Sophie Stuckey (born 1 March 1991) is an English actress.

Biography and career

Sophie Stuckey was born in London, in the borough of Camden, on 1 March 1991. Her first role as an actress was in 2002, at the age of 11, in the film Close Your Eyes,^[2] 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^[3] and in My Life in Ruins (aka Driving Aphrodite) in 2009.^[4]

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;^[5][6] 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.^[7]

In 2010, she got the role of Summer Farley, leading of the TV series Summer in Transylvania,^[8] which pushed her to quit her studies in Global Politics and International Relations at Birkbeck,^[9] and took part in The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe, coming out in 2012:^[10] 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,^[11] in which she played the part of cancer-stricken fifteen-year-old Amanda Wilson.^[9]

In 2012 she took part, as Jemma, in Menhaj Huda's horror film Comedown,^[12] which was screened as world premiere on 4 October 2012 at Grimmfest.^[13] In January 2013 she was in two episodes of the sixteenth season of the TV series Silent Witness, playing Karen Masters,^[14][15] while in April she was in Endeavour.^[16] In September she portrayed Eva Harper in the fourth episode of the third season of Vera.^[17]

Filmography

Film

Television