Young British actresses to watch

Yasmin Paige

Best known so far for Richard Ayoade’s directorial debut Submarine, Paige’s career has frequently bounced between TV, film and theatre. Last seen in the E4 drama Glue and in Ayoade’s second feature film The Double alongside Jessie Eisenberg, Paige is a magnet for more left field offerings. Expect her to be a shoe-in for a future Wes Anderson/Tarantino project.

Florence Pugh

Earning a best British newcomer nomination at the London Film Festival last year for her part in Carol Morley’s The Falling opposite Maisie Williams, Pugh is already winning fans in high places. In an interview with the Independent, Morley commented: “After you [Pugh] left the room I said, ‘Oh wow’. All the casting people were really quiet and they all went, ‘We’ve got goosebumps; that was like a young Kate Winslet walking into the room’.”

Morfydd Clark

Whit Stillman’s upcoming “Love And Friendship” might be most exciting as a “Last Days Of Disco” reunion between the writer/director, Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny, but this Jane Austen adaptation looks to be a big launching pad for one of the young British actresses we’re tipping here, Morfydd Clark. Since the Welsh actress left drama school two years ago, she’s been extremely busy, initially coming to our attention as a teacher in Carol Morley’s “The Falling.” Since then, she’s wowed on stage in London in “Violence & Son,” and will seen as Mr. Darcy’s sister in the upcoming “Pride & Prejudice & Zombies” with Lily James and Matt Smith. Stillman’s more traditional, zombie-free Austen adaptation might be her biggest breakthough, with Clark playing Beckinsale’s character’s daughter. Brit List-topping sci-fi “The Call Up” is also on her dance card, meaning she’ll be near-omnipresent in 2016.

Phoebe Fox 

Following her training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art  in 2010 Fox appeared in A Month in the Country at Chichester Festival Theatre. The following year she starred in As You Like It at the Rose Theatre, The Acid Test at the Royal Court Theatre upstairs and There Is A War at the National Theatre as part of their Double Feature in the Paintframe. Based on these performances she was nominated for the 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer.

In 2012, Fox appeared as Grace in Switch, a TV series about witches living in a city. In 2014 she appeared in The Musketeers as the Duchess of Savoy; in A Poet in New York as Liz Reitell, and also as Eve Perkins in The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death.

In 2015, Fox starred as Vanessa Bell in Life in Squares, a BBC drama about the Bloomsbury Group and in the thriller film Eye in the Sky.

Sophie Hopkins

Sophie Lisa Hopkins in Sinagpore. Sophie grew up in East Yorkshire, attending York College (City of York) where she studied Performing Arts and Musical Theatre.

Sophie moved to London in 2010 to train with Repertory Theatre company Fourth Monkey.

Since then she has worked for ITV, BBC, The Discovery Channel U.S and is currently appearing in BBC's Doctor Who spin-off titled 'Class'.