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in the sixth season of the

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series ''

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'' (2023).

Early life

Bellamy was born in

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, Yorkshire and moved to

Wokingham Wokingham is a market town in Berkshire, England, west of London, southeast of Reading, north of Camberley and west of Bracknell. History Wokingham means 'Wocca's people's home'. Wocca was apparently a Saxon chieftain who may als ...

, Berkshire at age five. Her mother enrolled her in local

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acting classes from a young age. Bellamy attended

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, where she served as head girl and took part in the performing arts, including productions of ''Grease'' and ''Matilda''.

Career

In September 2022, it was announced Bellamy would make her professional acting debut portraying a young

opposite Ed McVey as

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in the sixth and final season of the

biographical series ''

''. Bellamy discovered the casting call through social media, auditioned shortly after completing her

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, and learned she had been cast while working as a mascot at

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. First look images of Bellamy and McVey in costume were revealed in March 2023, and the season was released later that year in November. In 2024, Bellamy made her professional stage debut as

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in ''A Child of Science'', a play about the creation of

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, at the

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with

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and Adelle Leonce.

Filmography

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bellamy, Meg Living people 2002 births 21st-century English actresses Actors from Wokingham Actresses from Berkshire Actresses from Leeds English television actresses English stage actresses