Working steadily in frock flicks for a couple decades now, Charity Wakefield has gone from nice to naughty and various in between. She graduated from Oxford School of Drama and has returned to the stage in between movie and TV roles. Who knows where she’ll turn up next?
Miss Temple in Jane Eyre (2006)
Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Ethel Bennett in Casualty 1907 & Casualty 1909 (2008-09)
Land Fothergill in Any Human Heart (2008)
Anya in National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard (2011)
Field’s Maid in The Raven (2012)
Marilyn Munster in Mockingbird Lane (2012)
Molly Kendall in “A Caribbean Mystery,” Marple (2014)
Mary Boleyn in Wolf Hall (2015)
Julia in Close to the Enemy (2016)
Emilia Bassano in Emilia (2017)
Charity Lambert in The Halcyon (2017)
Betty in “Einstein,” Genius (2017)
Georgina Dymov in The Great (2020-23)
What’s your favorite frock flick role of Charity Wakefield’s?
I don’t know where she’s going next, but I’ll bet Ms Wakefield’s rap sheet of stolen scenes will only get longer still before all is done.
As for THE RAVEN, I found it entertaining (To the point of wondering whether Mr Cusack will be kind enough to record a reading of Mr Edgar Allen Poe’s works).
Definitely “Wolf Hall” and “The Great.” Funny in the latter (fab clothes) and unusually nuanced as Mary Boleyn, a woman trying to keep her head, and the rest of her, above water.
Wolf hall! She looks weird in modern clothes
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Wolf Hall. She brought great humor and pathos to the role of Mary Boleyn. I wanted her to marry Cromwell, just so she’d be in the entire series.
The Great. I am still angry at Hulu for cancelling the show. What is wrong with people?
I didn’t care for that Sense & Sensibity adaptation, but she was a wonderful Marianne!
I loved her natural charisma in “Sense & Sensibilty”. She is just so innocent and young and I loved the darke tone of the version.
First saw her as the feisty independent “NYC” woman who snaps the Twelfth Doctor out of his emo morose phase after losing Clar… er, River. Not a frock moment, though.