Sofia Oxenham is an English television actress. She played Tess Tregidden on the BBC One series Poldark and plays Carrie on the Disney+ series Extraordinary.

Early life

Oxenham has an Australian father and Cornish mother, and two brothers and a sister. She grew up in Devon before the family moved to Trebetherick in Cornwall when she was a teenager. She worked for a local waterski company in Rock, Cornwall during her summer holidays.^[1]

Oxenham was a keen actress and participated in school plays and local amateur dramatic productions in Cornwall. Twice she reached the final round of RADA interviews without becoming a successful applicant. She moved to London and worked as a runner on a film set and got paid to perform at children parties before a third application was successful.^[2] She graduated from RADA in 2017.^[3]

Career

Oxenham's television roles have included playing series 5 regular Tess Tregidden on BBC One’s series Poldark.^[4] She also had a recurring role as Eydis on Netflix series Cursed, as well as having parts on Doc Martin, Dracula, Soulmates, and Grantchester.^[5][6]

In 2023 Oxenham was first seen in the lead role of Carrie in the Disney+ superhero comedy series Extraordinary.^[7] Carrie has the ability to communicate with spirits from beyond the world of living. She told Collider that she laughed out-loud at the scripts that felt “fresh and different” and to be part of the show was a “golden opportunity”.^[8] Oxenham described it as the first comedic role she had ever performed.^[9] Mike Hale in The New York Times praised her for the communicating beyond the grave scenes which “a lip-syncing Oxenham does to great comic effect”.^[10] The show was well received and renewed for a second season by Disney+ in January 2023.^[11]

Filmography