Flora Spencer-Longhurst


Flora Spencer-Longhurst is an English actress. She is known for her roles in the CBBC series Leonardo, and the FX series The Bastard Executioner.

Early life

Spencer-Longhurst joined the National Youth Music Theatre at age eleven, and subsequently studied at Manchester University.

Career

Spencer-Longhurst made her television debut in 2005 in the BBC television series Dalziel and Pascoe. Her professional stage debut was in 2007 at the Young Vic Theatre in a critically acclaimed production of The Member of the Wedding where she played the part of Frankie Addams. She played Rosalie in the Lillian Helman play The Children's Hour at The Royal Exchange Theatre, Cecily in a musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and had also performed the role of Belle in a stage version of A Christmas Carol at the King's Head Theatre. In addition, she had roles as Reza in the West End production of the musical Once and Lavinia in Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe.
In 2011, she played the dual role of Lisa and Tomaso in the CBBC series Leonardo where she played the part of a girl disguised as an apprentice male artist. Other roles in television included Losing It with Martin Clunes, and the 2006 pilot episode of Lewis. Her motion picture debut Walking with the Enemy had won her a Best Supporting Actress award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and was released in April 2014. She has also appeared in Wallander, Unforgiven, "Father Brown", and Walking with the Enemy.

Acting credits

Film and television

Dalziel and Pascoe "Dust Thou Art" – Lisa JohnstoneLewis – Jessica PollockLosing It – Erica MacNaughtonThe Family Man – ChloeThe Afternoon Play "The Real Deal" – Laura FisherWallander "One Step Behind" – IsaUnforgiven – Emily BelcombeComedy Showcase "Chickens" – GracieTaken – Jill MaineLeonardo – Lisa/Tomaso/TomFather Brown "The Face of Death" – Lucia GallowayBeautiful Relics Walking with the Enemy – Rachel SchoenThe Bastard Executioner – Baroness Lowry "Love" Aberffraw VentrisOasis - BeaMidsomer Murders "The Curse of the Ninth" - Natalie WheelerThe Irish Connection - Alice Baker

Theatre

Member of the Wedding 2007 – Frankie AddamsGhosts 2008 – Regina EngstrandGirl With a Pearl Earring 2008 – Cornelia VermeerThe Children's Hour 2008 – Rosalie WellsA Christmas Carol 2009 – BelleThe Beggar's Opera 2011 – Polly PeachamThe Importance of Being Earnest 2011 – Cecily CardewOnce 2013 – RezaTitus Andronicus 2014 – Lavinia