Sophia Myles is one of those angel-faced blondes who is just SO perfect for historical roles, so when I see her in a period flick I know I’m going to enjoy her. She started off in historical films, and it seemed like she was maybe going to break out with her parts in vampire/werewolf movie Underworld and as the lead in Tristan + Isolde, but no dice. She worked steadily through 2014, including the role EVERYONE knows (Reinette/Madame de Pompadour in Dr. Who), then there was a break; she’s set to play a role in A Discovery of Witches (2018), a book about a modern-day academic who discovers she’s a witch, which should be amazing, but it rivals Twilight in its lack-of-female-agency, so, meh (I literally would have thrown the book across the room, but it was my iPad, so…).
What’s your favorite of Sophia Myles’s historical roles?
ooooh that Red ‘Marple’ dress. Me likee.
Well, Madame de Pompadour of course! First, because Dr Who. Second, because she smooched 10 and third, I quite like that dress… So, okay, the hair’s all wrong and no powder, but at least it’s up! And as Louis XV mistresses go, we’ve seen far worse: Yes, I’m looking at you, Outlander (No, I’m not over it. I may NEVER be over it)
I’ve only seen her in “Sleeping Murder”.
The Doctor Who photo does look like a room full of polyester to me, but that might be sacrilege on my part. I have not seen her in enough things to have a favourite, although it seems she has indeed been in quite a lot.
Actually she played Johnny Depp’s wife in flashbacks in From Hell; she was never a prostitute and she died in childbirth. The loss of his wife and child is the reason he’s addicted to laudanum and absinthe in the movie…..
I feel she’s underrated, and should have had a bigger break! Glad shes getting some love in this post.
She wasn’t the zoo keeper’s wife in our zoo but his neighbour
Love her. Seen them all, and a lot more of her work besides. About a billion years ago, Facebook had a “change your profile picture to a celebrity you resemble” day and my friends universally chose Sophia Myles for mine. Round face. Big eyes. Blonde. Yup. Maybe that’s why I like her so much; I feel a kinship with round-faced girls. Haha.
After all the Weinstein BS, it makes me wonder if her lack of career has anything to do with that…I loved her in “Sleeping Murder.”
Thank you so much for your comments on Discovery of Witches- I wanted to like that book bc the concept was promising (Oxford! Academia! The occult!) but the characters drove me to distraction.