Zoë Tapper

Zoë Tapper is an English actress who studied at the Academy Drama School and then at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 2003 just before her first film role. Born in Bromley, she came to prominence as Nell Gwynne in Richard Eyre's Stage Beauty (2004). She then appeared as Gwendolyn in Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005) and as Selina Dawes in the ITV adaptation of Affinity (2008). Her television work includes Mary Collins in A Harlot's Progress (2006), Gemma in Hex, Jenny Maple in Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Anya Raczynski in Survivors, and Mina Harker in Demons. She played Effie Gray in Desperate Romantics and Ellen Love in Mr Selfridge, and took the role of Katy Sutcliffe in Liar. On stage her work includes Othello at Shakespeare's Globe and a West End staging of Epitaph for George Dillon.