Sophie Ward
| Sophie Ward | |
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| Born |
30 December 1964 London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1974–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Paul Hobson (m. 1988; div. 1996) Rena Brannan (m. 2014) |
| Children | 2 |
Sophie Ward (born 30 December 1964), is an English actress and the daughter of late actor Simon Ward. Her screen roles include that of Elizabeth Hardy, the beautiful, ill-fated true love of Sherlock Holmes in the film Young Sherlock Holmes.
Ward started work as an actress when she was aged 10, and has worked all over the world in film, television and theatre. She trained as a dancer under world-famous ballerina Merle Park. One of Ward's early film roles was in the film Young Sherlock Holmes directed by Barry Levinson. Other early films included Full Circle, Return to Oz playing beautiful princess mombi II, Little Dorrit and A Summer Story, and she also portrayed the dancing love object in Roxy Music's video "Avalon".
During the 1990s she turned her acting energies to stagework, with considerable acclaim and success. She has appeared in several Glasgow Citizens' Theatre productions including Private Lives (as Amanda), Don Carlos (as Queen Elizabeth) and most strikingly in Hamlet as Ophelia. In 2006 she produced and starred in Henry Green's Nothing which had its US premier at the 59E59 Theatre in New York for the Brits Off Broadway Festival.
Her most recent films are Out of Bounds (2003), in which she co-stars with Sophia Myles and Celia Imrie, and Book of Blood (2008), co-starring Jonas Armstrong and Reg Fuller. She also recently appeared in Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre (2011). She has worked with such film greats as Susan Sarandon in The Hunger directed by Tony Scott, Liv Ullmann in A Time of Indifference directed by Mauro Bolognini and Elizabeth Taylor in Young Toscanini directed by Franco Zefferili.
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