Clemency Burton-Hill
| Clemency Burton-Hill | |
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Burton-Hill in December 2011
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Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton 1 July 1981 London, England |
| Other names | Clemmie Burton-Hill |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse(s) | James Roscoe |
Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton (born 1 July 1981, in London) is an English actress, novelist, musician, journalist and radio presenter.
The daughter of the television presenter and writer Humphrey Burton and Gillian Hawser, an agent (who had married Robert I Hill in 1970), she attended St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School before reading English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Burton-Hill is a former scholar at the Royal College of Music, where she was the recipient of the Hugh Bean Violin Prize.
Burton-Hill has worked as an actress since 1997 in film and television productions, appearing in Dream Team (1997–98), The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000), Midsomer Murders (2004), Supernova (2005), Hustle (2006), and playing the regular role of Sophie Montgomery in Party Animals (2007).
She has toured with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. In 2005 Burton-Hill co-founded Aurora Orchestra and is a trustee of the Choir of London and a member of its orchestra, with whom she regularly tours to the West Bank and Occupied Territories.
In 2008 and 2009, she was a member of the live presenting team at the Proms for BBC Four and BBC Two, interviewing Philip Glass and Daniel Barenboim. She has fronted the medical documentary Operation Smile, filmed in Madagascar; presented a film about Frédéric Chopin for BBC World as part of their Visionaries series; and in 2009 co-presented, with Huw Edwards, six films about the Leeds International Piano Competition for BBC Four.
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