Camilla Power
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Camilla Power | |
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Born | Camilla Joy Cynthia Power 13 November 1976[1] Cork, Ireland |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1988–present |
Children | 1 |
Camilla Joy Cynthia Power (born 13 November 1976) is an Irish-born English actress. As a child, she played several parts in film and television, and she continued with her acting career as an adult.
Background and early life[]
Power was born in Cork, Ireland, and is a distant cousin of the actor Tyrone Power. Her great-grandfather was Sir John Power, Member of Parliament for Wimbledon before the Second World War.[1]
Power attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, and started acting from an early age; her first TV appearance was on a chicken nuggets commercial, and an early screen role was as Sabina Halliday in A Summer Story (1988). Her voice was featured in the English dubbed version of Alice, also in 1988. She appeared in Channel 4’s The Manageress (1990) and played Jill Pole in BBC television’s The Silver Chair (1990), an adaptation of the book by C. S. Lewis. She also had parts in Bonjour la Classe (1993) and Moonacre (BBC, 1993), the last calling for skill at horse-riding. From 1993 to 1995 she was a regular cast member on the Yorkshire Television soap Emmerdale, playing Jessica McAllister.
Power made her stage debut in a theatrical adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the National Theatre in 1998. She had roles in the television drama series Murder in Mind and The Brief.
In 2006, she appeared in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road as English teacher Lorna Dickey and returned for the second series in 2007, until her character committed suicide after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
In early 2008 she starred in the Torchwood episode "From Out of the Rain" as Pearl, a circus star who escapes from an old cinema film and seeks revenge on those who put her out of business.
Power was seen in the British action movie The Tournament as the ruthless assistant to Liam Cunningham's Tournament Master. In 2012, she appeared in two episodes of ITV drama Whitechapel.
In 2016, she appeared in "Shut Up and Dance", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.
Filmography[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1988 | Soft Soaps | TV movie | |
Alice | Alice (voice) | Uncredited | |
A Summer Story | Sabina Halliday | ||
1989 | Not the End of the World | Ellen | TV movie |
1990 | The Chronicles of Narnia - The Silver Chair | Jill Pole | TV movie |
1993–95 | Emmerdale | Jessica McAllister | soap opera |
1996 | The Treasure Seekers | Dora | TV movie |
1996 | Throwaways | Sky | TV movie |
1997 | Stone Cold | Girl | |
1998 | The Echo | Lisa | TV movie |
2000 | The Calling | Lynette Peterson | A straight-to-video movie |
2002 | Sparkhouse | Becky Lawton | TV movie |
2003 | Hornblower: Duty | Betsy | TV movie |
2003 | Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb | Two-part BBC TV film |
2005 | The Brief | Millie Marsh | TV series |
2006-7 | Waterloo Road | Lorna Dickey | Series regular (18 episodes) |
2008 | Torchwood | Pearl | Episode 2.10: From Out of the Rain |
2011 | Doctors | Elsa Atherton | TV series |
2012 | Whitechapel | DI Mina Norroy | TV series |
2013 | Lewis | Tara Faulkner | TV series E7.3&4 “The Ramblin’ Boy” |
2013 | Father Brown | Dominique Baxter | TV series: Episode 5 "The Eye of Apollo" |
2016 | Black Mirror | Sandra | Episode: "Shut Up and Dance" |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, vol. 3 (2003), p. 3198
External links[]
- 1976 births
- Living people
- English television actresses
- English people of Irish descent
- English actor stubs