Biography
Sorcha Groundsell is a British actress. Born on 15 February 1998 in Bristol, she grew up on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and later moved to Glasgow, where she attended the Glasgow Gaelic School. A fluent Scottish Gaelic speaker, she took drama classes at the Citizens Theatre and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland before leaving school at 16 to pursue acting and moving to London at 18.
Groundsell made her feature film debut as Sarah in Iona (2015) and her stage debut in Stain at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that year. She is known for her leading role as June in the Netflix series The Innocents (2018), as well as appearances in Clique (2017), His Dark Materials (2019–2022), Crime (2021), Shetland (2022) and The Long Shadow (2023) as Nicola Briggs. She has also voiced characters in video games and starred in the BBC Alba series An t-Eilean (2025).
