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Shannon Tarbet (born 27 October 1991) is a British actress who has transitioned from an extensive career in theatre to feature film with main roles in Love Is Blind (2019) and Love Sarah (2020), and on television with recurring roles in Genius and in Rellik (2017) and as Amber Peel in Killing Eve (2019).

Shannon Tarbet
Born	October 27, 1991 [1] Age 29 [2][3] Brighton, East Sussex[1]
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2010–present

Early life

Tarbet was born and lived her early years in Brighton, East Sussex,[1] and attended Greenfields School in Forest Row.[4] Tarbet studied acting at the K-Bis Theatre School in Brighton.[5] From there, Tarbet was working in telesales attempting to save enough money to apply for drama school, when she successfully auditioned at the Royal Court Theatre, igniting her acting career.[3]

Career

Tarbet made her professional stage debut in 2010 as Delilah Evans in the Anya Reiss play Spur of the Moment at the Royal Court Theatre,[6][7][2] for which, she was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Outstanding Newcomer in 2010.[4][8] In 2011, she made a guest appearance in the BBC's Inspector George Gently.[9] In 2012, she appeared as Jane Clairmont in Helen Edmundson's play, Mary Shelley.[10] The same year, Tarbet played a voice role in Nell Leyshon's radio drama Jess's Story, for Children in need, aired on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012, concerning students with mental health issues.[11]

In 2013, Tarbet appeared in the short film Woodland and won the best actor award at the Underwire Film Festival.[12] In 2015, Tarbet was nominated for an Offie award for best female for her performance the play, The Edge of our Bodies at the Gate Theatre (London).[13] In 2017, Tarbet starred alongside Geoffrey Rush in the Ron Howard directed Genius.[14] The same year Tarbet played sixteen year-old Hannah Markham in the BBC drama TV series Rellik.[15]

In 2019, Tarbet starred alongside Matthew Broderick in the dark comedy-drama film Love is Blind.[6] In 2020, Tarbet created filmed and starred in the short film Evading Stagnation which went on to win the 1st Competition (March 2020) of the Exeter Phoenix Creative Responses to COVID-19 – Shorts Programme 2020.[16][17] In 2020, Tarbet played the leading role of Clarissa in Love Sarah,[18] directed by Eliza Schroeder.

In 2022, Tarbet starred in an interactive film, the first of its kind in Europe, The Gallery [19]

Stage performances

Year	Production	Character	Venue	Notes/ Reference
2010	Spur of the Moment	Delilah Evans	Royal Court Theatre	[7]
2011	Mogadishu	Becky	Royal Exchange, Manchester	[20]
2012	Mary Shelley	Jane Clairmont	Shared Experience	Play by Helen Edmundson[10]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Character	Notes/reference
2013	Woodland	Short Film	[12]
2013	A Promise	Anna	[5]
2017	The Choke (Short)	Alana
2017	Beast	Polly
2018	Dead Birds (Short)	Elsa
2018	Helena (Short)	Alice
2018	Colette	Meg
2019	Martha (Short)	Martha
2019	Love Is Blind	Bess Krafft	[6]
2020	Love Sarah	Clarissa	[18]
2020	Evading Stagnation (Short film)	herself	[16][17]
2022	The Gallery (interactive film)	?	[19]

Television

Year	Title	Character	Notes/reference
2011	Inspector George Gently	Mary Claverton	Gently Upside Down Series 4 Episode 1 [9]
2011	Silk	Amy	1 episode (1.5) [5]
2011	Monroe	Natasha	1 episode (1.4) [5]
2011	Lewis	Samantha Coyle	1 episode - Old, Unhappy, Far Off [5]
2015	River	Erin Fielding	Series 1, Episodes 1 and 6 [21]
2015	Virtuoso	Ina	TV Film [22]
2017	Genius	Marie Winteler	3 episodes [14][17]
2017	Rellik	Hannah Markham	6 episodes [15]
2019	Killing Eve	Amber Peel	2 episodes - I Hope You Like Missionary! and Nice and Neat [17]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2010	Evening Standard Theatre Awards	Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer	Spur of the Moment Royal Court Theatre	Nominated	[8][4]
2011	Manchester Theatre Awards	Best Actress in a supporting role	Mogadishu, Royal Exchange, Manchester	Won	[20]
2013	Underwire Film Festival	Actor Award	Woodland (Short film)	Won	[12]
2015	The Offies	Best Female	The Edge of our Bodies at the Gate Theatre.	Nominated	[13]
2020	Exeter Phoenix Creative Responses to COVID-19	Shorts Programme 1st Competition (March 2020)	Evading Stagnation (Short film)	Won	[16][17]

References

External links

• Shannon Tarbet at IMDb
• Shannon Tarbet on Instagram
• Shannon Tarbet in Evading Stagnation (Short film)

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