Sophie Russell

Ensemble productions: Audrey in As You Like It, Abbess in The Comedy of Errors, Plump Woman/Woman in Beret in The Drunks, Fool in King Lear, Octavia in Antony and Cleopatra.

Trained: Middlesex University, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Techniques du Theatre, Paris.

Theatre includes: The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic); Spyski! (Peepolykus/Lyric Hammersmith); The Crock of Gold, Metamorphosis, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Tinderbox (London Bubble); The Chaingang Gang, Meat and Two Veg, The Ratcatcher of Hamelin (Cartoon de Salvo/BAC); Invisible Town (National Theatre Studio); The Bitches’ Ball (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh); Great Expectations (Shifting Sands Theatre Co.); Oliver Twist (International tour); I Am Dandy (David Gale Ensemble); Cinderella (Palace, Westcliff); A Christmas Carol (Palace, Newark).

Television: Wire in the Blood

About me:

• I'm very pleased to have introduced tap dancing into Shakespeare. Tap dancing nuns, in fact.