Louise Brealey

Louise Brealey is an English actress, writer and journalist. She first became known on television as Nurse Roxanne Bird in the BBC drama Casualty from 2002 to 2004. Louise Brealey went nude on screen for her role in Delicious. She was born on March 27, 1979, in Bozeat, Northamptonshire, England. Her best known part is pathologist Molly Hooper in all four series of Sherlock, which began in 2010. She also played Judy Smallweed in Bleak House (2005), Cass in Back and Gillian Chamberlain in A Discovery of Witches. On stage she won Best Actress at the Manchester Theatre Awards as Marianne in Constellations. In February 2014 she starred as Julie in Miss Julie at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.