
Bozeat, Northamptonshire, England
Louise Brealey (born 27 March 1979) is an English actress, writer and journalist. She played Molly Hooper in Sherlock (2010–), Cass in Back (2017), Scottish professor Jude McDermid in Clique (2017), Gillian Chamberlain in A Discovery of Witches (2018) and Donna Harman in Death in Paradise (2020). She made her TV debut as Nurse Roxanne Bird in two series of BBC drama Casualty (2002–2004) before playing Judy Smallweed in Bleak House (2005). Brealey plays pathologist Molly Hooper in all four series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's television drama, Sherlock. She has also made her name as an accomplished stage actress. Her stage debut was at London's Royal Court in 2001 as 14-year-old Sophie in Max Stafford-Clark's production of Judy Upton's Sliding With Suzanne. She portrayed child prodigy Thomasina in the Bristol Old Vic production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 2005. In 2011, she was the short-frocked daughter of Julian Barratt and Doon Mackichan at the Young Vic in Richard Jones's Government Inspector. She next played three lead roles – Cassandra, Andromache and Helen of Troy – in Caroline Bird's sold-out production of The Trojan Women at London's Gate Theatre. In February 2014, she starred as Julie in August Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. She won Best Actress at the Manchester Theatre Awards for her role as Marianne in Constellations, directed by Michael Longhurst and played the lead alongside Anne Marie Duff in Marianne Elliott's Husbands and Sons at the National Theatre. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Louise Brealey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

as Eleanor Knight

as Donna Harman
2011

as Roxanne Bird
1986

as Eleanor Knight
2013

as Molly Hooper
2010

as Isobel Jameson
2013

as Gillian Chamberlain
2018

as Dr. Amelia Frayn
2012

as Pamela Joplin
2023

as Beatrix
2019

as Molly Hooper
2016

as Sexy Society Girl
2015

as Cass
2017
as Helen
2024

as Lady Chetwynd
2026

as Josephine
2026

as Helen
2024
as Maddie
2022

as Hazel
2022

as Hannah Peyton
2021

as Self
2021

as Self / Narrator (voice)
2021

as Mum
2020

as Alice
2018

as Molly Hooper
2016

as Sexy Society Girl
2015

as Sally
2015

as Natasha
2015

as Molly Hooper
2013

as Stella
2013

as Hairdresser
2012

as Girl
2007

as Kim
2001

as Self
1999
as Eleanor Knight
1 ep.

as Donna Harman
1 episodes

as Roxanne Bird
48 episodes

as Eleanor Knight
1 episodes

as Molly Hooper
11 episodes

as Isobel Jameson
3 episodes

as Gillian Chamberlain
8 episodes

as Dr. Amelia Frayn
7 episodes

as Pamela Joplin
4 episodes

as Beatrix
5 episodes

as Cass
12 episodes

as Jude McDermid
6 episodes

as Scene-of-Crime Officer Harriet 'Anorak' Tate
8 episodes

as Deb
12 episodes