Tamara Lawrance

Tamara Lawrance is a British actress born in Wembley who began acting in school plays at six and trained at RADA, graduating in 2015. She started her professional career with the 2016 BBC miniseries Undercover. On stage she appeared at the National Theatre as Dussie Mae in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and she was widely praised for her performance opposite Matt Smith in Unreachable at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2017 she played Viola in the National Theatre production of Twelfth Night, which was shown around the world through NT Live, and she took second place in the Ian Charleson Awards for that role. That year also brought a leading role in the BBC television film King Charles III (2017) and the part of Cordelia in King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre. Her later television work included The Long Song, the prison drama Time and the title role in Get Millie Black.