
Sophie Ward was born 30 December 1964, Sophie is an English actress and the daughter of actor Simon Ward.
Sophie has started in the film Young Sherlock Holmes. Other early films included Return to Oz, Little Dorrit and A Summer Story, and shewas also the love interest in the video of Roxy Music’s song “Avalon”, not to mention A Village Affair.
In August 2000, Sophie married her partner the writer Rena Brannan.
Sophie answers the LnL Questionnaire
Your favourite virtue?
Ease
Your favourite qualities in a man?
A love for their mothers
Your favourite qualities in a woman?
Eccentricity
Your main characteristic?
Plodding
What draws you most to your friends?
Tears and laughter
Given the opportunity what would you most like to change?
Human capacity for cruelty
Who would you most like to take out for dinner?
My wife
Your idea of happiness?
Being behind or in front of the curtain at 7.25pm
What is your favourite way of spending the day?
Eating with friends and family
Whose life other than yours would you most like to have lived?
A whole life? Instead of mine? No one’s.
Where would you most like to live?
In a treehouse
Who is your favourite author?
Charlotte Bronte, Evelyn Waugh, PG Wodehouse, Rosamund Lehman, Scarlett Thomas
Who is your favourite poet?
ee cummings, A A Milne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson
Your favourite heroes in fiction?
Tin tin, Jack Reacher
Your favourite heroines in fiction?
Jane Eyre, Ameliaranne Stiggins, Elvira Hammond
Your favourite painters?
Jenny Saville, Gwen John, all the Impressionists
Who is your favourite composer?
Thomasini, Neil Young, Camille, Annie de Franco, Nathalie Merchant, PJHarvey
What is your favourite Film?
Terminator 2, Forever Amber, Waiting for Guffman
Your favourite food
Roast potatoes
Your favourite drink?
Red wine
Who do you most admire?
Aung San Suu Kyi
What is your present state of mind?
Pleasurably tired
For what fault have you most toleration?
Creative ambition…
Your favourite motto?
…better to try and fail than not to try at all.
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