Claudia "Claudie" Blakley (born 1974) is an English actress.

Her father was Alan Blakely, a member of the 1960s pop band The Tremeloes

The Tremeloes

The Tremeloes are an English beat group founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex, and still active today.-Career:They formed as Brian Poole and the Tremoloes influenced by Buddy Holly and The Crickets...

, and her sister Kirsten Blakley is lead singer of the indie band Little Spitfire. Blakley trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama

Central School of Speech and Drama

The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in London in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students...

. In 1998, she won the Ian Charleson Award for her performance in The Seagull

The Seagull

The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...

at the West Yorkshire Playhouse

West Yorkshire Playhouse

The West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, England is a theatre which opened in March 1990 as part of the regeneration of the Quarry Hill area of the city...

 in Leeds

Leeds

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. She is best known for her role as Emma Timmins in the BBC drama series Lark Rise to Candleford

Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series)

Lark Rise to Candleford is a British television costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the English countryside, published between 1939 and 1943. The first episode aired on 13 January 2008 on BBC One and BBC HD in the UK. In the...

.

Other notable roles include Mabel Nesbitt in Robert Altman

Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...

's Oscar-winning Gosford Park

Gosford Park

Gosford Park is a 2001 British-American mystery comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates, and Michael Gambon...

and Charlotte Lucas in Joe Wright

Joe Wright

Joe Wright is an English film director best known for Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Hanna.-Early life and career:...

's 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice

Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)

Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 British romance film directed by Joe Wright. It is a film adaptation of the 1813 novel of the same name by Jane Austen and the second adaption produced by Working Title Films. It was released on September 16, 2005, in the UK and on November 11, 2005, in the...

. In the autumn of 2007, she was seen in the BBC mini-series Cranford as Martha.

In 2010, Blakley played the role of Cynthia Lennon

Cynthia Lennon

Cynthia Lillian Lennon is the former wife of musician John Lennon, and mother of Julian Lennon. She grew up in the middle-class section of Hoylake, on the Wirral Peninsula in North West England. At the age of twelve, she was accepted into the Junior Art School, and was later enrolled in the...

 in the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 television production of Lennon Naked

Lennon Naked

Lennon Naked is a 2010 television biographical film focusing on the life of John Lennon between 1967 and 1971. It stars Christopher Eccleston as Lennon and was directed by Edmund Coulthard....

, a drama based on the period in the life of John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

