Rebekah Staton

Rebekah Staton
Born	(1981-06-17) June 17, 1981 Leek, Staffordshire, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Actress

Rebekah Staton (born 17 June 1981 in Leek, Staffordshire, England) is an English actress.

Early life

Born in Leek, Staffordshire, her family then moved to Shrewsbury, and aged nine to Penkridge, Staffordshire. She attended Wolgarston High School, and then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

Career

Her TV credits include playing Jenny in the 2007 Doctor Who two-part "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", and Althea in two episodes in the series Rome. She plays Louise in BBC Three award-winning comedy series Pulling. She also plays Kristina in the BBC One version of the Wallander series.

Other appearances include two episodes of The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, six of State of Play, and the film Bright Young Things. She had a small part in the 2006 mini series Jane Eyre. She plays the character of the superhero "She-Force" in the 2008 ITV2 series No Heroics and played the character of Kelly in the BBC comedy Home Time.

In 2011, she acted as Caitlin in the Sky1 comedy series Spy.

From 2013 to date Staton has had a leading role in the Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves, a performance described as “utterly brilliant”.

Stage work includes Paula/Shirley Honeywell/Sue Braithwaite in Playing With Fire by David Edgar at the National Theatre's Olivier auditorium (September–October 2005).

Staton was the narrator for the BBC Three and BBC America documentary 18 Pregnant Schoolgirls, as well as being the narrator for BBC Three's Don't Tell the Bride. She also voices Bethany in Dragon Age II and provided the voiceover for the Channel 5 documentary series Candy Bar Girls.

Filmography

TV

• Raised by Wolves (2015) as Della Garry
• Up the Women (2014) as Betty
• Remember Me (2014) as Alison Denning
• Love Matters (2013) as Jenny
• Great Night Out (2013) as Kath
• Moving On (2013) as Lisa
• Hunderby (2012) as Annie
• Inside Men (2012) as sandra
• Wallander (Episodes "Before the Frost", "The Dogs of Riga", "An Event in Autumn")
• Spy (2011) as Caitlin Banks
• No Heroics as Jenny/"She-Force"
• Pulling as Louise
• Rome (2007) as Althea (Episodes "These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero" and "Testudo et Lepus")
• Doctor Who (2007) as Jenny (Episodes Human Nature / The Family of Blood)
• Jane Eyre (2006) as Bessie
• Outlaws (2004) as Janey

Movies

• Will (2011)

External links

• Rebekah Staton at the Internet Movie Database