---
name: "Charlotte Riley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/charlotte-riley"
fi1m_id: "charlotte-riley"
imdb_id: "nm2731660"
tmdb_id: 115679
wikidata_id: "Q441078"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 December 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-07T18:16:31.199120+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Charlotte Riley

## Identity

Charlotte Riley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/charlotte-riley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** charlotte-riley
- **IMDb ID:** nm2731660
- **TMDB ID:** 115679
- **Wikidata ID:** Q441078
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Riley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q441078, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2731660/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115679

Actor. Born 29 December 1981 in Grindon, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 December 1981, Grindon, England, UK
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Also known as:** Charlotte Frances Riley, شارلوت رایلی
- **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 68 (4), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 63 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 3, Drama 2, Science Fiction 2, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $690m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Riley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q441078, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2731660/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115679

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Edge of Tomorrow*](https://film.one/film/edge-of-tomorrow.md) (82), [*London Has Fallen*](https://film.one/film/london-has-fallen.md) (38)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Masters of the Universe*](https://film.one/film/masters-of-the-universe.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Charlotte Riley is an English actress. She was born on 29 December 1981 in Grindon, County Durham. She studied English and linguistics at Durham University and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Riley is known for her roles as Sarah Hurst in *Easy Virtue* (2008) and Catherine Earnshaw in the 2009 ITV adaptation of *Wuthering Heights*. Her other credits include *Edge of Tomorrow* (2014), *In the Heart of the Sea* (2015), *London Has Fallen* (2016), *Peaky Blinders* (2013) and *The Peripheral* (2022). She is cast as Queen Marlena in the forthcoming *Masters of the Universe* (2026).

In 2004 she won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award for the play *Shaking Cecilia*, which she co-wrote. She is married to actor Tom Hardy.

*Sources: imdb.com, hollywoodreporter.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Masters of the Universe* (2026), Fi1m 58, as Queen Marlena — [page](https://film.one/film/masters-of-the-universe.md)
- *King Charles III* (2017), Fi1m 73, as Kate Middleton — [page](https://film.one/film/king-charles-iii.md)
- *London Has Fallen* (2016), Fi1m 38, as MI6 Jacquelin Marshall — [page](https://film.one/film/london-has-fallen.md)
- *Edge of Tomorrow* (2014), Fi1m 82, as Nance — [page](https://film.one/film/edge-of-tomorrow.md)
- *Peaky Blinders* (2013), Fi1m 77, as May Carleton — [page](https://film.one/tv/peaky-blinders.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Masters of the Universe* (2026), as Queen Marlena — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/masters-of-the-universe.md)
- *Babies* (2026), series, Actor
- *Malice* (2025), series, as Sophie
- *Smoggie Queens* (2024), series, as Danni
- *Wild Animal* (2024), as Mallory
- *The Peripheral* (2022), series, as Aelita West
- *Fireworks* (2022), as Gillian Lye
- *Mairi* (2020), as Vicky · Producer
- *Ted Lasso* (2020), series, as Stage Manager — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/ted-lasso.md)
- *Wimbledon, 2019 Official Film* (2020), as Narrator
- *Trying* (2020), series, as Kat
- *A Christmas Carol* (2019), series, as Lottie / Ghost of Christmas Present
- *FX's A Christmas Carol* (2019), as Lottie / Ghost of Christmas Present
- *Press* (2018), series, as Holly Evans
- *Swimming with Men* (2018), as Sarah
- *Trust* (2018), series, as Robina Lund
- *Sticky* (2018), series, as Ziggy
- *King Charles III* (2017), as Kate Middleton — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/king-charles-iii.md)
- *Close to the Enemy* (2016), series, as Rachel Lombard
- *London Has Fallen* (2016), as MI6 Jacquelin Marshall — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/london-has-fallen.md)
- *In the Heart of the Sea* (2015), as Peggy
- *Killing Thyme* (2015), as Anna
- *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell* (2015), series, as Arabella
- *Edge of Tomorrow* (2014), as Nance — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/edge-of-tomorrow.md)
- *Grand Street* (2014), as Camila Reilly
- *Peaky Blinders* (2013), series, as May Carleton — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/peaky-blinders.md)
- *The Town* (2012), series, as Alice
- *Entity* (2012), as Kate Hansen
- *World Without End* (2012), series, as Caris
- *Words of Captain Scott* (2012), as Kathleen Scott
- *DCI Banks* (2011), series, as Lucy Payne
- *Wuthering Heights* (2009), series, as Catherine Earnshaw
- *Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen* (2009), as Peggy Lytton
- *The Take* (2009), series, as Maggie
- *Easy Virtue* (2008), as Sarah Hurst
- *Inspector George Gently* (2008), series, Actor
- *Grownups* (2006), series, as Chloe
- *Agatha Christie's Marple* (2004), series, as Margot Bence
- *Foyle's War* (2002), series, as Mandy Dean — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/foyles-war.md)

## Gallery

- ![Charlotte Riley](https://film.one/media/person/6656/gallery-b5e3b4110dc1.jpg) Charlotte Riley — bt_ist, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Charlotte_Riley_May_28%2C_2014_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actress Charlotte Riley at the premiere of Edge of Tomorrow on May 28, 2014](https://film.one/media/person/6656/gallery-a2dc17483e2f.jpg) Actress Charlotte Riley at the premiere of Edge of Tomorrow on May 28, 2014 — bt_ist, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Charlotte_Riley_May_28%2C_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Charlotte Riley](https://film.one/media/person/6656/gallery-139beb0ae9e3.jpg) Charlotte Riley — Image via TMDB
- ![Charlotte Riley](https://film.one/media/person/6656/gallery-54de9bc64bfc.jpg) Charlotte Riley — Image via TMDB

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