Acting
Dec 24, 1985
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Perdita Weeks
Acting
Biography
Perdita Weeks (born 25 December 1985) is a Welsh actress. Perdita was born in South Glamorgan, educated at Roedean School and studied art history at the Courtauld Institute. She is the younger sister of Honeysuckle Weeks and the older sister of Rollo Weeks. She portrayed Mary Boleyn (King Henry VIII's sister-in-law) in the Showtime drama The Tudors (2007). In 2008 she appeared as Lydia Bennet in the ITV series Lost In Austen. She played a murdering teen in the Death and Dreams episode of Midsomer Murders in 2003. She has worked on productions such as Stig of the Dump (2002), Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking(2004), and Miss Potter (2006) (but was cut from the latter) and played the role of Kitten (daughter of a rock star) in an episode of Lewis—"Counter Culture Blues" (2009). In 2007 she appeared in the radio comedy Bleak Expectations. In 2011 she appeared in the TV miniseries The Promise. She is the sister of actors Honeysuckle Weeks, to whom she bears a strong resemblance, and Rollo Weeks; she co-starred with the former in Goggle Eyes (1993) and Catherine Cookson's The Rag Nymph (1997), in which she played the younger version of her sister's character. She stars also in the 2010 Horror film Prowl.
Feature Films (13)
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.
The Cold Light of Day
When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
As Above, So Below
Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses the return of a very popular man there.
Robert Rylands' Last Journey
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.
The Invisible Woman
An upper class English family owns a villa in the Irish countryside. When the man of the house leaves to fight in WW2, his mother, wife, dying butler, maid and other staff's life becomes a bit hectic and some love affairs start to bloom.
Loving
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Hamlet
World-famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double-decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.
Spice World
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
Ready Player One
Amber dreams of escaping her small town existence and persuades her friends to accompany her to find an apartment in the big city. When their transportation breaks down, she and her friends gratefully accept a ride in the back of a semi. But when the driver refuses to stop and they discover the cargo is hundreds of cartons of blood, they panic. Their panic turns to terror when the truck disgorges them into a dark, abandoned warehouse where blood-thirsty creatures learn to hunt human prey, which, the friends realize, is what they now are... Written by Svetlio Svilenov
Prowl
An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Canty, two amazing look-alikes caught up in imperial intrigue and scandal. In fleeing from his violent father, Tom stumbles into the palace courtyard, and is seen by young Prince Edward, who takes him in. Each desiring to see what the other's life is like, the boys impulsively switch identities... little knowing what disaster lies ahead at this fault of thought. And soon Thomas becomes a pawn in the hands of Edward's malicious and greedy uncle, who would have the kingdom for himself.
The Prince and the Pauper
A treasure-hunting mastermind assembles a team for a life-changing adventure. But to outwit and outrun threats at every turn, he'll need someone even smarter than he is: his estranged sister.
Fountain of Youth
Television & Series (20)
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Midsomer Murders
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Lewis
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
The Tudors
It’s 1854 and ten-year-old Millie is taken in by ‘Raggie Aggie’ after her mother dies in a Newcastle brothel. The spirited young Millie is exposed again to the corrupting influences of the streets of Newcastle.
The Rag Nymph
In 1912, 1,316 passengers, from poor emigrants looking for new life in America to some of the world's wealthiest people, boarded the RMS Titanic for her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. Events unfold through the points of view of those aboard, from first class to steerage, as the early jubilant mood turns dark and the passengers are shaken from their private worlds of secrets, love and resentment. The individual stories come together in a playing field levelled by disaster as everyone struggles to survive, leaving the lives of those involved forever changed.
