Sophie Stuckey

Stuckey was born in London, in the borough of Camden.^[2] Her first role as an actress was in 2002, at the age of 11, in the film Close Your Eyes,^[3] while the following year she was in I Capture the Castle, film adaptation of Dodie Smith's book of the same name. Afterwards, she was in The Dark in 2005^[4] and in My Life in Ruins (aka Driving Aphrodite) in 2009.^[5]

Meanwhile, in 2004 she debuted on TV in the BBC film Who Cares?, written and directed by Ray Harrison Graham and produced by RedBird Productions;^[6][7] in 2006 she appeared in one episode of the ninth season of Midsomer Murders, playing Dora Southerly, a girl who finds the body of a man in an old sawmill.^[8]

In 2010, she got the role of Summer Farley, leading of the TV series Summer in Transylvania,^[9] which pushed her to quit her studies in Global Politics and International Relations at Birkbeck, University of London,^[10] and took part in The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe, coming out in 2012:^[11] in the film she was Stella Kipps, late wife of the leading, who appeared only in flashbacks or as a ghost. The next year she joined the cast of the two-part miniseries The Reckoning,^[12] in which she played the part of cancer-stricken fifteen-year-old Amanda Wilson.^[10]

In 2012 she took part, as Jemma, in Menhaj Huda's horror film Comedown,^[13] which was screened as world premiere on 4 October 2012 at Grimmfest.^[14] In January 2013 she was in two episodes of the sixteenth season of the TV series Silent Witness, playing Karen Masters,^[15][16] while in April she was in Endeavour.^[17] In September she portrayed Eva Harper in the fourth episode of the third season of Vera.^[18]