Hermione Norris

Born in Paddington, London, Hermione Norris is an English actress who trained at LAMDA in the 1980s and began with early stage and television work. Her breakout came in 1996 when she was cast as Karen Marsden in the comedy drama Cold Feet, a role she played in every episode from 1998 to 2003 and that brought a British Comedy Award nomination. From 2002 to 2005 she appeared as Carol Jordan in Wire in the Blood, and from 2005 to 2009 she played Ros Myers in the BBC spy drama Spooks. For Spooks she won the Best Actress prize at the inaugural ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards and was nominated the following year. She also co-starred in Kingdom from 2007 to 2009 as Beatrice Kingdom, and had roles in Doctor Who in 2014 and Luther in 2019. In 2020 she was in the Australian thriller Between Two Worlds. On stage she toured in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit.