Holliday Grainger
Acting
Biography
Holliday Clark Grainger (born 27 March 1988), also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in the Strike series, DI Rachel Carey in the Peacock/BBC One crime drama The Capture and Estella in Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations.
Born: March 27, 1988
Place of Birth: Didsbury, Manchester, England, UK
Known For
Colette
Holliday Grainger provides a raw, emotional performance as Colette, a 16-year-old who finds it hard to love.
Merlin
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.
Robot & Scarecrow
A love story between a robot and a scarecrow who meet and fall for each other at a summer music festival.
The Capture
When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.
Magnificent 7
Inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson, the story follows a self-sacrificing mother of seven children, four of whom are, in one form or another, autistic.
The Royal
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Sparkhouse
The relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
The Borgias
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.
Patrick Melrose
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
Patrick Melrose
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
Filmography
as Rebecca
as Red Hair
as DI Rachel Carey
as Laura
as Lydia Weekes
as Bridget Watson-Scott
as Lady Gravesend
as Honor
as Robin Ellacott
as Maria
as Louise
as Robot
as Holly
as Miriam Webber
as Lady Constance Chatterley
as Anastasia Tremaine
as Lauren
as Bonnie Parker
as Estella Havisham
as Baroness
as Suzanne Rousset
as Lucrezia Borgia
as Diana Rivers
as Tess Scabius
as Colette
as Alice Clennell
as Emily
as Molly
as Sharon Bilkin
as Ruby
as Sophia
as Leeza Gruff
as Charlie Cooper
as Leah Retsam
as Meg
as Stacey Appleyard
as Rose Bushell
as Louise Jackson
as Simone
as Star Westward
as Jess Burgess
as Carole Green
as Older Lisa Bolton
as Nicola Bennet
as Megan Boothe
as Harriet
as Kate Beckett
as Kirsty