British actress Sofia Miles is familiar to Russian TV viewers from such films as Tristan and Isolde, Vikings vs. Aliens, Transformers. The era of extermination”and many others. After a long break, she again began filming 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 critics and a huge army of fans of her talent.
Biography of the English actress Sophia Miles
The future TV star 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 by her husband from Russia, according to others, the girl's mother followed her husband from the Russian Federation.
The girl was brought up in severity, the family was very sensitive to Christianity. Sofia received her secondary education at a religious school, then became a college student in Richmond.
As a child, the future actress was no different from her peers. She often moved with her parents, 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, the teachers noticed that the girl was very talented. Whatever role was entrusted to her in school performances, she coped with it brilliantly. At one of these performances, she was noticed by the capital's screenwriter Fellows Julian. He gave her a kind of ticket to the world of cinema in the form of a small role in a mini-series.
Career of actress Sophia Miles
In 1996, Sofia first got on the set. She played the role of Jane Gray, the uncrowned Queen of England with a difficult, even tragic fate. But with a strong character, in a small series "The Prince and the Pauper". The atmosphere in the group, on the set, amazed and conquered the girl so much that she made the only right decision for her - to be only an actress. Since then, she literally does not leave 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 of this, and most important of them is the extensive filmography of Sofia Miles.
There were only two breaks in her career - from 2008 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018. The press associated them with the twists and turns in the actress's personal life, 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 to the film “Transformers”.
Filmography of Sofia Miles
Sofia played her first major role in cinema 6 years after her debut. But this does not mean at all that she was not invited to appear. During this period, she worked in 9 projects. Among them are such "loud" films as "Mansfield Park", "Oliver Twist", "Hotel Paradiso", "From Hell", "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby" and many others.
The list of the main roles of the actress works on the images of the following heroines:
- Ann Kennedy of the Kidnappers Club
- Louise Thompson from The Pool
- Lisa Carter from Colditz Castle Escape
- Isolde in Tristan and Isolde,
- Beth Turner from Moonlight and others.
If we talk about the minor roles of the British actress Sophia Miles, then among them it is worth highlighting, first of all, Madame de Pompadour, whom she played in the TV series Doctor Who. In this project, many famous and little-known actors were "noted", for many it became a kind of "ticket" to the world of a successful film career. Moreover, it became the longest in the history of the series, and participation in the work on it is a kind of pedestal, an indicator of professionalism.
Another "coin" in the treasury of Sofia Miles' popularity fell after her filming in the movie "From Hell". There she played Victoria Abberline, and such celebrities as Heather Graham, Johnny Depp, Jason Fleming and others became her partners on the set. In other films, she worked with James Franco, Michael Sheen, John Hurt, Teresa Palmer. From the list of directors who invited Miles to star in their films, it is worth highlighting Patricia Rosema, Chris Fisher, Charles Palmer, Stuart Orm. This is not the whole list of those who highly appreciated the professionalism of the actress.
Sophia Miles's personal life
This side of the actress's life has been closed to the press in recent years. She does not appear in public with men, does not talk about new novels or hobbies on her social media pages, refuses to discuss such topics during her rare interviews.
There were only two novels in her life that became known to journalists. The first happened in the life of the actress back in the early 2000s. The young actress at that time was carried away by the director, actor, screenwriter Charles Dance, with whom they worked on the set of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby. But this relationship was short-lived.
From 2005 to 2007, Sofia met with an actor from Scotland, Tennant David. But this union broke up, not even leading to an engagement. Since then, nothing has been known about the actress's new novels. From whom did Sofia have a son, Luke, in 2014? She does not answer this question to anyone. And it is her right not to advertise her personal life.
