Freya Wilson (born ) is a British

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Background

Wilson attended

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CofE Primary School and

St Paul's Girls' School St Paul's Girls' School is an independent day school for girls, aged 11 to 18, located in Brook Green, Hammersmith, in West London, England. History St Paul's Girls' School was founded by the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1904, using part o ...

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, Hammersmith from 2010 to 2017. She is currently reading English at Merton College, Oxford. She is a prodigious reader and won the Old Possum's Poetry Prize in their category in 2011.

Career

Wilson portrayed a young Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) in the 2010

period drama A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and swas ...

The King's Speech ''The King's Speech'' is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language ...

'' and also a young Eliza Reed in the 2011 film ''

Jane Eyre ''Jane Eyre'' ( ; originally published as ''Jane Eyre: An Autobiography'') is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first ...

''. She also played Violette Selfridge in the first series of the ITV drama

Mr Selfridge ''Mr Selfridge'' is a British period drama television series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his department store, Selfridge & Co, in London, set from 1908 to 1928. It was co-produced by ITV Studios and Masterpiece/WGBH for broadcast on IT ...

. She was various voices in the Three Little Pigs app. In August 2011, Wilson joined

Youth Music Theatre UK British Youth Music Theatre (BYMT), formerly Youth Music Theatre UK, is a UK-based national performing arts organisation founded in December 2003. BYMT provides music theatre training to young people aged 11–21 and a stepping stone to drama ...

as a member of the ''Korczak'' company, as they perform a musical based on the life of Janusz Korczak at the

Rose Theatre, Kingston The Rose Theatre Kingston is a theatre on Kingston High Street in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. The theatre seats 822 around a wide, thrust stage. It officially opened on 16 January 2008 with ''Uncle Vanya'' by Anton Chekhov, with ...

. Wilson has also written some plays. One of these, ''No Houses Out The Window'', was entered into the New Views playwriting programme in 2015. It was shortlisted and awarded a rehearsed reading in the National Theatre.

Filmography

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* English film actors Living people People from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham 1990s births English child actors English television actors {{UK-film-actor-stub