Charlotte Hope

Hope was born in Salisbury and grew up in Lower Daggons, a rural hamlet in the New Forest District of Hampshire.^[1]

Hope attended boarding school.^[2] She first discovered acting through a drama class at school.^[3] She went on to study French and Spanish at the University of Oxford. Whilst there, she found an agent and began taking jobs in theatre and commercials. Upon graduation from Oxford, Hope spent a year in Paris training in acting at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.^[4]

Hope made her film debut as a factory worker in the 2012 musical Les Miserables.^[5]

In 2013, Hope began playing the role of Ramsay Bolton's sadistic cannibal lover, Myranda, in HBO's fantasy drama series Game of Thrones.^[6] She continued in the role until the fifth season. In 2014, she guest starred in the first season of The Musketeers, playing the role of Charlotte Mellendorf. That same year, she appeared in the film The Theory of Everything, portraying Philippa Hawking, the younger sister of Stephen Hawking. In 2015, she had a leading role in the British gangster film North v South as Willow Clarke. That same year, Hope appeared in the music video "Beautiful to Me" by Olly Murs.^[7]

In 2016, Hope appeared in the biographical romantic drama A United Kingdom and the romantic thriller Allied. In 2017, she had a supporting role in the drama film Three Christs^[5] and in 2018, she co-starred in the horror film The Nun.^[8]

Hope has also done theatre work, including Broadway shows such as Buried Child where she played the role of Shelly in 2016.^[9] In 2017 she played the role of Zara in Almeida Theatre's Albion^[10] and in 2018 she played as Dr. Michaels' mother in The New Group's Good for Otto.^[11]

In March 2018, Hope was cast in the lead role of the Starz series The Spanish Princess, in which she plays Catherine of Aragon. The show is a follow-up to The White Queen and The White Princess.^[12]

In January 2020, she appeared as Annabel Connors, a main character in Season 2 of Bancroft opposite Sarah Parish.^[13] Having worked with Danish director Birgitte Stærmouse on the first season of The Spanish Princess, the pair teamed up again for Netflix's miniseries The English Game, which also aired in 2020.

She plays South African criminal profiler Micki Pistorius in the 2024 Showmax series Catch Me a Killer.^[14][15]

In 2025, she played series regular Sherry Felton in season one of the TV adaptations of Parnell Hall’s Puzzle Lady books, Murder Most Puzzling.^[16]

By January 2026, she was cast in the horror film Evil Dead Wrath from director Francis Galluppi.^[17]

After meeting on the set of The Spanish Princess in 2018, Hope has been in a relationship with her co-star Ruairi O'Connor.^[18] In November 2025, Hope announced that they had recently welcomed their first child. ^[19]

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Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2012	Les Misérables	Factory Woman		[20]
2013	The Invisible Woman	Effie		[21]
2014	Insomniacs	Jenny	Short film	[22]
	The Theory of Everything	Phillipa Hawking		[23]
	Testament of Youth	Betty	Uncredited	[24]
2015	North v South	Willow Clarke		[25]
	Miss You Already	Young Jess		[20]
2016	A United Kingdom	Olivia Lancaster		[26]
	Allied	Louise		[27]
2017	Diana and I	Sophie Lewis	Television film	[28]
	Three Christs	Becky Henderson		[29]
2018	The Nun	Sister Victoria		[30]
2023	The Piper	Melanie Walker		[31]
2024	Meet Me by the Sea	Anna	Short film	[32]
	It Was English	Mal	Short film	[33]
2025	Bury Me When I'm Dead	Catherine Samsa		[34]
2028	Evil Dead Wrath †	TBA	Filming	[35]

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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2010	Casualty	Ava Dunlop	Episode: "A Day in a Life"	[36]
	Missing	Caitlin Morgan	Episode: "Control"	[37]
2011	Waking the Dead	Abigail Harding	Episode: "Care"	[38]
2012	Doctors	Niamh Curram	Episode: "Full Time"	[39]
	Some Girls	Jenny	Episode: "Series 1, Episode 4"	[40]
2012–2013	Holby City	Eleanor Campbell	Recurring role; 3 episodes	[20]
2013	Love and Marriage	Alice	Episode: "Who's the Boss?"	[41]
	Law & Order: UK	Holly Leigh	Episode: "Fatherly Love"	[42]
	Whitechapel	Josie Eagle	Recurring role; 2 episodes	[43]
2013–2016	Game of Thrones	Myranda	Recurring role; 8 episodes	[44]
2014	The Musketeers	Charlotte Mellendorf	Guest role; 2 episodes	[45]
	Vera	Saskia Barnes	Episode: "The Deer Hunters"	[46]
	Playhouse Presents	Primrose	Episode: "Marked"	[47]
2016	Death in Paradise	Lucy Preville	Episode: "One for the Road"	[48]
	Houdini & Doyle	Molly Morgan	Episode: "Bedlam"	[49]
2018	Endeavour	Eve Thorne	Episode: "Muse"	[50]
2019–2020	The Spanish Princess	Catherine of Aragon	Series regular; 16 episodes	[51]
2020	The English Game	Margaret Alma Kinnaird	Miniseries; 6 episodes	[52]
2024	Catch Me a Killer	Micki Pistorius	Miniseries; 11 episodes	[53]
2025–2026	Murder Most Puzzling	Sherry Carter	Series regular; 6 episodes	[54]

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Video games

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Ryse: Son of Rome	Oracle
2018	We Happy Few	Sally Boyle

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