Cressida Curzon Wentworth-Stanley (

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Bonas; born 18 February 1989) is an English actress and model.

Early life and education

Bonas was born in

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, the only child of 1960s " it girl" Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon (daughter of the 6th Earl Howe's second marriage) and her third husband, Old Harrovian

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Jeffrey Bonas. The Bonas family, once grocers and butchers, also owned textile mills in Castle Gresley and

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; they constructed looms for their own use, and subsequently manufactured them for sale to other companies. The "Bonas Brothers" company closed operations in the 1980s, having produced, as its final line, elastic for women's tights. She has seven half-siblings: three paternal half-brothers from her father's first marriage; one maternal half-sister from her mother's first marriage; and two maternal half-sisters and a maternal half-brother from her mother's second marriage, including actress Isabella Calthorpe. Bonas studied ballet from the age of nine at the

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. Later, Bonas won a sports scholarship to Prior Park College in

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, then completed her formal education at

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. She went on to study dance at the

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, graduating with a 2:1, before undertaking postgraduate dance studies at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire in

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Career

Whilst at school, Bonas played

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housekeeper Mrs. Swabb in Alan Bennett's ''

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'', Miss Julie in the eponymous play, and Laura in

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's '' The Glass Menagerie''. She made her first screen appearance in 2009 with a small role in the TV series ''

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''. Her theatrical debut came in 2014 at

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in the play ''There's a Monster in the Lake''. The play was also staged at the Vault Festival in January 2015. In May and June 2015 Bonas appeared as Laura in the one-woman play, '' An Evening with Lucian Freud'', by Laura-Jane Foley, at the Leicester Square Theatre, directed by Ella Marchment. Jane Shilling in ''

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'' praised the "charm and energy of Bonas's performance". In June 2014 Bonas appeared in the film '' Tulip Fever'' (2015) as Mrs. Steen. In December 2016 and January 2017 Bonas played the female lead role of Daisy Buchanan in the musical play ''Gatsby'', at the Leicester Square Theatre, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''

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''. In 2020 she played Sheila Caffell in '' White House Farm'', a British television series about the 1985 White House Farm murders. Bonas was photographed by

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for '' Vanity Fair'' after being included in the magazine's annual "International Best-Dressed List" in 2014. In January 2015, after modelling for British brand Burberry, Bonas was announced to front the 2015 campaign of fashion company

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. Her work for the brand includes a two-minute-long advertisement released in March that co-stars actor Freddie Fox.

Personal life

Bonas has been called an " it girl". She was introduced to Prince Harry by Princess Eugenie in May 2012. On 30 April 2014, the couple was reported to have separated amicably. In May 2018, she was a guest at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. On 18 August 2019 Bonas's engagement to real estate agent and property investor Henry David (Harry) Wentworth-Stanley (born 1989) was announced via a post on his

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page. Wentworth-Stanley is the son of Nicholas Philip Wentworth-Stanley, of a

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family, and his first wife, Clare Husted (née Steel), former social editor for '' Tatler'' magazine, is now wife of George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven. On 25 July 2020, Bonas and Harry married in a small, private ceremony in

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. In July 2022 she confirmed her first pregnancy in ''

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'' magazine. In November 2022, she was spotted pushing her newborn son, Wilbur James Wentworth-Stanley, in a pram. In a December 2022 interview, she revealed that she had undergone

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(IVF) after struggling to conceive. In January 2025, it was announced that Bonas was pregnant with the couple's second child using frozen embryo from her earlier IVF treatment. In June 2025, the couple welcomed their second child, a daughter named Delphina Pandora Wentworth-Stanley. Bonas paid tribute to her late half-sister, Pandora Cooper-Key, who died in July 2024 after a 24-year cancer battle, by naming her daughter in her honour.

Selected credits

Theatre

Film and television

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bonas, Cressida 1989 births Living people Actresses from Winchester 21st-century English actresses Cressida English female models English film actresses English stage actresses English television actresses People educated at Farleigh School People educated at Stowe School Alumni of the University of Leeds Models from Hampshire People educated at Prior Park College