British television actress Sophia Miles is familiar with Russian viewers from films such as Tristan and Isolde, Vikings vs. Aliens, Transformers, Age of Extermination, and many others. After a long break, she again began to act no less actively than before.
Sophia Miles began acting in films at the age of 16. Now in her creative piggy bank there are already more than 20 projects, in most of them she performed the roles of the main or significant heroines. The professionalism and acting skills of this woman are highly appreciated by both critics and a huge army of admirers of her talent.
Biography of the English actress Sophia Miles
The future star of television screens was born in the capital of England on March 18, 1980, in the family of a priest. Sofia is half Russian. According to some sources, her grandmother was taken out by her husband from Russia, according to others - the girl’s mother came after her husband from Russia.
The girl was brought up in severity, she was very kind to Christianity in the family. Sofia received a secondary education at a religious school, then became a college student in Richmond.
In childhood, the future actress was no different from her peers. Together with her parents, she often moved, as her father followed where the church sent him to serve. Most of the girl’s childhood and adolescence was spent in the English Isleworth, which is west of London.
Already in the elementary grades of the parish school, teachers noticed that the girl is very talented. Whatever role she was entrusted with in school performances, she coped with it brilliantly. At one of these performances, metropolitan screenwriter Fellows Julian noticed her. He gave her a kind of ticket to the world of cinema in the form of a small role in the mini-series.
Career actress Sophia Miles
In 1996, Sofia first hit the set. She played the role of Jane Gray, the uncrowned Queen of England with a difficult, even tragic fate. But a solid character, in the short series "The Prince and the Pauper." The atmosphere in the group, on the site, so impressed and subdued the girl that she made the only right decision for her - to be only an actress. Since then, she literally has not left the screens. At least two films with her participation are released annually.
The role of the actress is not limited to any one direction. She looks equally harmonious in comedy, drama, and science fiction. And there are many confirmations for this, and most important of them is the extensive filmography of Sophia Miles.
In her career there were only two breaks - from 2008 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018. The press associated them with the ups and downs in the personal life of the actress, but Sofia herself refused to talk about the reasons. She is reluctant to discuss this side of her life with reporters.
Now Miles is actively filming again, in a new round of her career there are "long-playing" roles - she plays one of the heroines of the sequels of the movie "Transformers".
Filmography Sophia Miles
Sofia played her first major role in the movie 6 years after her debut. But this does not mean that she was not invited to appear. During this period, she worked in 9 projects. Among them are such “high-profile” paintings as “Mansfield Park”, “Oliver Twist”, “Hotel Paradiso”, “From Hell”, “Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby” and many others.
The list of the main roles of the actress working on the images of the following heroines:
- Anne Kennedy of The Thieves' Club
- Louise Thompson from Omut,
- Lisa Carter from "Escape from Colditz Castle",
- Isolda in Tristan and Isolda,
- Bet Turner from Moonlight and others.
If we talk about the secondary roles of the British actress Sophia Miles, then of them it is worth highlighting, first of all, Madame de Pompadour, which she played in the series "Doctor Who". In this project, many well-known and little-known actors were noted, for many it became a kind of "ticket" to the world of a successful movie career. Moreover, it has become the longest in the history of series, and participation in work on it is a kind of pedestal, an indicator of professionalism.
Another "coin" in the piggy bank of popularity of Sophia Miles fell after her filming in the movie "From Hell". There she played Victoria Ebberline, and celebrities such as Heather Graham, Johnny Depp, Jason Fleming and others became her partners on the set. In other paintings, she worked with James Franco, Michael Sheen, John Hurt, Theresa Palmer. From the list of directors who invited Miles to star in their films, it is worth highlighting Patricia Rosem, Chris Fisher, Charles Palmer, Stuart Orme. This is not the whole list of those who praised the professionalism of the actress.
