Sophie Melville

Actress

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

Biography

Sophie Melville is a Welsh actress of stage and screen. She has been the recipient of best actress at the Stage Awards for Acting Excellence and nominated for the Outstanding Solo Performance at the Drama Desk Awards and the Best Actress Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her work in Iphigenia in Splott.

Filmography

6.2

Casualty

Captain Amber Mitchell

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

7.5

Call the Midwife

Yvonne Smith

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

6.3

The Chelsea Detective

Daisy Philips

Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a local bookshop owner, Max is a far cry from the affluent elite whose crimes he'll help solve along with D.C. Priya Shamsie.

6.0

The Way

Thea Driscoll

Strikes in Port Talbot spark a revolution – and a family of fugitives go on the run. Facing impossible choices, what would you do?

7.1

The Pact

Mandy

How far would you go to protect those you love? Divided loyalties test the ties of family and friends—because secrets always have consequences.

7.9

Bang

Marissa Clarke

Loner Sam's life is transformed when he comes into possession of a gun and starts to break the law. His ambitious policewoman sister Gina is paid to uphold it and makes it her mission to find the owner of the weapon. The family saga plays out against an inquiry into the shooting of a local businessman that raises questions for Sam and Gina about their father's murder when they were young children.

4.5

Canaries

Sian

The first wave of an alien invasion coincides with a New Years Eve party in a Welsh valley.

N/A

The Merchant of Venice

Portia

Director Abigail Graham’s contemporary take on The Merchant of Venice shows Shakespeare’s disturbing tale in a new light. Shylock (Adrian Schiller) and Jessica (Eleanor Wyld) reclaim their stories in Shakespeare's Globe's ‘heart-wrenching’ (The Guardian) 2021 production, played by candlelight and filmed live in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

N/A

Telling Tales

Leyla

Two young women from very different backgrounds are forced together as part of a storytelling workshop for young offenders.

6.0

Mauled By a Dog

Chloe

After his girlfriend is viciously attacked by a dog, a lowly call center worker ventures on a surreal mission for vengeance through the dark underbelly of the South Wales Valleys.

N/A

Bury Your Gays

Clara

Bury Your Gays follows actor Grace, who can’t understand why every role she lands ends in her untimely death - until a mysterious agent explains the ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope. Now, trapped in a genre-hopping battle for survival, Grace has one mission: do not die.

N/A

Iphigenia in Splott

Effie

"I wonder, just how long we are going to have to take it for? I wonder, what is going to happen when we can't take it any more?" Gary Owen's reworking of the classic Greek myth of Iphigenia is here moved to Cardiff. Effie, a typical discontented 'youth', finds herself in a situation that makes her rethink her entire life. This production, directed by Rachel O'Riordan, was captured by Digital Theatre, live at The North Wall Arts Centre in Oxford, UK. It received wide critical acclaim and features an extraordinary performance from Sophie Melville as Effie.

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