Bessie Carter is an English actress, known for her roles in the television series Howards End (2017), Beecham House (2019) and Bridgerton (2020).
Wiki/Biography
Bessie Carter was born on Monday, October 25, 1993 (26 years old in 2019) in London, England. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Childhood photo of Jesse Carter with her parents
She attended Francis Holland School and later moved to Camden Girls’ School in London, where she completed her high school education. She studied drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
appearance
Height: 5′ 10″
Eye Color: Blue
Hair color: Brown
Family and Race
She is the daughter of famous British actors Imelda Staunton (CBE, best known for her role as Dolores Jane Umbridge in the Harry Potter series) and Jim Carter (OBE, OBE).
Bessie Carter and her parents
She is a lesbian and her girlfriend is named Leonie Benesch.
Bessie Carter discusses her sexuality and her girlfriend in an Instagram post
Bessie Carter and her girlfriend
Profession
In 2007, she made her debut in the TV series Cranford as ‘Margaret Kidman’, with her parents Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter playing the roles of ‘Captain Brown’ and ‘Miss Octavia Pole’ respectively.
She rose to fame with the role of “Evie Wilcox” in the TV series “Hogwarts House” (2017).
Bessie Carter, Hogwarts (2017)
She has also appeared in the TV series Doc Martin (2017), Beecham House (2019), and Bridgerton (2020). In 2012, she made her screen debut as Ensemble Factory Woman in the film Les Misérables.
Bessie Carter in a scene from Les Misérables (2012)
She has also appeared in the films Oil (2018), The Good Liar (2019), Two (2020) and Emergence (2020). She made her theatre debut as Marianne in The Secret Rapture (2015) at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Bessie Carter in a scene from The Secret Rapture (2015)
She has appeared in the plays Lulu (2015), King Lear (2016), The Baskervilles (2018) and All My Sons (2019).
Facts/Trivia
- She enjoys reading scripts and travelling; she is also interested in cricket and horse riding.
- She has loved performing since she was a child and has participated in school drama performances.
- In 2016, she won the Spotlight Award for Best Screen Actor.
- She didn’t like going to school and almost wanted to drop out, but her father insisted that she go to school and complete her basic education. Talking about her studies, she said,
I was just hanging out in school. I was like, “I know what I want to do, why am I sitting in school doing something I don’t like?” At 16, I was going to drop out of school, and my mom was very supportive, but my dad said I should finish school because if I dropped out, I would regret it. I had an agent since I was 13 and worked two TV jobs while in school, mostly to get out of school, not for acting.
- After graduating from high school, she took a year off and worked as an assistant stage manager, stage manager, and traveled. After returning to China, she was admitted to a drama school.
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