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| | '''Sophie Hunter''' (born [[16 March (people)|16 March]] [[1978 (people)|1978]]<ref>[https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/sophie-hunter.html Famous Birthdays]</ref>) played [[Venessa]] in the ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' television story ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]''. |
| '''Sophie Hunter''' played [[Venessa]] in the ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' television story ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]''. | |
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| Sophie Irene Hunter was born in London on March 16,1978.
| | She is married to [[Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories|Big Finish ''Doctor Who'']] guest actor [[Benedict Cumberbatch]]. |
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| Her parents are Anna Katharine (née Gow) e Charles Rupert Hunter.
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| She is granddaughter to General Sir Michael James Gow , C-in-C of | |
| the British Army of the Rhine for the NORTHAG between 1980 and 1983 and
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| great-great granddaughter to John Edward "Galloper Jack" Bernard Seely, 1st
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| <nowiki> </nowiki>Baron Mottistone, an important figure in political and military circles
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| <nowiki> </nowiki>of early twentieth century's Britain. She is niece to renowned pianist
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| Julius Drake and to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross GVCO, OBE, Extra Equerry to The Queen. Hunter's family is also related to Jane Birkin's
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| family.
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| She attended St. Paul's Girl School in London and then graduated at Oxford
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| with a Masters Degree in French and Italian.
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| She later moved to Paris to study at the École internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.
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| She more recently trained at Saratoga International Theatre School under Anne Bogart.
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| In 2015 she got married to a long time friend: Benedict Cumberbatch.
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| Their first son, Christopher Carlton, was born on June 1st the same year.
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| Her work in theatre, film, television and music earned her praise across Europe and the USA.
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| <nowiki> </nowiki>New York's Access Theatre she adapted and directed a new version
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| of Ibsen's Ghosts (2010) and created an installation/performance of
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| Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (2011). Other credits include:
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| Enron ( 2010 - Ass. Director - West End, Broadway) and The Terrific Electric (2007 - Barbican) for which she and her fellow artists of
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| Boileroom were awarded the Oxford Samuel Beckett Award for new voices in
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| <nowiki> </nowiki>experimental theatre. With her company she has devised and performed in international touring productions of Silverland (2007 - Arcola, Brits
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| Off Broadway), Hamlet (2005 - Al Bustaan Festival, Beirut), Volpone (2001 - Avignon) and Ubu Roi (Baryshnikov Arts Center).
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| She was selected to be the 2011 British artist in residence at SoHo's Location One where she won the British Artist Fellowship.
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| Her roles in film and television include Torchwood (2009), Midsomer Murders (2004) The Curse of Steptoe (2008) and Henry VIII:Mind of a Tyrant (2009).
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| In 2004 she played Maria Osborne alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Reese Witherspoon in Vanity Fair.
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| She also took part in various independent productions such as Burlesque Fairytales (2009).
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| Sophie Hunter worked as a Creative Director on Loma Lights (2013) one of the
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| largest public arts programs in New York and co- conceived Don’t Major
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| in Debt “Student House” (2012). She was one of the creative minds
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| behind Punchdrunk's New York transfer of Emursive's Sleep No More and The Forgotten (2012) an immersive theatre experience which launched the
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| <nowiki> </nowiki>McKittrick Hotel's literary gatherings "Secret Sunday Salon".
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| She also serves as Collaborating Director and Conceiver to the Phantom Limb
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| <nowiki> </nowiki>Company known for its work with marionette-puppetry focused on
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| collaborative, multi-media theatrical production and design. With the
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| Phantom Limb Company in 2013 Hunter took part in a month long residency
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| in Captiva Island (Florida) with The Rauschenberg Foundation.
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| Her
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| <nowiki> </nowiki>venture into the music industry includes The Isis Project (2005),
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| Songs for a Boy(2011)and "Virtual Friend" in Armin Van Buuren's
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| Mirage (2011).
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| Hunter's
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| <nowiki> </nowiki>focus has now mainly shifted to Opera and Classical Music. In 2013 she
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| was Creative Director for a preview of the still in-progress Tesla in
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| New York by Jim Jarmusch and Phil Kline. In
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| <nowiki> </nowiki>2015 she directed Ruby Philogene,MBE, in Benjamin Britten's cantata
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| Phaedra at the 4th Happy Days International Beckett Festival and Britten's The Turn of the Screw for Aldeburgh Music staged in Snape Maltings and London's St.Luke's baroque church.
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| Hunter co-founded Lacuna Theatre in 2007. She is Director at Boileroom. She is a member of the performance collective The Militia Canteen.
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| == External links == | | == External links == |
| {{imdb name|id=1544286}} | | {{imdb name|id=1544286}} |
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| | == Footnotes == |
| | {{Reflist}} |
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| [[Category:Torchwood guest actors]] | | [[Category:Torchwood guest actors]] |
