Tuppence Middleton’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro English actress
Is Actor 
From United Kingdom 
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio 
Gender female
Birth 21 February 1987, Bristol
Age: 33 years
Star sign Pisces
Residence Clevedon

Tuppence Middleton (born 21 February 1987) is an English actress. She was nominated for the London Evening Standard Film Awards 2010 for Most Promising Newcomer.
She has appeared in feature films such as Tormented (2009), Chatroom (2010), Cleanskin (2012), Trance (2013), The Lady Vanishes (2013), The Imitation Game (2014) and Jupiter Ascending (2015), as well as in television series such as Bones (2008), New Tricks (2010), Friday Night Dinner (2011), Sinbad (2012), Spies of Warsaw (2013), Black Mirror (2013), Sense8 (2015).
She starred in two British period dramas screened around the same time, Dickensian (2015–16), playing Miss Havisham, and War & Peace (2016), in which she played Russian princess and villain Hélène Kuragina.

Early life

Tuppence Middleton was born on 21 February 1987 in Bristol, England, to Nigel and Tina Middleton. She was named “Tuppence” after the childhood nickname her grandmother gave to her mother. She was raised in Clevedon, Somerset, with younger brother Josh and older sister Angel.

From an early age Tuppence was involved in school plays including Guys and Dolls at Bristol Grammar School, in which she played the lead role. She attended the performing arts school Stagecoach in Portishead, Bristol. She appeared in local drama productions, including a pantomime at Clevedon’s Princes Hall with her sister.

Tuppence attended Bristol Grammar School. She subsequently studied acting at the Arts Educational School in Chiswick, London, earning an honours degree in acting.

Career

Middleton gained a following for her appearance in the 2009 British horror/comedy Tormented. Her character, head girl Justine Fielding, dates one of the most popular boys in school, only to find that he and his friends were responsible for a classmate’s death. She has also appeared in adverts for the chewing gum Extra and Sky TV.

In 2010 she was nominated for the London Evening Standard Film Awards 2010 for Most Promising Newcomer and she starred in Samuel Abrahams’s BAFTA-nominated short film “Connect”. In 2011, she played the character Tanya Greene in the British sitcom Friday Night Dinner, and Sarah in Sirens. In 2012 she appeared in Cleanskin, a terrorist thriller. In March 2013 she made her professional theatre debut in The Living Room. She also played a minor role in the Danny Boyle film Trance. In 2015, she starred in the Netflix Original Series Sense8 as Riley Blue.

She starred in the 2016 BBC drama War & Peace, playing Russian aristocrat Princess Hélène Kuragin.

The series received critical acclaim and featured fellow young actress Lily James also known for her period dramas. The Daily Express said: “Rising star Tuppence Middleton takes on the role of the delightfully evil Helene Kuragina, who is one half of the incestuous duo. Audiences witnessed her brother getting a little too intimate with his sibling in the first episode before she turned her attentions to Pierre and dug her claws into him. She is a vile character who will use and abuse Pierre without giving him a second thought, to stop the beautiful Helena (Lily James) Pierre real love marrying him.”

Andrew Davies, who adapted War and Peace, described Middleton’s Hélène as “the naughtiest woman on TV at the moment”.

Personal life

She has in interviews described herself as shy. “I liked to be in my own company, so when I came home from school, I’d just go up to my room and hang out by myself. I wouldn’t really have friends over or go to see friends much. I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home. As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.” She has also said she has been asked if she is related to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge: “Since Kate Middleton came around, some people think I’m related to her, but unfortunately, there’s no connection.”

Filmography

Films
Year Title Role Notes
2008 Dance Lessons Alice Short film
2009 Tormented Justine Fielding
2010 Skeletons Rebecca
2010 Chatroom Candy
2010 In the Meadow Grace Short film
2010 Ever Here I Be Valerie Short film
2010 Connect Woman Short film
2011 Subculture Lily Short film
2012 Cleanskin Kate
2013 Trance Young Woman in Red Car
2013 Trap for Cinderella Micky
2013 The Love Punch Sophie
2013 A Long Way Down Kathy
2014 The Imitation Game Helen
2015 Jupiter Ascending Kalique Abrasax
2015 Spooks: The Greater Good June Keaton
2017 The Current War Mary Edison Filming
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2008 Bones Vera Waterhouse Episode: “Yanks in the U.K. (Part 1)”
Episode: “Yanks in the U.K. (Part 2)”
2010 New Tricks Melanie Higgs Episode: “Fashion Victim”
2010 First Light Grace TV film
2011 Friday Night Dinner Tanya Green Episode: “The Date”
Episode: “The Dress”
2011 Sirens Sarah Fraisor Episode: “Up, Horny, Down”
Episode: “I.C.E.”
2012 Sinbad Tiger Recurring character
2013 Lewis Vicki Walmsley Episode: “Down Among the Fearful – Part 1”
Episode: “Down Among the Fearful – Part 2”
2013 Spies of Warsaw Gabrielle TV miniseries
2013 Black Mirror Jem Episode: “White Bear”
2013 The Lady Vanishes Iris Carr TV film
2015–present Sense8 Riley Blue A main character, Netflix series
2015 Dickensian Amelia Havisham
2016 War & Peace Helene Kuragina
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