# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sophie-ward
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:53:02.700Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sophie-ward"
name: "Sophie Ward"
slug: "sophie-ward"
description: "Sophie Anna Ward is a British stage and screen actress, and a writer of non-fiction and fiction from London. As an actress, she played Jocelyn Sheffield in The Nanny; she also played Elizabeth Hardy, the female lead in Barry Levinson's Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), and in other feature film roles including in Cary Joji Fukunaga's period drama Jane Eyre (2011), and Jane Sanger's horror feature Swiperight (2020). In 1982 she had a role in the Academy Award-winning short film A Shocking Accident. On television she played Dr Helen Trent in the ITV police period drama series Heartbeat from 2004 to 2006, Sophia Byrne in the series Holby City from 2008 to 2010, Lady Ellen Hoxley in the series Land Girls from 2009 to 2011, and Lady Verinder in the mini-series The Moonstone (2016). She has had a variety of other roles on stage and in short and feature films."
tagline: "British actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sophie_Ward.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-12-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.73527866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/sophieannaward"
    handle:    "sophieannaward"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001830/"
    handle:    "nm0001830"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sophieward.com/"
sources:
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    title: "سوفی وارڈ"
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    title: "سوفي وارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سوفى وارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sophie Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wardov%C3%A1"
    title: "Sophie Wardová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Ward"
    title: "Sophie Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Ward"
    title: "Sophie Ward"
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    title: "Sophie Ward"
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    title: "سوفی وارد"
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    title: "Sophie Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Ward"
    title: "Sophie Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "סופי וורד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sophie Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ソフィー・ワード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Ward"
    title: "Sophie Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sophie Ward"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Софі Ворд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q447703"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31921"
    title: "Sophie Ward"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump