Alice Orr-Ewing

Orr-Ewing was born in Hammersmith, London, the third child of the Hon. Robert James Orr-Ewing and Susannah (née Bodley Scott), and is the granddaughter of the Conservative politician Ian Orr-Ewing.^[1] She was educated at Heathfield School, Ascot.

She had a small part in the 2007 film Atonement before taking up a place at drama school at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 2008 to 2011.^[2][3] Within two years of leaving LAMDA she had appeared in two feature films and two television series. She starred in the 2012 British film The Scapegoat, an adaptation of the 1957 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. She also appeared in the last episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot, Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, a biopic of the life of the painter J. M. W. Turner and the biographical drama The Theory of Everything.^[2][3]