Sophie Winkleman

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Sophie Winkleman
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Born	5 August 1981 (1981-08-05) (age 28) Image:Flag of England.svg London, England, United Kingdom

Sophie Winkleman (born 5 August 1981) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Big Suze, the on/off girlfriend of Jeremy (Robert Webb) in the offbeat Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show. She appeared in several sketches in BBC One sketch series Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul (2007), with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse.

Half-sister of TV presenter Claudia Winkleman, she was educated at City of London School for Girls and University of Cambridge, where she read English literature at Trinity Hall. She toured Britain for four months in 2001 with the university's famed dramatic society Cambridge Footlights in Far Too Happy, a comic revue she co-wrote and performed in. For the first time in twenty years, the Footlights received a Perrier award nomination. Sophie is also a member of the National Youth Theatre.

Other TV credits include parts in the Warner Bros show Chasing Alice, the Fox series Keen Eddie, ITV police dramas Lewis (a spin-off of Inspector Morse) and Poirot, BBC TV crime series Dalziel and Pascoe and Waking the Dead, the television adaptation of Zadie Smith's White Teeth and the 2007 More4 political satire The Trial of Tony Blair.

Winkleman's stage career includes a spell at the Royal Shakespeare Company where she played Veronique in Laurence Boswell's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and a summer in Bath with the Peter Hall Company playing a variety of roles including Archangela in Gallileo's Daughter, a new play by Timberlake Wertenbeker, Violet in George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman and Charlotte in Don Juan directed by Thea Sharrock.

Film appearances include The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), playing the older Susan Pevensie. The movie Natalie, scheduled for release in 2008, has Winkleman as the title role. The drama portrays the story of Natalie Encore, the sole surviving victim of a serial rapist/murderer. Natalie's maverick boyfriend is the detective on the case but harbours his own dark secrets. Autumn 2007 is also due to see Sophie shooting the movie Love Bites as the lead role of Gail, an emotionally disturbed and vulnerable young woman. 2007 also saw her complete filming of an untitled movie - with director Mike Figgis, and set amid the 2007 Gumball Rally car race - about a similarly fragile girl toying with suicide.

Winkleman is also a regular in BBC Radio 4 comedy and drama. She is among the cast of comedy programmes such as Marcus Brigstocke's Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off. In 2007 she played Anna Freud Tune in Radio 4 play "Doctor Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler", by Lawrence Marks and Maurice Gran. It portrays dictator Adolf Hitler as a patient receiving therapy. In the later months of 2007 she filmed the part of Princess Eleanor in Company Pictures' eight-part television series The Palace, to be broadcast on ITV in 2008.