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Sophie Skelton: Outlander Actress Bio

Sophie Alexandra Skelton is a British actress best known for her role as Brianna Randall in the Starz drama series Outlander. She began dancing at a young age and received training in ballet and musical theater. Some of her early acting roles include appearances in the TV series DCI Banks, The Dumping Ground, Waterloo Road, and Doctors. She has also appeared in films such as The War I Knew and Blackbird. Her breakthrough role came in 2016 playing Brianna Randall in Outlander, and she has since appeared in other films and television shows.

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Sophie Skelton: Outlander Actress Bio

Sophie Alexandra Skelton is a British actress best known for her role as Brianna Randall in the Starz drama series Outlander. She began dancing at a young age and received training in ballet and musical theater. Some of her early acting roles include appearances in the TV series DCI Banks, The Dumping Ground, Waterloo Road, and Doctors. She has also appeared in films such as The War I Knew and Blackbird. Her breakthrough role came in 2016 playing Brianna Randall in Outlander, and she has since appeared in other films and television shows.

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Sophie Alexandra Skelton (born 7 March 1994) is a British actress best known for her role as

Brianna Randall in the Starz drama series Outlander.

kelton was born and raised in Woodford, Greater Manchester, England, the daughter of
entrepreneurial children's toy inventors.[2][3] She began dancing at the age of three,
eventually training in ballet at the Royal Academy, before moving into musical theater
and stage productions.[4][1] Her first professional television role, in Series two of the
British crime drama DCI Banks (2012), was a two episode stint as schoolgirl Becca
Smith.[5][6]

In 2013, Skelton guest-starred as Esme Vasquez-Jones in series one of CBBC's award


winning children's drama The Dumping Ground.[7][8] That same year she went on to
portray Nikki Boston's (Heather Pierce) estranged daughter in the ninth season of BBC
One's school drama Waterloo Road and Yasmin Carish in a series thirteen episode of
the long running medical series Doctors.[9][10]

Transitioning into feature films, Skelton's first role was in 2014's The War I Knew. She
portrayed Margaret in director Ian Vernon's tale of a WWII paratrooper lost behind
enemy lines.[11][12]

2015 saw a return to episodic television for Skelton. She again appeared in the BBC
series Doctors, portraying Ellen Singleton in the series sixteen episode "Revenge".[13][14]
Next she guest starred in a series nine episode of ITV's WWII and post-war era legal
drama Foyle's War.[15] Later that year Skelton appeared in a twelve episode stint as
Sofia Matthews on So Awkward, CBBC's sitcom revolving around three socially
awkward school-age friends, and a two episode guest starring role as Gemma Holt on
BBC One's medical drama Casualty.[16][17]

Skelton's first leading film role was in Charlotte Stente Nielsen's 2016 fantasy-horror
short Blackbird.[18] Her breakout role, in the British fantasy action-adventure series Ren:
The Girl with the Mark, came later that year.[6] She won Best Lead Actress at the
Hyperdrive Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival for her role in the series.[19] 2016 also saw
Skelton cast in the role of Brianna Randall Fraser in STARZ hit TV Series
Outlander.[20][21] The role, opposite Scottish actor Richard Rankin as Roger Mackenzie
is recurring, becoming a main cast member from Season 4 onwards, and will continue
throughout their story arc as outlined in Diana Gabaldon's genre bending book
series.[20][22]

In 2017, Skelton portrayed Jess in Christopher Menual's film Another Mother's Son, the
true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey during WWII.[23]
From there she went on to star alongside Nicolas Cage in the bank heist film #211
(2018), based upon the real-life "Battle of North Hollywood" in 1997, and Day of the
Dead: Bloodline (2018), a remake of the 1985 George Romero zombie film.[11]

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