Hermione Norris

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At age 19, she enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). On an exchange to the Moscow Art Theatre School, she played Nina in a production of The Seagull.McLeod, Pauline (9 November 2002). " My cultural life: Hermione Norris". The Times (Times Newspapers).

After being out of work for four months in 1996, Norris considered quitting acting and studying for a degree in law, intending to become a solicitor. However, she got a part in Cold Feet playing Karen Marsden, a middle-class woman who feels trapped by her middle-class lifestyle. Norris appeared in every episode and was nominated for a British Comedy Award for Best Actress in 2001.Staff (16 December 2001). " Skinner crowned TV comedy king". BBC News. Retrieved 22 November 2007.

During the six years Cold Feet ran, Norris appeared in a leading role in the BBC drama Berkeley Square, Killing Time: The Millennium Poem, starring opposite Christopher Eccleston, and the 2002 television film Falling Apart, playing a woman in a violent relationship. In 2002, she co-starred with Robson Green in Wire in the Blood, playing Detective Inspector Carol Jordan. She stayed with the series until 2005 when she was replaced by Simone Lahbib. Further film roles include an appearance in an adaptation of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim, and in David Kane's Born Romantic.

At the end of 2005 she was cast in the BBC One spy fiction drama Spooks, playing Ros Myers.Kilkelly, Daniel (31 December 2005). " 'Cold Feet' star joins 'Spooks'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 22 November 2007. She appeared throughout the 2006 series, then in eight of the 10 episodes in the 2007 series before taking time off filming for maternity leave. She returned to the show for the 2008 series. For her part, she won the Best Actress award at the inaugural ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards.Rosser, Michael, (6 October 2008), " Morse author honoured at Crime Thriller Awards". Broadcastnow (Emap Media). Retrieved 7 October 2008. She was nominated in the same category the next year. She left the series in 2009 after four years.Power, Vicki (30 May 2010). " Richard Armitage: ‘I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn’t grown into’". Sunday Mirror (MGN).

From 2007 to 2009, she appeared in three series of Kingdom playing Beatrice Kingdom, the half-sister of Stephen Fry's character. She took the role as a change of pace from the "ice maiden" characters she often portrays.Wylie, Ian (2 May 2007). " Why star still gets Cold Feet over bedroom scenes". Manchester Evening News (M.E.N. Media). In 2010, she starred opposite Trevor Eve in the remake of Bouquet of Barbed Wire.Hemley, Matthew (15 October 2009). " Hermione Norris joins cast of ITV’s A Bouquet of Barbed Wire ". The Stage. In 2010, she was cast in the television science fiction drama Outcasts as Stella Isen, the head of security on an extraterrestrial human colony." Outcasts". BBC. Retrieved 2 June 2010. Filming occurred on location in South Africa. From November 2010, Norris played Ruth Condomine in a national tour of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit. She starred opposite her Cold Feet co-star Robert Bathurst, and Alison Steadman. She also starred in The Crimson Field, a British Production about a field hospital in France in WW1.

On 4 October 2014, Norris guest-starred in episode 7 of the eighth series of the BBC's Doctor Who, 'Kill The Moon'. She played Lundvik, an astronaut.

Norris also starred as Jo in the Sky1 television film television film adaptation of the M. C. Beaton novel Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death.

Norris also starred in series five of Luther on BBC One in January 2019. Later that year, she was announced as the starring cast member of Seven Network's Between Two Worlds, created by Bevan Lee and directed by Kriv Stenders.