Angel Coulby

Coulby was born in Islington, London, and she is Afro-Guyanese.[2][3] She studied for a degree in acting at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and achieved a first and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Bursary in 2000.[4][5]

Coulby is first seen in an episode of Scariest Places on Earth as a student who had an encounter with a ghost. Her breakthrough came in 2001 with her role in the Johnny Vaughan BBC sitcom 'Orrible. She was later chosen to play Gwen, a young woman also known as Guinevere who would later become Queen, in the BBC One fantasy TV series Merlin.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Coulby stated that with playing Gwen she "liked the idea that you go on a bit of a journey as an actor, starting off as a humble maidservant, kind of a bit bumbling, and then obviously growing into this very capable queen", and it was "really nice to have that range throughout a job."[6] In that capacity, she starred in all the five seasons, appearing in 61 of the 65 episodes.

She took the star role of the jazz singer Jessie in the BBC Two Stephen Poliakoff five-part 2013 drama serial Dancing on the Edge, alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Goodman, Matthew Goode, Anthony Head and Jacqueline Bisset.[7]

It was announced in February 2013 that Coulby would star in The Tunnel, a British-French remake of Scandinavian crime drama, The Bridge. She starred alongside Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy. The first series aired in late 2013, and Coulby reprised her role for a second series in 2016.[8]

Coulby returned to stage for the first time since 2014 in Rupert Goold's Albion at the Almeida Theatre in February 2020, which was filmed and broadcast on BBC Four in August 2020.[9]

It was revealed Coulby joined the cast of the Apple TV+ thriller Suspicious, which is a remake of the Hebrew-language series False Flag, in March 2020.[10] The filming of the series, taking place in London, had stopped temporarily in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic[11] and has resumed in October 2020.[12]

In 2019, Coulby announced she had recently become a mother[13] to a son born in 2018.[14]

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