Anna Maxwell Martin

Anna Maxwell Martin is an English actress who studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and began her professional stage career in 2001 with The Little Foxes at London's Donmar Theatre. She gained notice on the London stage as Lyra in His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, then played Bessie Higgins in the BBC's North and South in 2004. Her role as Esther Summerson in Bleak House (2005) earned her a BAFTA Television Award, and she won a second for Poppy Shakespeare (2008). She was nominated for a BAFTA for the comedy Motherland, which she starred in from 2016 to 2022. Her film work includes I Really Hate My Job (2007), Becoming Jane (2007), Moonshot (2009) and The Night Watch (2011). She played DCS Patricia Carmichael in Line of Duty and won an International Emmy Award in 2025 for Until I Kill You.