Nell Hudson in 2018 | |
| Born | 19 November 1990 (age 30) Worcestershire, England |
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| Alma mater | Oxford School of Drama |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Relatives | Cressida Connolly Cyril Connolly |
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Nell Rose Hudson (born 19 November 1990) is an English actress best known for her recurring roles as Laoghaire MacKenzie in the Starz television drama Outlander and Nancy Skerrett in the ITV period drama Victoria.
Nell Hudson, Actress: Victoria. Nell Hudson is an actress and producer, known for Victoria (2016), Outlander (2014) and Petal.
- Nell Rose Hudson (born 19 November 1990) is an English actress best known for her recurring roles as Laoghaire MacKenzie in the Starz television drama Outlander.
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Early life[edit]
Hudson was born on 19 November 1990 in a small village in West Midlands, England. She is the daughter of journalist and author Cressida Connolly[1] and Charles Hudson, of Wyke Manor. Cressida, who has written for Vogue, The Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and The Guardian,[2] is the daughter of author Cyril Connolly, and great-granddaughter of James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon;[3] she was previously married to Sunday Times and Tatler writer and critic AA Gill. James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon was married to Cecil Craig, Viscountess Craigavon, a great-great-granddaughter of John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who were also the great-great-great grandparents of Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, mother of Elizabeth II. As such, Nell Hudson and Elizabeth II are fourth cousins, twice-removed. Charles Hudson, the son of Rosalind Hudson, was formerly the chairman of the Conservative Association of the South Worcestershire constituency.[4]
The middle of three children, Hudson decided, as a teenager, to pursue acting.[5] Hudson attended the Oxford School of Drama, performing in plays such as The Crucible and Closer, eventually graduating with a degree in acting.[6][5] Her sister, Violet, is a journalist and writer who has written for The Daily Telegraph, the Spectator[7] and Tatler.[8] Early in her career, Nell Hudson was regularly featured in the Tatler List.[9]
Career[edit]
Hudson's first professional role, in 2012, was a guest spot in an episode of the fifteenth series of the BBC Onemedical dramaHolby City.[10][11] Later that year she appeared in Garrick Hamm's short film Cast Offs and director Bruce Logan's short Les Bohemes.[11][12] In 2014, she landed the role of Laoghaire MacKenzie in Starz's time travel drama Outlander, based upon Diana Gabaldon's best-selling book series.[13] The character is recurring and will continue throughout the series. On her character during the series' mid-season episode, Hudson stated that 'when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger… I think that's quite a human characteristic, basically, and I think that's definitely what happens is that she's [Laoghaire] got all this pain and she doesn't know what to do with it and it comes out in this very kind of aggressive way and she does whatever she can do to rectify the situation.'[14]
Hudson guest-starred as Paulette Roland, a 17-year-old diabetic who discovers that she is pregnant, in series four of the BBC medical period drama Call the Midwife. The episode, which aired on 22 February 2015, explores the character's struggle with the possibility of either a dangerous pregnancy or a legal abortion.[15] That same year she guest starred in NBC's international crime drama Crossing Lines.[16] On 14 May 2015, Hudson played Lydia Bennet in Tamara Harvey's production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice at the Sheffield Crucible, alongside James Northcote and Isabella Laughland.[17][18]
In 2016, Hudson was featured in a series one episode of Sky1's amateur detective series Agatha Raisin, based upon the book series by MC Beaton.[19] Hudson also appears in ITV's Victoria, a period drama centering on the life of British monarch Queen Victoria.[20] She portrays Nancy Skerrett, the Queen's dresser, in the ongoing series.[21]
BBC's drama Informer (2018), about police informants, sees Hudson in the role of Charlotte Humphreys, an art student and potential love interest to main character Raza.[22]
Personal life[edit]
Hudson is a singer-songwriter. She appeared with Jools Holland on 14 and 15 May 2014.[20][21]
Her debut novel, a story of friendship amid loss titled Just For Today, is slated to be released in early 2022 through Tinder Press.[23]
Filmography[edit]
Television[edit]
| Year | Title | Character | Production | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Holby City | Tasha Cairncross | BBC One | Episode: 'And We Banish Shade' |
| 2014–Present | Outlander | Laoghaire MacKenzie | Starz | Recurring role, 9 episodes |
| 2015 | Call the Midwife | Paulette Roland | BBC | Episode: '4.6' |
| 2015 | Crossing Lines | Aurelia Roche | NBC | Episode: 'In loco Parentis' |
| 2016 | Agatha Raisin | Kylie Stokes | Sky1 | Episode: 'The Day the Floods Came' |
| 2016-2019 | Victoria | Nancy Skerrett | ITV | Recurring role, 21 episodes |
| 2018 | Informer | Charlotte Humphries | BBC | Miniseries |
| 2020 | Death in Paradise | Tabitha Brown | Red Planet Pictures | Episode: 9.1 'La Murder Le Diablé' |
Film[edit]
| Year | Title | Character | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Cast Offs | Young Girl | Short film |
| 2013 | Les Bohemes | Michele | Short film |
| 2016 | Arrivals | Angel |
Theatre[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Theatre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Pride and Prejudice | Lydia Bennett | Tamara Harvey | Sheffield Crucible |
Awards and Nominations[edit]
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Satellite Awards | Best Ensemble (Television) | Outlander[24] | Won |
References[edit]
