A younger actor has landed her first skilled function taking part in Kate Middleton in hit Netflix collection The Crown.
Meg Bellamy, 19, a former head woman at St Crispin’s college in Wokingham, Berkshire, was picked after submitting a self-taped audition after a casting name put out on social media.
Additionally making their display debuts might be Ed McVey, 21, and Rufus Kampa, 16, who will each play younger variations of the Duchess of Cambridge’s now-husband, Prince William.
All three will seem within the present’s sixth and remaining collection, which is able to start taking pictures later this yr.
The Crown is a historic drama chronicling the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, with the sixth collection anticipated to depict the years after the loss of life of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.
Kampa will reportedly play Prince William within the instant aftermath of his mom’s loss of life, whereas McVey and Bellamy will play the duke and duchess throughout their time as college students on the College of St Andrews, the place they met in 2001.
Bellamy is known to have gained the function solely months after leaving St Crispin’s, a complete, and has no skilled appearing expertise, the Each day Telegraph reported.
She was reportedly awarded an A* in her drama A-level and starred in quite a lot of college productions, and can also be mentioned to have labored as a performer at Legoland in close by Windsor.
McVey graduated from the Drama Centre London in 2021 and has labored as an understudy within the play Camp Siegfried on the Previous Vic, however is but to look on display.
Kampa has appeared in quite a lot of stage productions, most not too long ago because the title character in a musical model of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 & 3/4s, and because the Suave Dodger in Oliver!
Different stars to have appeared in The Crown embody Olivia Colman, who performed the Queen; Matt Smith, who performed Prince Philip; and Helena Bonham Carter, who performed Princess Margaret.
The fifth collection, attributable to air in November, will embody an entire new forged, with Imelda Staunton because the Queen, Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, and Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret.
The collection will even characteristic Dominic West as Prince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales.
Requested in regards to the present final yr, Prince Harry described it as “fictional” however “loosely primarily based on the reality”.
“It provides you a tough thought about what that life-style, the pressures of placing obligation and repair above household and every thing else, what can come from that,” he mentioned.
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