Laura Greenwood
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Laura Greenwood is an English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 actress and a member of the YoungBlood Theatre Company in 2006.

Greenwood's big breakthrough came in 2006 when at age 14 she starred as Penny Philips opposite Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.-Early life and family:...

 in Prime Suspect The Final Act, the two-part conclusion to ITV's long-running series. Critics praised her work in the drama, with David Bianculli of the New York Daily News
New York Daily News
The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....

 writing, "The scenes she shares with Mirren are nothing short of phenomenal," and Robert Lloyd
Robert Lloyd
Robert Lloyd may refer to:* Robert Lloyd MP for Merioneth 1601* Robert Lloyd , British opera singer * Robert Lloyd , lead singer of British post-punk band The Nightingales...

 of the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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 calling her "thoroughly impressive."

Before her breakthrough, Greenwood had already participated in two ITV productions, the children's series My Life as a Popat
My Life as a Popat
My Life as a Popat follows the lives of an Indian family, through the eyes of their eldest son, Anand. The teenager fights a daily basis full of embarrassment. The second series brings a change to storyline, with brainbox Chetan Popat sometimes taking centre stage...

 and the drama Walk Away and I Stumble. She also had small roles in notable film productions The Brothers Grimm and V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta (film)
V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian thriller film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote the screenplay. It is an adaptation of the V for Vendetta comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd...

.

In 2008 she appeared in the ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 soap opera Echo Beach. She also made minor appearances as a fictionalized version of herself in Echo Beachs sister series, Moving Wallpaper
Moving Wallpaper
Moving Wallpaper was a British satirical comedy-drama television series set in a TV production unit. It ran on ITV for two series in 2008–2009. The subject of the first series was the production of a soap called Echo Beach, each episode of which aired directly after the Moving Wallpaper episode...

.

Greenwood also appeared in Messiah V as Leah Wallace, broadcast on BBC One in January 2008. As well as this, she would appear in another BBC-produced series, playing the one-time role of Jessica in Holby Blue. Currently, she has recently completed filming the leading role of Charlotte in the film Pinprick, directed by Daniel Young.

Filmography

  • Chris Ryan's Strike Back
    Strike Back (TV series)
    Chris Ryan's Strike Back is a six-part British television series based on the novel of the same name written by best-selling author and former soldier of the Special Air Service, Chris Ryan. It was produced by Left Bank Pictures for Sky1...

     as Alexandra Porter (2011)
  • Outcasts
    Outcasts (TV series)
    Outcasts is an eight-part 2011 British television science-fiction drama serial, starring Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Amy Manson, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Eric Mabius and Ashley Walters. It originally aired on BBC One, and BBC HD.-Plot:...

    , as Aisling (2011)
  • Kidnap and Ransom, as Tess King, ITV (2011)
  • Wonder, short film for The London Film School
  • My Life as a Popat
    My Life as a Popat
    My Life as a Popat follows the lives of an Indian family, through the eyes of their eldest son, Anand. The teenager fights a daily basis full of embarrassment. The second series brings a change to storyline, with brainbox Chetan Popat sometimes taking centre stage...

     as Holly Savior, various episodes, ITV
    ITV
    ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

     (2004)
  • V for Vendetta
    V for Vendetta (film)
    V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian thriller film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote the screenplay. It is an adaptation of the V for Vendetta comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd...

     as Sarah (2005)
  • Walk Away and I Stumble as Petra (2005)
  • The Brothers Grimm as Sasha (2005)
  • Prime Suspect: The Final Act as Penny Philips (2006)
  • The Dinner Party as Lucy (2007)
  • Napoleon
    Napoleon (2007 film)
    Napoleon is a 2007 United Kingdom television film first broadcast on BBC One on 12 November 2007. It tells the story of Napoleon's part in the Siege of Toulon in 1793....

     as Paoletta Buonaparte
    Pauline Bonaparte
    Pauline Bonaparte was the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, an imperial French Princess and the Princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI of France. Her elder brother,...

  • Echo Beach as Grace Penwarden
  • Messiah V as Leah Wallace
  • Moving Wallpaper as "Laura Greenwood"
  • Holby Blue as Jessica
  • Pinprick as Charlotte
  • 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...

     as Sarah Brewer
  • Identity as Vicky Brolin

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