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Charlotte Anne Ritchie (born 29 August 1989) is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Alison in Ghosts, Oregon in Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat, Hannah in Siblings, Alison in Dead Pixels, Barbara Gilbert in BBC drama Call the Midwife,[1] and George in Feel Good. She was a member of the classical crossover group All Angels.[2][3]

Charlotte Ritchie
Born	(1989-08-29) 29 August 1989 (age 33) Clapham, London, England
Alma mater	University of Bristol
Occupation	Actress singer
Years active	2004–present

Early life

Charlotte Anne Ritchie was born in Clapham, London on 29 August 1989.[4] She was educated at James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich, and joined Youth Music Theatre UK and its production of Red Hunter in 2005.[5] She gained a degree in English and drama at the University of Bristol while filming Fresh Meat.[6][7][8]

Career

In 2004, Ritchie played a lead role in a short film entitled The Open Doors with Michael Sheen. She appeared as an uncredited extra in the 2005 film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.[9][10] She also featured in The Pierglass at the Young Pleasance Theatre in August 2006 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Ritchie was a presenter on Boomerang and performed with All Angels in an episode of Emmerdale.[11] She also played Emily Owen, a neighbour in the BBC's Life of Riley.

From 2011 to 2016, Ritchie portrayed Oregon in the Channel 4 comedy series Fresh Meat.

She stars alongside Tom Stourton in the BBC Three sitcom Siblings, which was first broadcast in summer 2014, and she appeared as a guest panellist in the same year on 8 Out of 10 Cats.

In 2015, Ritchie joined the cast of popular period drama Call The Midwife. She played Nurse Barbara Gilbert (Hereward) until March 2018, when she decided to leave the show.[12]

In 2016, she appeared in the UK production of Noël Coward's Private Lives, playing the role of Sibyl Chase.[13]

On New Years Day 2019, she had the guest starring role of Lin in the Doctor Who episode "Resolution".

Since 2019, she has played Alison in Ghosts, a BBC sitcom about a young couple who inherits a haunted estate,[14][15] and has also played Alison in Dead Pixels. She additionally played George in the Channel 4 series Feel Good, co-starring with Mae Martin.[16] The series released on Netflix in 2020.

Ritchie was a contestant on series 11 of Taskmaster, which was broadcast on Channel 4 in March to May 2021.[17][18]

In 2022, Ritchie joined the cast as a series regular on season 4 of You.[19][20]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	The Open Doors	Vera
2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Student	Uncredited extra
2013	Benny & Jolene	Jolene
2014	The Portrait	Eva Burrell	Short film
2016	Time Traveller's Support Group	Lina	Short film
2018	Careful How You Go		Short film
2018	Man of the Hour	Gemma	Short film
2018	MatchBox	Imogen	Short film
2019	Capital	Charlotte Quince-Wheatley	Short film
2021	REPEAT	Emily Moore

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Life of Riley	Emily Owen
2011–2016	Fresh Meat	Melissa "Oregon" Shawcross	Main role; 30 episodes
2012	Doctors	Becky Foley	2 episodes
2014	This Thing Called Love	Alice Barber
2014–2016	Siblings	Hannah	Main cast
2015–2018	Call the Midwife	Nurse Barbara Gilbert	Main role: series 4–7
2016	Drunk History UK	Self (drunk storyteller)	1 episode S2 E5
2016	Raised by Wolves	Ruby	3 episodes
	Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man for Sport Relief	Narrator
2019	Doctor Who	Lin	1 episode: "Resolution"
	Death in Paradise	Iris Shephard	1 episode
	Stath Lets Flats	Harriet	1 episode
2019–present	Ghosts	Alison Cooper	Main role; 19 episodes
	Dead Pixels	Alison	Main role; 12 episodes
2020	McDonald & Dodds	Sgt Irene Ross	1 episode
	The Other One	Kitty	1 episode
2020–2021	Feel Good	George	Main role; 12 episodes
2021	Taskmaster	Contestant	Series 11
2022	Grantchester	Bonnie Evans (Cathy's niece)	Series 7
2022	You	Kate	Main Role; Season 4

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014–2016	Dreamfall Chapters	Zoë Castillo (voice)	Main role
2021	Bravely Default II	Gloria (voice)

References

External links

• Charlotte Ritchie at IMDb 
• Charlotte Ritchie at British Comedy Guide

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