Nell Hudson

Nell Hudson is an English actress who also writes and makes music. Born in Worcestershire and raised near Pershore, she chose acting as a teenager and studied at the Oxford School of Drama, where her stage work included The Crucible and Closer. Her first professional job came in 2012 with a guest appearance on Holby City. In 2014 she began playing Laoghaire MacKenzie in the Starz drama Outlander, and from 2016 to 2019 she appeared as Nancy Skerrett in the ITV period drama Victoria. Other television work includes Call the Midwife, Crossing Lines, Agatha Raisin and Informer, while she played Lydia Bennet in a 2015 Sheffield Crucible production of Pride and Prejudice. She had her first major film role in Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) and later played Clarissa Frost in The Doll Factory. She has also sung professionally, headlined Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, toured with Jools Holland, and published the novel Just For Today in 2022.