- ^'World of Cressida Connolly, writer'. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^'Biography of Cressida Connolly'. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^'Cressida Louisa Vernon Connolly - The Peerage'. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^'A tale of one squire and his confetti field'. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ ab'Nell Hudson, star of 'Victoria' and 'Outlander' dishes on life and work - StarsAndCelebs.com'. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^'Five Things You Need To Know About Outlander's Nell Hudson'. Harper's Bazaar UK. 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ^'Violet Hudson - The Article'. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^'Selfridges' No-Noise Project - Review'. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^'Nell Hudson - Tatler'. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^'Holby City - And We Banish Shade'. BBC. 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ^ ab'Starz's Outlander Series Casts Its Laoghaire MacKenzie (Exclusive)'. Access Online. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^Kreindler, Sarv. 'Behind the Scenes of Sony's Short Film 'Les Bohemes''. Creative Planet Network. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^'Starz's Outlander series casts its Laoghaire MacKenzie (Exclusive)'. Access Hollywood. 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ^''Outlander': Nell Hudson on heartbroken Laoghaire'. Access Hollywood. 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
- ^''Call the Midwife' Season 4 Episode 6 review'. Cultbox. 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^TV.com. 'Crossing Lines: Dragon'. TV.com. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^'First look at the cast of Pride and Prejudice at Sheffield Crucible'. What's on Stage. 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^'Full Casting Announced For Pride & Prejudice'. Sheffield Theatres. 2015. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^'Agatha Raisin - S1 - Episode 6: The Day the Floods Came'. Radio Times. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- ^ ab'Nell Hudson says filming Victoria was like an eight-month long school trip'. Evening Standard. 22 August 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- ^ abWelch, Tricia (4 September 2017). 'Victoria star Nell Hudson on fashion secrets: My favourite decade is the 70s'. Express.co.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^'Meet the cast of BBC1 thriller Informer'. Radio Times. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- ^'Actress Hudson's debut lights up Tinder | The Bookseller'. www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ACADEMY, INTERNATIONAL PRESS. 'Nominations for the 21st Annual International Press Academy Satellite™ Awards'. www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
External links[edit]
- Nell Hudson on IMDb
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Nancy Skerrett Wiki
Marianne Skerrett attributed to Dr. Ernest Becker, circa 1859; Credit – Royal Collection Trust
Read about others who served Queen Victoria at Unofficial Royalty: Queen Victoria’s Inner Circle Index.
Marianne Skerrett was the Head Dresser and Wardrobe-Woman to Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1862.
Marianne Skerrett was the daughter of a British Army officer who owned a plantation in Bermuda. Her uncle had been sub-treasurer to Queen Charlotte, Victoria’s paternal grandmother. Her great-grandfather William Popple had been a Governor of Bermuda. Marianne was born in 1793, so she was 44-years-old when the 18-year-old Victoria became queen. She was very intelligent, extremely well-read and fluent in Danish, French, and German. Recommended to Queen Victoria by Louisa Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, a Lady of the Bedchamber, Marianne became one of Queen Victoria’s two dressers in 1837 and eventually became head dresser.
As the head dresser, Marianne, who was called Skerrett by Queen Victoria, was responsible for Victoria’s wardrobe. She oversaw the ordering of all the queen’s clothing, shoes, hats, gloves, and undergarments. In addition, Marianne kept the wardrobe accounts and was diligent in checking all the bills to make sure no one tried to cheat Victoria. She was also responsible for supervising the hairdressers, dressmakers, and the seamstresses who kept the royal wardrobe in good repair.
Marianne and Victoria had a lot in common. They were both intelligent, loved animals, spoke several languages, read and discussed books, and shared an interest in paintings and painters. Victoria would come to rely on Marianne to help with the purchase of paintings and in corresponding with artists. After the departure in 1842 of Baroness Louise Lehzen, Victoria’s former governess and then advisor and companion, Marianne took on some of her duties, becoming somewhat of a secretary and doing whatever Victoria needed her to do.
After 25 years of serving Queen Victoria, Marianne retired in 1862 at the age of 69. She was anxious to return to the world beyond the palace walls. She wrote about her retirement, “This year I shall hope and trust to be able to say and do to a certain extent what I have so long been wanting to do…” Marianne received a pension of £70 and went to live with her sister in the Marylebone section of London.
Marianne Skerrett by Rosa Koberwein, 1880; Credit – Royal Collection Trust
Marianne Skerrett remained in contact with Queen Victoria, visiting her and writing to her, until her death in 1887 at the age of 94. She bequeathed to Queen Victoria a painting by the British painter William Hogarth, The Popple and Ashley Families, a colonial family in Bermuda, one of which had been Marianne’s grandmother (the child in the painting). The painting is currently in the Royal Collection. Upon hearing that Marianne Skerrett had died Queen Victoria wrote in her journal: “She came to me at my accession, & was most useful at the head of my Wardrobe, ordering everything, looking over my bills, &c, & arranging with the different artists. She was quite a superior person, very clever, read enormously, had an intense passion for animals, & was a great friend of Landseer’s, & of many of the artists.”
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The Popple and Ashley Families by William Hogarth; Credit – Royal Collection Trust
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Works Cited
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- Baird, Julia. Victoria The Queen. Random House, 2016.
- Erickson, Carolly. Her Little Majesty: The Life of Queen Victoria.Simon and Schuster, 1997.
- Hubbard, Kate. Serving Victoria: Life In The Royal Household. Harper Collins Publishers, 2012.