Kim Thomson

Kim Thomson is a British actress whose work in theater, television and film began in the early 1980s. She attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. Her most prominent mainstream role was Lesley Bainbridge in the BBC sitcom Brush Strokes, and in 1987 she appeared in the final episode of Tales of the Unexpected as Elly Somerton. She shared the lead in Stealing Heaven (1988) as Heloise, a performance praised by Films and Filming, and played young Estella in the 1989 television adaptation of Great Expectations. On stage she was Cordelia in King Lear in 1989, and the British Theatre Yearbook praised her work. Her later screen credits include The Tall Guy (1989), Jekyll & Hyde (1990), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) and 1408 (2007). Between 2009 and 2011 she appeared regularly on the soap opera Emmerdale as Faye Lamb.