Hermione Norris (born February 1967) is an English actress. She attended the London 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 series Cold Feet. She appeared in every episode of the series from 1998 to 2003 and was nominated for a British Comedy Award.From 2002 to 2005, Norris co-starred in the crime drama series Wire in the Blood as Carol Jordan, and from 2005 to 2009 co-starred in the BBC One spy drama Spooks as Ros Myers. Her role in Spooks won her the award for Best Actress at the 2008 ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards, and another nomination the next year. From 2007 to 2009, she co-starred in the ITV comedy drama Kingdom.
Although her Cold Feet (1997) character Karen was the 1st of the 3 female leads to become a mother, Norris was the last to become a mother in real life. She had her 1st child in 2004 after the series ended, whilst Helen Baxendale had her 1st child in 1998 and Fay Ripley had her 1st child in 2002.
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 40, a daughter Hero Wheeler in August 2007. Child's father is her husband, Simon Wheeler.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 37, a son Wilfred Simon Wheeler in June 2004. Child's father is her husband, Simon Wheeler.
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Once expressed surprise at how her career has turned out. She tends to be cast as well-spoken, middle-class women even though she is initially from Essex. She puts it down to her LAMDA training and her name, Hermione.
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One of her chief annoyances used to be that people never knew how to pronounce her first name. She expressed relief when the first Harry Potter film was released as she hoped people might start getting her name right as the female child lead is also called Hermione.
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Her father died when she was 21.
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Husband, Simon Wheeler, is head of Development at TV Production company Coastal.
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Initially trained as a dancer.
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Parents split up when she was four, and was brought up in Berkshire by her mother with three sisters and two half-sisters.
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Named Hermione by her father after Helen of Troy's daughter.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Love of My Life
2016/I
post-production
Tamara
Innocent
2017
TV Mini-Series
Alice
Cold Feet
1997-2016
TV Series
Karen Marsden
In the Club
2014-2016
TV Mini-Series
Roanna
The Rain Collector
2015
Short
Lady Kentworth
Agatha Raisin
2014
TV Series
Jo Cummings-Browne
Doctor Who
2014
TV Series
Lundvik
The Crimson Field
2014
TV Mini-Series
Matron Grace Carter
Agatha Christie's Marple
2013
TV Series
Evelyn Hillingdon
A Mother's Son
2012
TV Mini-Series
Rosie
Outcasts
2011
TV Series
Stella Isen
Revealed
2011
TV Series documentary
Narrator
Bouquet of Barbed Wire
2010
TV Mini-Series
Cassie Manson
MI-5
2006-2009
TV Series
Ros Myers
Kingdom
2007-2009
TV Series
Beatrice Kingdom
The Kindness of Strangers
2006
TV Movie
Fiona Charters
Separate Lies
2005
Priscilla
Wire in the Blood
2002-2005
TV Series
Carol Jordan
DCI Carol Jordan
Carol Jordon
Lucky Jim
2003
TV Movie
Carol Goldsmith
Quicksand
2003
Sarah
White Tie and Diamonds: Posh and Becks World Cup Party
$1 Million
