Perdita Weeks
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 19.657 |
Birthday | 1985-12-25 |
Place of Birth | Cardiff, Wales |
Also Known As |
2004
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
6.4/36
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....
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
1996
The Cold Light of Day
4.9/18
A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.
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The Cold Light of Day
2014
As Above, So Below
6.702/3370
When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones that lies beneath the streets of Paris, they embark on a journey into madness and t...
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As Above, So Below
2013
The Invisible Woman
5.911/189
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 Te...
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The Invisible Woman
1996
Hamlet
7.352/459
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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Hamlet
1996
Loving
1/1
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,...
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Loving
1997
Spice World
4.82/456
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Spice World
2018
Ready Player One
7.6/15353
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
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Ready Player One
2010
Prowl
4.9/120
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 transpor...
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Prowl
2000
The Prince and the Pauper
6.2/13
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 i...
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The Prince and the Pauper
1996
Robert Rylands' Last Journey
6.1/8
Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses th...
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