About
Louise Brealey (born 27 March 1979) is an English actress, writer and journalist. She played Molly Hooper in Sherlock (2010–), Cass in Back (2017), Scottish professor Jude McDermid in Clique (2017), Gillian Chamberlain in A Discovery of Witches (2018) and Donna Harman in Death in Paradise (2020). She made her TV debut as Nurse Roxanne Bird in two series of BBC drama Casualty (2002–2004) before playing Judy Smallweed in Bleak House (2005). Brealey plays pathologist Molly Hooper in all four series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's television drama, Sherlock. She has also made her name as an accomplished stage actress. Her stage debut was at London's Royal Court in 2001 as 14-year-old Sophie in Max Stafford-Clark's production of Judy Upton's Sliding With Suzanne. She portrayed child prodigy Thomasina in the Bristol Old Vic production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 2005. In 2011, she was...
Known for
Death in ParadiseSeries • 2011
CasualtySeries • 1986
Father BrownSeries • 2013
SherlockSeries • 2010
ShetlandSeries • 2013
Ripper StreetSeries • 2012
A Discovery of WitchesSeries • 2018
Hotel BabylonSeries • 2006
Lockwood & Co.Series • 2023
Sherlock: The Abominable BrideMovie • 2016
CliqueSeries • 2017
Victor FrankensteinMovie • 2015
Such Brave GirlsSeries • 2023
The WidowSeries • 2019
BackSeries • 2017
The Best Exotic Marigold HotelMovie • 2012
Brian and CharlesMovie • 2022
ContainmentMovie • 2015
Sherlock: Many Happy ReturnsMovie • 2013
DeliciousMovie • 2013