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{{real world}} '''Sophie Hunter''' played [[Venessa]] in the ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' television story ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]''. | {{real world}} | ||
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'''Sophie Hunter''' played [[Venessa]] in the ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'' television story ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]''. | |||
Sophie Irene Hunter was born in London on March 16,1978. | |||
Her parents are Anna Katharine (née Gow) e Charles Rupert Hunter. | |||
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 | |||
great-great granddaughter to John Edward "Galloper Jack" Bernard Seely, 1st | |||
<nowiki> </nowiki>Baron Mottistone, an important figure in political and military circles | |||
<nowiki> </nowiki>of early twentieth century's Britain. She is niece to renowned pianist | |||
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 | |||
family. | |||
She attended St. Paul's Girl School in London and then graduated at Oxford | |||
with a Masters Degree in French and Italian. | |||
She later moved to Paris to study at the École internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. | |||
She more recently trained at Saratoga International Theatre School under Anne Bogart. | |||
In 2015 she got married to a long time friend: Benedict Cumberbatch. | |||
Their first son, Christopher Carlton, was born on June 1st the same year. | |||
Her work in theatre, film, television and music earned her praise across Europe and the USA. | |||
In | |||
<nowiki> </nowiki>New York's Access Theatre she adapted and directed a new version | |||
of Ibsen's Ghosts (2010) and created an installation/performance of | |||
Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (2011). Other credits include: | |||
Enron ( 2010 - Ass. Director - West End, Broadway) and The Terrific Electric (2007 - Barbican) for which she and her fellow artists of | |||
Boileroom were awarded the Oxford Samuel Beckett Award for new voices in | |||
<nowiki> </nowiki>experimental theatre. With her company she has devised and performed in international touring productions of Silverland (2007 - Arcola, Brits | |||
Off Broadway), Hamlet (2005 - Al Bustaan Festival, Beirut), Volpone (2001 - Avignon) and Ubu Roi (Baryshnikov Arts Center). | |||
She was selected to be the 2011 British artist in residence at SoHo's Location One where she won the British Artist Fellowship. | |||
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). | |||
In 2004 she played Maria Osborne alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Reese Witherspoon in Vanity Fair. | |||
She also took part in various independent productions such as Burlesque Fairytales (2009). | |||
Sophie Hunter worked as a Creative Director on Loma Lights (2013) one of the | |||
largest public arts programs in New York and co- conceived Don’t Major | |||
in Debt “Student House” (2012). She was one of the creative minds | |||
behind Punchdrunk's New York transfer of Emursive's Sleep No More and The Forgotten (2012) an immersive theatre experience which launched the | |||
<nowiki> </nowiki>McKittrick Hotel's literary gatherings "Secret Sunday Salon". | |||
She also serves as Collaborating Director and Conceiver to the Phantom Limb | |||
<nowiki> </nowiki>Company known for its work with marionette-puppetry focused on | |||
collaborative, multi-media theatrical production and design. With the | |||
Phantom Limb Company in 2013 Hunter took part in a month long residency | |||
in Captiva Island (Florida) with The Rauschenberg Foundation. | |||
Her | |||
<nowiki> </nowiki>venture into the music industry includes The Isis Project (2005), | |||
Songs for a Boy(2011)and "Virtual Friend" in Armin Van Buuren's | |||
Mirage (2011). | |||
Hunter's | |||
<nowiki> </nowiki>focus has now mainly shifted to Opera and Classical Music. In 2013 she | |||
was Creative Director for a preview of the still in-progress Tesla in | |||
New York by Jim Jarmusch and Phil Kline. In | |||
<nowiki> </nowiki>2015 she directed Ruby Philogene,MBE, in Benjamin Britten's cantata | |||
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. | |||
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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