SOPHIE RUNDLE — ADA SHELBY FROM PEAKY BLINDERS

SOPHIE RUNDLE — ADA SHELBY FROM PEAKY BLINDERS

1. Sophie Rundle is an English actress born on 21 April 1988.
2. Rundle was born in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; now she is 32.
3. She attended the Bournemouth School for Girls.
4. In 2011, Rundle graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree in Acting.
5. Sophie Rundle is engaged to actor Matt Stokoe, whom she met on the set of Jamestown.
6. Rundle first started her career in the British horror comedy film Small Town Folk in 2007 opposite Warwick Davis.
7. In 2012, she starred in the ITV four-part television miniseries period drama, Titanic, created by producer Nigel Stafford-Clark and written by Julian Fellowes.
8. Also in 2012, Rundle appeared in Great Expectations directed by Mike Newell. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the UK on 30 November 2012.
9. She is best known for portraying Ada Shelby in the BBC One historical crime drama television series Peaky Blinders.
10. Ada is from the criminal Gypsy family the Shelbys. She is the daughter of Arthur Shelby Sr. and the only female of the Shelby siblings.
11. Her best-known roles also include Ann Walker in BBC One and HBO’s period drama Gentleman Jack, Vicky Budd in the BBC television series Bodyguard, code-breaker Lucy in the ITV drama series The Bletchley Circle, and Labia in the British/American television sitcom Episodes.
12. Rundle played the lead role of Fiona Griffiths, a young detective constable in the Sky Living two-part crime series Talking to the Dead, based on the eponymous novel by Harry Bingham. It was adapted by Golden Globe Award-nominee Gwyneth Hughes.
13. She also acted as Alice in Sky One’s 2017 drama Jamestown.
14. Rundle also portrayed Honoria Barbary in BBC’s 20-part Dickensian, a reworking of an ensemble of characters created by Charles Dickens, which aired on BBC One on 26 December 2015.
15. In 2019, Rundle portrayed Princess Diana in an episode of the Sky Arts’ Urban Myths series, with David Avery as Freddie Mercury and Mathew Baynton as Kenny Everett.
16. In 2020, Rundle starred alongside Martin Compston in BBC One show, The Nest, a five-part psychological drama about a husband and wife who meet an 18-year-old girl who agrees to be their surrogate after years of trying for a baby.