Sophie Ward
British actress · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Born 1964 · age 61
Sophie Anna Ward is a British stage and screen actress, and a writer of non-fiction and fiction from London.
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Something wrong?A life in dates
A Very British ScandalSeries, Janet Kidd
Remembering Return to OzFilm, 20212017
StrikeSeries, Anna Phipps2011
Jane EyreFilm, Lady Ingram2009
Land GirlsSeries, Lady Ellen Hoxley2007
LewisSeries, Isobel Crompton2004
Nobody Knows Anything!Film, Claire Howard2003
Dinotopia 4: New HorizonsFilm, Rosemary2002
DinotopiaSeries, Rosemary Waldo1998
Bela DonnaFilm, Lidia1995
ChillerSeries, Fransesca Monsanto
A Village AffairFilm, 1995Alice Jordan1993
Peak PracticeSeries, Lorna Goodley
Class of '61Film, 1993Shannon O'Neil1992
HeartbeatSeries, Dr. Helen Trent
Waxwork II: Lost in TimeFilm, 1992Eleanor1990
Cellini: A Violent LifeFilm, Porzia / Supplizia1988
A Summer StoryFilm, Stella Halliday1986
CasualtySeries, Sandra Dillon1985
A Better Class of PersonFilm, Isabel1983
The HungerFilm, Girl in London House1979
Certainties and DoubtsFilm1976The Copter KidsFilm, Jill Peters1964Born30 December 1964People around Sophie
Jonathan Hyde Also in Dinotopia 2: The Temptation (2002)
Erik von Detten Also in Dinotopia 2: The Temptation (2002)
Michael Brandon Also in Dinotopia 2: The Temptation (2002)
Lisa Zane Also in Dinotopia 2: The Temptation (2002)- Thomas J. Wright Directed Dinotopia 2: The Temptation (2002)
Shiloh Strong Also in Dinotopia 2: The Temptation (2002)
Georgina Rylance Also in Dinotopia 2: The Temptation (2002)
Franc Roddam Directed Aria and The Lords of Discipline
Omid Djalili Also in Dinotopia 2: The Temptation (2002)
C. Thomas Howell Directed The Big Fall (1997)
Jeremy Northam Also in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992)
Giacomo Battiato Directed A Violent Life (1990)
Fábio Barreto Directed White Dunes (1998)
Paul Geoffrey Also in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992)
Peter Kosminsky Directed Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992)
Simon Shepherd Also in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992)
Elizabeth Taylor Also in The Nanny and Young Toscanini
Jean-Luc Godard Directed Aria (1987)
Robert Altman Directed Aria (1987)
John Hurt Also in Aria and Crime and Punishment
Franco Zeffirelli Directed Young Toscanini (1988)
Tony Scott Directed The Hunger (1983)
Barry Levinson Directed Young Sherlock Holmes (1986)
Michael Gough Also in A Village Affair and The Shell Seekers
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Jane Eyre 2011
Young Sherlock Holmes 1985
Return to Oz 1985
The Hunger 1983
Wuthering Heights 1992
Filmography 40
66 credits on file
Television 20
Media & music
Photos 1
About this person
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.
