Charlotte Ritchie

Charlotte Ritchie (born 29 August 1989) is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Alison Cooper in Ghosts, Oregon in Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat, Hannah in Siblings, Alison in Dead Pixels, Barbara Gilbert in BBC drama Call the Midwife,[1] George in Feel Good, and Kate Galvin in You. She was a member of the classical crossover group All Angels.[2][3]

Charlotte Ritchie
Born (1989-08-29) 29 August 1989
Clapham, London, England
Alma materUniversity of Bristol
Occupations
  • Actress
  • Singer
Years active2004–present

Early life

Charlotte Ritchie was born in Clapham, London, on 29 August 1989.[4][5] She was educated at James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich, and joined Youth Music Theatre UK and its production of Red Hunter in 2005.[6] She gained a degree in English and drama at the University of Bristol while filming Fresh Meat in her final year.[7][8][9]

Career

In 2004, Ritchie played a lead role in a short film entitled The Open Doors with Michael Sheen. She appeared as an uncredited extra in the 2005 film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.[10][11] She also featured in The Pierglass at the Young Pleasance Theatre in August 2006 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Ritchie performed with All Angels in an episode of Emmerdale.[12] She also played Emily Owen, a neighbour in the BBC's Life of Riley.

From 2011 to 2016, Ritchie portrayed Oregon in the Channel 4 comedy series Fresh Meat.

She stars alongside Tom Stourton in the BBC Three sitcom Siblings, which was first broadcast in summer 2014, and she appeared as a guest panellist in the same year on 8 Out of 10 Cats.

In 2015, Ritchie joined the cast of popular period drama Call The Midwife. She played Nurse Barbara Gilbert (Hereward) until March 2018, when she decided to leave the show.[13]

In 2016, she appeared in the UK production of Noël Coward's Private Lives, playing the role of Sibyl Chase.[14]

On New Years Day 2019, she had the guest starring role of Lin in the Doctor Who episode "Resolution".

Since 2019, she has played Alison in Ghosts, a BBC sitcom about a young couple who inherits a haunted estate.[15][16] In the same year she appeared in Dead Pixels, also playing a character named Alison. She additionally played George in the Channel 4 series Feel Good, co-starring with Mae Martin.[17] The series released on Netflix in 2020.

Ritchie was a contestant on series 11 of Taskmaster, which was broadcast on Channel 4 in March to May 2021.[18][19] She has since been a guest on multiple episodes of the official Taskmaster podcast.

In 2022, Ritchie joined the cast as a series regular on season 4 of You.[20][21]

In 2023, Ritchie appeared in the music video for "The Blades" by alternative rock band Squid.[22]

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2004The Open DoorsVera
2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireStudentUncredited extra
2013Benny & Jolene
2014The PortraitEva BurrellShort film
2016Time Traveller's Support GroupLinaShort film
2018Careful How You GoShort film
Man of the HourGemmaShort film
MatchBoxImogenShort film
2019CapitalCharlotte Quince-WheatleyShort film
2021REPEATEmily Moore

Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
2009 Life of Riley Emily Owen
2011–2016 Fresh Meat Melissa "Oregon" Shawcross Main role; 30 episodes
2012 Doctors Becky Foley 2 episodes
2014 This Thing Called Love Alice Barber
2014–2016 Siblings Hannah Main cast
2015–2018 Call the Midwife Nurse Barbara GilbertMain role: series 4–7
2016 Drunk History UK Self (drunk storyteller) 1 episode S2 E5
2016 Raised by Wolves Ruby 3 episodes
Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man for Sport Relief Narrator
2019 Doctor WhoLin1 episode: "Resolution"
Death in Paradise Iris Shephard 1 episode
Stath Lets Flats Harriet 1 episode
2019–2023 Ghosts Alison Cooper Main role; 33 episodes
2019-2021 Dead Pixels Alison Main role; 12 episodes
2020 McDonald & Dodds Sgt Irene Ross 1 episode
The Other One Kitty 1 episode
2020–2021 Feel Good George Main role; 12 episodes
2021 Taskmaster Contestant Series 11
2022–present Grantchester Bonnie Evans From series 7
2023-present You Kate Galvin Main role; Season 4

Video games
YearTitleRoleNotes
2014–2016 Dreamfall Chapters Zoë Castillo (voice) Main role
2021 Bravely Default II Gloria (voice)

References
  1. "Call the Midwife's Charlotte Ritchie introduces new midwife Barbara". Archived from the original on 21 March 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  2. "All Angels". classicfm.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 November 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  3. "All Angels". classical-crossover.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 February 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  4. "The Harry Potter extra who went on to star in Call The Midwife and Netflix's Feel Good". SurreyLive. 23 June 2021. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  5. "All Angels Circa 2006–2011". AllAngelsOfficial.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2023. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  6. "Red Hunter (2005) | Youth Music Theatre". Youthmusictheatreuk.org. 16 August 2005. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  7. "Charlotte Ritchie is Oregon – Channel 4 – Info – Press". Channel 4. 1 September 2011. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  8. Gilbert, Gerard (2 May 2014). "Fresh Meat star Charlotte Ritchie on brotherly love and being unimpressed by playing Wembley". The Independent. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  9. Lytton, Charlotte (15 October 2012). "Charlotte Ritchie's jump from student to TV's one to watch – Features – TV & Radio". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 June 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  10. "No 9: All Angels". The Guardian. 14 December 2006. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  11. "All Angels Biography". itunes.apple.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  12. Emmerdale episode (9 October 2007) at IMDb
  13. "Call the Midwife: Nurse Barbara actress Charlotte Ritchie discusses her heartbreaking storyline". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 2 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  14. "Tom Chambers and Charlotte Ritchie on Noël Coward's classic Private Lives". www.atgtickets.com. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  15. "Call the Midwife star Charlotte Ritchie joins BBC1 comedy Ghosts". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  16. "BBC – Ghosts – Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  17. "Feel Good Cast". 17 March 2020. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  18. "Taskmaster series 11 line up". Twitter. Archived from the original on 6 April 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  19. "Taskmaster Series 11 - On Demand - All 4". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  20. Andreeva, Nellie (25 March 2022). "Charlotte Ritchie To Star In Season 4 Of Netflix's 'You'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  21. Knolle, Sharon (25 March 2022). "Charlotte Ritchie Joins Season 4 of Netflix's 'You'". TheWrap. Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  22. Richards, Will (26 May 2023). "Watch Squid's Charlotte Ritchie-starring video for new song 'The Blades'".
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