Lourdes Faberes

Lourdes Faberes is a Philippines-born actress who has worked largely in Britain after moving there in 1997. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, earning an MA in performance, and began on stage in a 1991 production of The King and I and with a Philippines repertory company in Miss Saigon. Her screen debut was in the Jesus Christ Superstar production for the Great Performances series. In 2004 she played flight dynamics officer Isabel Liu in the BBC's Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets. Later television roles include Altani in Knightfall, Sister Li in Floodlands, Pollution in Good Omens and, in 2022, Kate Fletcher in The Sandman. On film she appeared as a SPECTRE agent in No Time to Die and as Emilia in Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023), a role that earned her a best supporting actress prize at the 2023 National Film Awards UK and a nomination.