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Hermione Norris
Norris in 2012
Born	(1967-02-12)12 February 1967 (age 58) Paddington, London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1989–present
Spouse	Simon Wheeler ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	2

Hermione Norris is an English actress. She attended theLondon Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the 1980s, before taking small roles in theatre and on television. In 1996, she was cast in her breakout role of Karen Marsden in the comedy drama television seriesCold Feet. She appeared in every episode of the series from 1998 to 2003 and was nominated for aBritish Comedy Award.

From 2002 to 2005, Norris co-starred in the crime drama seriesWire in the Blood as Carol Jordan, and from 2005 to 2009 co-starred in theBBC One spy dramaSpooks asRos Myers. Her role inSpooks won her the award for Best Actress at the 2008ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards, and another nomination the next year. From 2007 to 2009, she co-starred in the ITV comedy dramaKingdom. In 2020, she appeared in the Australian thriller seriesBetween Two Worlds.

Norris was born inPaddington, London, the second of four children. She has two sisters, a brother and two half-sisters.^[1] Her parents, businessman Michael andhealth visitor Helen Norris (née Latham), divorced when she was four years old.^[1] She moved with her mother and siblings to live with her grandmother inDerbyshire, but moved back to London a few years later. At age 12, she decided that she wanted to be a ballerina and won a scholarship at theElmhurst School for Dance.^[1] While there, she took up drama at an after-school club, performing alongside her dance studies until she left aged 17.^{[citation needed]}

At age 19, she enrolled at theLondon Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). On an exchange to theMoscow Art Theatre School, she played Nina in a production ofThe Seagull.^[2]

Norris made her professional stage debut in a 1989 production ofA Midsummer Night's Dream, which earned her herEquity card. She made her television debut in the 1991 BBC serialThe Men's Room, playing the daughter ofBill Nighy's character.^[3] Other early television roles include appearances inAgatha Christie's Poirot, the television serialClarissa, and a 1991 episode ofDrop the Dead Donkey. She continued to make guest appearances in series such asBetween the Lines andCasualty. In 1995 she played Helen in theRoyal Exchange, Manchester's production ofLook Back in Anger.

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.^[4] However, she got a part inCold Feet playing Karen Marsden, a middle-class woman who feels trapped by her middle-class lifestyle.^[4] Norris appeared in every episode and was nominated for aBritish Comedy Award for Best Actress in 2001.^[5]

During the six yearsCold Feet ran, Norris appeared in a leading role in the BBC dramaBerkeley Square,Killing Time: The Millennium Poem, starring oppositeChristopher Eccleston, and the 2002 television filmFalling Apart, playing a woman in aviolent relationship. In 2002, she co-starred withRobson Green inWire in the Blood, playingDetective Inspector Carol Jordan. She stayed with the series until 2005 when she was replaced bySimone Lahbib. Further film roles include an appearance in an adaptation ofKingsley Amis'sLucky Jim, and in David Kane'sBorn Romantic.

At the end of 2005 she was cast in theBBC Onespy dramaSpooks, playing Ros Myers.^[6] 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 inauguralITV3 Crime Thriller Awards.^[7] She was nominated in the same category the next year.^[8] She left the series in 2009 after four years.^[9]

From 2007 to 2009, she appeared in three series ofKingdom playing Beatrice Kingdom, the half-sister ofStephen Fry's character. She took the role as a change of pace from the "ice maiden" characters she often portrays.^[10] In 2010, she starred oppositeTrevor Eve in the remake ofBouquet of Barbed Wire.^[11] In 2010, she was cast in the television science fiction dramaOutcasts as Stella Isen, the head of security on an extraterrestrial human colony.^[12] Filming occurred on location in South Africa. From November 2010, Norris played Ruth Condomine in a national tour ofNoël Coward'sBlithe Spirit. She starred opposite herCold Feet co-starRobert Bathurst, andAlison 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'sDoctor Who, 'Kill The Moon'. She played Lundvik, an astronaut.

Norris also starred as Jo in theSky1 television filmtelevision film adaptation of theM. C. Beaton novelAgatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death.

Norris also starred in series five ofLuther on BBC One in January 2019. Later that year, she was announced as the starring cast member ofSeven Network'sBetween Two Worlds, created byBevan Lee and directed byKriv Stenders.^[13][14]

In 2002, Norris began a relationship withSimon Wheeler, a writer onWire in the Blood. The couple married in December 2002 in a ceremony at theTower of London.^[4] They have two children.^[15] Norris's father-in-law is General SirRoger Wheeler, theChief of the General Staff from 1997 to 2000.^[16]

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