Sinead Matthews is an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 actress.

She was born in Coventry. She attended Coventry's Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School and Language College

Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School and Language College

Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School is a comprehensive school with Language College status situated in Potters Green, Coventry, England.-Feeder primary schools:*Corpus Christi, Ernesford Grange*Good Shepherd, Foleshill*Sacred Heart, Stoke*St Gregory's, Wyken...

, and studied A-level Drama at Stratford Upon Avon College between 1996 and 1998. She graduated from RADA

Rada

Rada is the term for "council" or "assembly"borrowed by Polish from the Low Franconian "Rad" and later passed into the Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian languages....

 in 2003, and made her television debut in the 2004 costume drama He Knew He Was Right. In 2009 she starred in Our Class, a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek at the NT

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

 and in 2010 Penelope Skinner

Penelope Skinner

Penelope Skinner is a British playwright who came to prominence after her play Fucked was first produced in 2008 at the Old Red Lion Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival to huge critical acclaim and has had successive plays staged in London including at the Bush Theatre, National Theatre with an...

's play Eigengrau at the Bush Theatre

Bush Theatre

The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 above The Bush public house by Brian McDermott, and has since become one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world. An intimate venue renowned for its close-up...

.

Film

• Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
  Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
  Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang is a 2010 family film. It is a sequel to the 2005 film Nanny McPhee. It was adapted by Emma Thompson from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books...
  
  (2010) - Miss Topsey
• The Boat That Rocked
  The Boat That Rocked
  The Boat That Rocked is a 2009 British comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis, with pirate radio in the United Kingdom during the 1960s as its setting. The film has an ensemble cast featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, and Kenneth Branagh...
  
  (2009) - Miss Clitt
• Happy-Go-Lucky
  Happy-Go-Lucky
  Happy-Go-Lucky is a 2008 British Comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. The screenplay focuses on a cheerful and optimistic primary-school teacher and her relationships with those around her...
  
  (2008) - Alice
• Wednesday
  Wednesday (film)
  Wednesday is a 2007 film, directed by award-winning British director Rob Sorrenti set around the meeting years later between a girl and boy born on the same day.-Cast:*Sinead Matthews - Lilya*Tom McClane - Sam*Ann Emery - Nan*David Kennedy - Dad...
  
  (2007) - Lilya
• Pride & Prejudice
  Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)
  Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 British romance film directed by Joe Wright. It is a film adaptation of the 1813 novel of the same name by Jane Austen and the second adaption produced by Working Title Films. It was released on September 16, 2005, in the UK and on November 11, 2005, in the...
  
  (2005) - Betsy
• Vera Drake
  Vera Drake
  Vera Drake is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, telling the story of a working-class woman in London in 1950 who performs illegal abortions...
  
  (2004) - Very Young Woman

Television

• In Love with Barbara
  In Love with Barbara
  In Love with Barbara is a 2008 drama which was inspired by the life of the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland and tells the story of what made her the Queen of Romance...
  
  (2008) - Young Barbara Cartland
  Barbara Cartland
  Dame Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, CStJ , was an English author, one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century...
  
  
• Who Gets the Dog?
  Who Gets the Dog? (ITV drama)
  Who Gets the Dog? is a one-off British television comedy drama starring Kevin Whately, Alison Steadman, Stephen Mangan and Emma Pierson. It was written by Guy Hibbert and directed by Nicholas Renton and premieres on ITV on Sunday 2 December 2007 at 9pm....
  
  (2007) - Claire Evans
• Half Broken Things (2007) - Steph
• Trial and Retribution XIII: Curriculum Vitae (2007) - Rachel Burns
• Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (2006) - Violet the Tooth Fairy
• Ideal
  Ideal (TV series)
  Ideal is a British comedy-drama, or dark comedy originally broadcast on digital channel BBC Three, created by Graham Duff and produced by BBC Comedy North and Baby Cow Productions. It stars Johnny Vegas as small-time cannabis dealer Moz....
  
  - Jenny (2005–present)
• He Knew He Was Right (2004) - Mary
• The Afternoon Play
  The Afternoon Play
  The Afternoon Play is a series of individual plays which sometimes appear on BBC One during weekday afternoons. The first series began on 27 January 2003, and as of 2008 there have been five series...
  
  , Viva Las Blackpool - Chantelle Hughes (2004)

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