Carlos (as Queen Elizabeth) and most strikingly in Hamlet as Ophelia. In 2006 she produced and starred in Henry Green's Nothing which had its US premier at the 59E59 Theatre in New York for the Brits Off Broadway Festival.
Her most recent films are Out of Bounds (2003), in which she co-stars with Sophia Myles and Celia Imrie, and Book of Blood (2008), co-starring Jonas Armstrong and Reg Fuller. She also recently appeared in Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre (2011). She has worked with such film greats as Susan Sarandon in The Hunger directed by Tony Scott, Liv Ullmann in A Time of Indifference directed by Mauro Bolognini and Elizabeth Taylor in Young Toscanini directed by Franco Zefferili.
Her television work includes the acclaimed mini-series A Dark Adapted Eye with Helena Bonham Carter as the perfectly poised yet ultimately doomed Eden and the sweeping fantasy, Dinotopia. More recently, Sophie had the recurring role of Dr Helen Trent in long-running ITV drama Heartbeat. In 2008, Ward joined the cast of Holby City in a recurring role as Sophia Byrne, sister of surgeon Joseph Byrne.
Personal life
Ward has a first degree in Literature and Philosophy from the Open University.
She married veterinary surgeon Paul Hobson in 1988, and the couple have two sons, Nathanial (b.1989) and Joshua (b. 1993). They divorced in 1996 after Ward became involved with Korean-American writer, Rena Brannan, and came out as a lesbian. Ward and Brannan made their first public commitment at the Groucho Club in 2000, then had a civil partnership ceremony in 2005, followed by marriage after it was legalised in 2014.
Ward had long been considered a 'Face of the 1980s' as a Vogue model.
Ward's sister, Kitty, is married to stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre.
Film
Television
* Winner Best Actor (Female)
Guest appearances
Short films
* Oscar Best Short Film