Sophie Cookson

[1] After being part of a theatre company that had toured Japan, she quit acting to study art history and Arabic at the University of Edinburgh.

[2] While still attending Oxford Drama School in her senior year,[1] she was cast as Grace Mohune in the Sky 1 miniseries Moonfleet, based on the J. Meade Falkner novel of the same name.

In early 2014, she appeared in the film adaption of the Rosamunde Pilcher novel Unknown Heart [fr], produced by German television network ZDF, portraying Millie Lancaster.

Beginning in June 2017, she appeared in the Netflix series Gypsy as troubled singer Sidney Pierce.

[9] In July, she appeared in the horror film The Crucifixion, playing a journalist investigating a lethal exorcism performed on a nun, and in September of the same year, she reprised her role as Roxy Morton in the sequel to The Secret Service, The Golden Circle, while also appearing in a musical short for the song Pleader by British indie rock group alt-J.