Charlotte Spencer (actress)

Spencer was born on 26 September 1991 in Harlow, Essex,^[3][4] to Peter and Karen. She has a younger sister and brother.^[5] Spencer said of her background, "I come from a working class background; my dad's a builder and my mum works in a school."^[6] She started ballet aged three and wanted to perform since then.^[6] At the age of 11, her parents sent her to the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, London.^[3] Her parents remortgaged their house to support her acting career.^[5] In 2016,^{[needs update]} she lived with her parents when not working as an actor,^[5] and worked with her grandmother at a charity shop and helps with the choir at her mother's infants' school. She has a dog, Chip.^[5]

Spencer made her acting debut at the age of 12 as Jane Banks in Richard Eyre's 2004 production of the musical Mary Poppins.^[3][7] In 2009, she played Bet in Oliver!.^[8] In 2013, Eyre again cast her, this time as Christine Keeler, in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Stephen Ward, with Charlotte Blackledge as Mandy Rice-Davies.^[3][9] The show's run was cancelled shortly afterwards.^[7]

Spencer appeared as Dexter Fletcher's daughter in Hotel Babylon.^[5] She was the voice of Angelina Ballerina on Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps when she was 17,^{[citation needed]} and has since worked as a voice actor, as Nettles in the 2018 television series Watership Down and as a continuity announcer for the Disney Channel.^[7] She appeared in the films Wild Bill and Les Misérables in 2011^[5][10] and then Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp in 2012.^[5]

After her theatre appearance as Christine Keeler ended, Spencer had a small part in Line of Duty and then was cast by the same director as the jockey Tina Fallon in the 2014 E4 television series Glue.^[11][7] She was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for this role in 2015.^[3][12] Deadline Hollywood reported that she would star in Broad Squad;^[13] in 2015, she appeared in a pilot of Broad Squad as a 1970s police officer on ABC,^[3] which was not made into a series.^[5] She starred as Niamh in the BFI short, Above, which won Best Short Film at the National Film Awards UK.^[14] She played the lead role, Lilly, in the film Bypass with George MacKay^[6] and appeared as Ellie in the BBC2 television series Stonemouth.^[15] In 2015, she was nominated for best actress awards for Stonemouth at BAFTA Scotland.^[16] In the BBC1 horror television series The Living and the Dead, broadcast in June 2016, she played the role of Charlotte Appelby, a photographer turned housewife, with Colin Morgan.^[17] She said of the role, "Since I was a child, I've always wanted to do a period drama."^[18] She appeared in another period drama in autumn 2019, as Esther Denham in Sanditon, a television adaptation of the unfinished Jane Austen novel.^[7] She defended the inclusion of sex and nudity as historically accurate and "humanising".^[19]

In May 2016, she filmed the BBC/NFTS short film Diagnosis in the lead role of Sally, a woman who acts in medical role play.^[20] Spencer will also play^{[needs update]} a hapless youth in the teen horror film Gateway, which uses the Momo Challenge as a plot device.^[21]

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