Georgina Campbell – Biography, Age, Height, Movies and TV Shows

Quick Facts

Sometimes, some stars get to rise so fast that many, including themselves, don’t get to understand how fast everything gets to happen. One of such stars is Georgina Campbell. She is an actress who although may not necessarily be the oldest in the business or the one with many acting jobs to her credit but has already got all the attention she deserves.

Campbell made history by becoming the first ever black woman to take home the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress thanks to her role in the 2015 BBC Drama “Murdered By My Boyfriend”. More than that, she has also been listed by Forbes as one of the most influential 30 under 30 in the entertainment world in 2019.

Georgina Campbell Biography (Age)

It was on June 12, 1992, that Georgina Campbell was born to a teacher and a police officer in Maidstone, Kent. However, she was raised in Wilmington together with her two sisters; Sarah who is the eldest of the three and Ellie, the youngest. With her parents not together, her mother got married to her stepfather who is a bookbinder.

When she was growing up, Georgina loved Kate Winslet and acted in school plays, but becoming an actress was not the first thing she wanted. In fact, she only had her interest in becoming a flight attendant. However, when she was 16, she was approached by a woman who happened to be a director, Sarah Walker, who offered her a role in Freak which was created for MySpace. That was how her interest in acting began.

For her education, Georgina whose mother was a teacher of health and social care went to Royal Holloway where she studied acting. Even before going to improve her art, she had been acting since 2009, but it was in her second year in school that she got one of her biggest roles at the time when she portrayed Young Serena Gorringe in the mini-series, The Ice Cream Girls.

In order to get greater opportunities, Georgina Campbell has now moved to the United States. On a list that has people like Charlie Cooper, Ella Mai, and , she was named among the 30 under 30 by Forbes in its 2019 listing.

Movies and TV Shows

As already stated, the acting career of Georgina Campbell moved rather fast to where she is today. Her first acting role came in 2009 when she portrayed Lucy in an episode of Freak. She got yet another episode in Casualty in 2010 where she portrayed Amy. In the same year, she was offered the role of Kelly in two episodes of The Cut.

From 2011 to 2012, she got a recurring role in the BAFTA-nominated children comedy series, Sadie J. In the TV series, she played the rival of Sadie, Whitney Landon.

In 2012, she got to appear in even more TV shows including medical soap opera Doctors, portraying Abby Hellier and then in the BBC One drama series, One Night, playing the role of Rochelle. Also in 2012, she played Gabby Greendale in Holby City and was in another episode of Death in Paradise, portraying Therese.

She was in Ice Cream Girls in 2013, followed by The Dumping Ground in 2014. Her next appearance was in the fact-based drama, Murdered by My Boyfriend, taking the role of a domestic abuse victim, Ashley Jones, in the hands of a very controlling boyfriend.

This would become one of her biggest till date as it helped her clinch the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. With that, she became the first black woman to win the awards.

The British actress was in yet another BBC One film, The Ark in 2015, although this time around, she was given a little role. She was also in Brotherhood, After Hours, and Tripped all in the same year. In 2016, she took roles in the miniseries One Of Us and the TV series Flowers. Her recent works include Broadchurch, Black Mirror, and Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams in 2017 while in 2018 she was in Krypton.

She got her film debut in 2017 when she appeared in The Ministry of Stories Anthology of Horror. She was also in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword as Kay, and in Canned as Georgie, all in 2017.

Height

Georgina Campbell is not only a good actress, but she is also a very beautiful woman who has a slim build and a height that may be described as slightly below average. She stands at a height of 5 ft. 6 in. (167.6 cm) while her body weight is ‎55 kg.

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