KATE PHILLIPS — LINDA SHELBY FROM PEAKY BLINDERS

KATE PHILLIPS — LINDA SHELBY FROM PEAKY BLINDERS

1. Kate Phillips is a British actress.
2. Kate Phillips started her career as a model and ventured into the showbiz industry.
3. She is one of the popular actresses in the world of cinema.
4. Her hobbies include reading, photography, learning, traveling.
5. The English actress has enjoyed roles in some of the most prestigious period dramas.
6. She became famous for her role as Jane Seymour in the successful miniseries Wolf Hall (2015).
7. She subsequently appeared in the miniseries War & Peace (2016), the first season of the television series The Crown (2016), and the last three seasons of the television series Peaky Blinders.
8. In 2019, she appeared as Princess Mary in the film Downton Abbey
9. After spending three years studying at Leeds University, Philips secured a place at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
10. After graduation, she returned to Leeds to appear as Abigail Williams in The Crucible at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
11. She had already filmed her scenes for the BBC’s adaptation of Wolf Hall in which she played Jane Seymour, a role she had been offered whilst still studying at Guildhall.
12. There was some mild controversy following the initial airing of Wolf Hall after some historians described Philips as ‘too pretty’ to play Henry VIII’s third wife.
13. This criticism was disregarded by several critics who praised Philips’ performance with Screen Daily naming her as a ‘Star of Tomorrow’.
14. She went on to secure roles in War & Peace, Peaky Blinders, and The Crown.
15. She joined Peaky Blinders in 2016 in its third season
16. Phillips has also played the role of Linda Shelby on the BBC’s massively-popular crime drama Peaky Blinders.
17. With the show’s fifth season set to take her character in new directions, the period-pro actress is most certainly one to watch.
18. Her net worth is USD $500k Approximately.
19. Currently, she is working on a project called Miss Scarlet and The Duke which is an A&E production that’s going to air in the states on PBS.
20. It’s a Victorian drama about a female detective trying to make it in London in a man’s world.