Sophie Ward
Biography
Sophie Ward is a British actress and writer who started performing as a child, training at the Anna Scher Theatre and studying dance under the ballerina Merle Park. Born in London, she took an early screen role in Full Circle (1977) and had a brief part in Tony Scott's vampire film The Hunger (1983). She had the female lead, Elizabeth Hardy, in Barry Levinson's Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), and played Princess Mombi II in Return to Oz (1985). Later films include Book of Blood (2009) and Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre (2011). Her television work includes Jocelyn Sheffield in The Nanny, Dr Helen Trent in Heartbeat from 2004 to 2006 and Sophia Byrne in Holby City from 2008 to 2010, and she won a regional Royal Television Society award for Land Girls. She has also written for newspapers and published fiction, with her debut novel longlisted for the Booker Prize.
61years old
Turns 62 on December 30in 78 days
- Born London
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Also credited as Sophie Anna Ward
Movie Career
- Films
- 14
- Career span
- 43 years1977 to 2020
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First role
Ward appeared in the 1983 Tony Scott vampire film The Hunger, playing a small non-speaking part near the end. Her character is credited as "Girl In London House".
Behind the camera
Ward's first novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments, came out in 2020 from Corsair. That same year it made the longlist for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Booker Prize.
Early training
Ward went back to higher education and in 2019 received a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research there, she said, dealt with thought experiments in philosophy of mind and narrative in philosophy.
Sophie Ward movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Sophie Ward shares two films with Jeremy Northam, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Jeremy Northam's page
Willem Dafoe's page
Susan Sarandon's page
John Hurt's page
Donald Pleasence's page
Ralph Fiennes's page
All films by Walter Murch
All films by Tony Scott
All films by Barry Levinson
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.