 from the years 1964 to 1971.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1996	No Bananas	Sandra	TV mini-series (3 episodes)
1997	Touching Evil Touching Evil Touching Evil is a British television drama serial, which began airing in 1997. It was produced by United Productions for Anglia Television, and screened on the ITV network. The first series consisted of six fifty-minute episodes. It was created by Paul Abbott, and written by Abbott with Russell T...	Mo Morrison	TV series (2 episodes)
1999	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman	Kirsty	TV series (1 episode: "Living on Risk")
	The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...	Alice Fitzgerald	TV series (1 episode: "Denial")
2000	Never Never	Jo's Friend	TV movie
	A Christmas Carol	Ellie
	Playing the Field Playing the Field Playing the Field is a BBC television drama series following the lives of the Castlefield Blues, a fictitious female football team from South Yorkshire.-Outline:...	Kelly Powell	TV series (2 episodes)
2001	The War Bride	Rosie
	The Cat's Meow	Didi
	Gosford Park Gosford Park Gosford Park is a 2001 British-American mystery comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates, and Michael Gambon...	Mabel Nesbitt
	Mr Charity	Abi	TV series (6 episodes)
2002	Playing the Field Playing the Field Playing the Field is a BBC television drama series following the lives of the Castlefield Blues, a fictitious female football team from South Yorkshire.-Outline:...	Kelly Powell	TV series (1 episode: "Episode #5.1")
	Ed Stone is Dead Ed Stone Is Dead Ed Stone Is Dead was a 2002 BBC sitcom starring Richard Blackwood, Bill Paterson and Claudie Blakley. It centers around Ed Stone who accidentally is killed by the grim reaper Nigel and becomes half-dead....	Kate	TV series (4 episodes)
2003	Ready When You Are, Mr McGill Ready When You Are, Mr McGill Ready When You Are, Mr McGill is a feature length TV drama, written by Jack Rosenthal. ITV produced two versions, in 1976 and 2003. The 1976 version was the first in a series of six single television plays called "Red Letter Days" each of which showed the events in a single, special day in...	Deirdre
2004	He Knew He Was Right He Knew He Was Right (TV serial) He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the novel of the same name by Anthony Trollope. It was directed by Tom Vaughan.*Jenny Uglow consultant*Nigel Stafford-Clark producer-Cast:*Oliver Dimsdale - Louis Trevelyan...	Camilla French	TV mini-series
	Dirty Filthy Love Dirty Filthy Love Dirty Filthy Love is a British single television drama starring Michael Sheen as an architect living with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome....	Kathy	TV movie
2005	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Laeitia Gane	TV series (1 episode: "The Seed of Cunning")
	Pride and Prejudice	Charlotte Lucas
2006	Severance Severance (film) Severance is a British comedy horror film, written by James Moran, directed by Christopher Smith, and starring Danny Dyer and Laura Harris. In 2009, media interest in the film was revived following the alleged copycat murder of a UK teenager.-Plot:...	Jill
	Vital Signs Vital Signs (TV series) Vital Signs is a British television drama series airing on ITV from 2006. It stars Tamzin Outhwaite as a supermarket check-out operator who decides to become a doctor. The series co-stars William Beck, Fraser Ayres, Eve Best, Claudie Blakley, Lucinda Dryzek, Beth Goddard, Alfie Hunter, Brooke...	Jules Chapman	TV series (6 episodes)
	London to Brighton London to Brighton London to Brighton is a 2006 award-winning British film. The film was written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams.-Plot:The film opens with a woman and child, Kelly and Joanne, bursting into a London toilet. Joanne is crying and Kelly has a black eye...	Tracey
	Fear of Fanny	Nicky	TV movie
2007	Fallen Angel	Sally Appleton	TV mini-series
	Cranford Cranford (TV series) Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was adapted from three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858: Cranford, My Lady Ludlow, and Mr Harrison's Confessions...	Martha	TV series (4 episodes)
2008	Lark Rise to Candleford Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series) Lark Rise to Candleford is a British television costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the English countryside, published between 1939 and 1943. The first episode aired on 13 January 2008 on BBC One and BBC HD in the UK. In the...	Emma Timmins	TV series (32 episodes: 2008-2011)
2009	Return to Cranford Return to Cranford Return to Cranford is the two-part second season of a British television series directed by Simon Curtis. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was based on material from two novellas and a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1863: Cranford, The Moorland Cottage and The Cage at...	Martha	TV series (1 episode: "Part One: August 1844")
	Bright Star Bright Star (film) Bright Star is a 2009 film based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne. It stars Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny...	Maria Dilke
	Coming Up	Linda	TV series (1 episode: "Foreign John")
2010	Lennon Naked Lennon Naked Lennon Naked is a 2010 television biographical film focusing on the life of John Lennon between 1967 and 1971. It stars Christopher Eccleston as Lennon and was directed by Edmund Coulthard....	Cynthia Lennon Cynthia Lennon Cynthia Lillian Lennon is the former wife of musician John Lennon, and mother of Julian Lennon. She grew up in the middle-class section of Hoylake, on the Wirral Peninsula in North West England. At the age of twelve, she was accepted into the Junior Art School, and was later enrolled in the...	TV movie
	Marple: The Blue Geranium	Philippa Pritchard	TV movie
	The Nativity The Nativity (2010 TV series) The Nativity is a 2010 British four-part drama television series. The series is a re-telling of the nativity and was broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD across four days, starting on 20 December 2010....	Anna Anna (Bible) Anna or Anna the Prophetess was a biblical figure mentioned only in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an aged Jewish prophetess who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in in the episode of the presentation of Jesus at the Temple.While Luke gave some...	TV series (3 episodes)
2011	The Night Watch	Nancy	TV movie

Theatre

Year	Production	Role	Venue	Awards
1995	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead	Ophelia	Royal National Theatre
1997	Peter Pan	Wendy	Royal National Theatre
1998	The Seagull	Nina	West Yorkshire Playhouse	Ian Charleson Award - Best Actress 1998
	The Tempest	Miranda	West Yorkshire Playhouse
	Present Laughter	Daphne	West Yorkshire Playhouse
1999	Three Sisters	Masha	UK Tour
2000	Billy and the Crab Lady	Kat	Soho Theatre
	The Good Samaritan		Hampstead Theatre
2002	Kosher Harry		Royal Court Theatre
2003	The Lady from the Sea	Bollette	Almeida Theatre
	Random	Bee	Royal Court Theatre
	Alls Well That Ends Well	Helena	RSC (Stratford/London)
2004	A Girl in a Car with a Man	Stella	Royal Court Theatre
2005	Lear	Bodice	Sheffield Crucible Theatre
2006	The Little Mermaid	Voice	Little Angel Theatre
	Love and Money	Val/Debbie/4	Royal Exchange Theatre/Young Vic Theatre
2007	Attempts on Her Life		Royal National Theatre
2011	The Cherry Orchard	Varya	Royal National Theatre
2011	Di and Viv and Rose	Rose	Hampstead Downstairs (Hampstead Theatre)

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Format	Notes
2000	Poppy Q	Anita	BBC Radio 3
2002	Waterloo Bridge		BBC Radio 4
2003	Ring Around the Bath	Alison	BBC Radio 4
2004	Suspicious Minds		BBC Radio 4

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