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Lara Pulver

Lara Pulver (born 1 September 1980) is an English film, television and stage actress. She won the 2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical in the West End's revival of Gypsy.

Her screen credits include True Blood (2010), Sherlock (2012–2014), Da Vinci's Demons (2013–2015), Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond (2014), Spooks (2015), Underworld: Blood Wars (2016), The Alienist: Angel of Darkness (2020), The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021), Dota: Dragon's Blood (2021–2022), The Split (2022), Maternal (2023), Blood of Zeus (2024–2025), and MobLand (2025).

Pulver was born in the town of Leigh-on-Sea in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, on 1 September 1980 and grew up in a village near Sevenoaks, Kent. Her father is from a Jewish family; her mother converted to Judaism when they married. She has a sister, Erika, who is four years older and works as a teacher.

Pulver attended the National Youth Music Theatre between 1994 and 1998, as well as The Liz Burville Dance Centre, Bexley. In 1997, she began studying at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts, and graduated in 2000.

Pulver was nominated for the 2008 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the role of Lucille Frank in the first West End production of the musical Parade at the Donmar Warehouse. She reprised the role in the Los Angeles production at the Mark Taper Forum opposite T.R. Knight.

In 2008, Pulver recorded a song for the CD Act One – Songs from the Musicals of Alexander S. Bermange. Pulver joined the cast of the BBC's Robin Hood in 2009 as Isabella, the sister of Guy of Gisbourne.

In 2010, Pulver joined the cast of the third series of HBO's True Blood as Sookie Stackhouse's fairy godmother, Claudine Crane.

Pulver played Erin Watts, the new chief of Section D, in the tenth and final series of BBC spy drama Spooks, a role she reprised in the 2015 feature film Spooks: The Greater Good

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