Lydia Wilson


Lydia Wilson is an English-American actress. Since graduating in 2009 from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she has performed in numerous television and theatre productions including the Olivier Award-winning Blasted by Sarah Kane in 2010 at the Lyric Theatre, and as Kate Middleton in the Olivier Award winning King Charles III at the Almeida Theatre, Wyndham's Theatre and Music Box Theatre on Broadway.

Early life

Wilson was born to an American mother, who was an ex-model turned philosophy teacher, and to an English advertising executive father, and was brought up in Queen's Park, Kilburn, London. She has said that her acting ambitions came from her grandparents, who were stage actors from New York. She attended Henrietta Barnett School, a state Grammar school in Hampstead Garden Suburb. After completing a foundation course at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, she graduated with an English degree from Queens' College, Cambridge, then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), graduating with a degree in Acting in 2009.

Career

Wilson made her film debut in the alternative history romance drama Never Let Me Go. In 2014, she was included in the London Evening Standard list of the 1,000 most influential Londoners.

Filmography

Theatre

House of Special Purpose as MariaPains of Youth as DesireeBlasted as CateThe Heretic The Acid Test as Jessica'Tis Pity She's a Whore as AnnabellaHysteria as JessicaKing Charles III as Kate, Duchess of Cambridge Olivier Award Nomination for Best Supporting ActressThe Duchess of Malfi as The DuchessWalden as CassieThe 47th as Ivanka Trump

Radio

A Tale of Two Cities as Lucie ManetteAn American Rose as Kathleen KennedyThe Bell Jar as narratorThe Exorcist as Regan MacNeilThe Letters of Sylvia Plath as Sylvia PlathBlack Water, An American Story as Kelly, Nominated for Best Actress, BBC Audio Awards