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. She was the first deaf student to win a place at the drama school

. she is best known for her roles as Louise in '' Two Doors Down'' and ''

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'' as Cass. In 2022, she joined the cast of the new Acorn TV detective series '' The Chelsea Detective'', playing the forensics officer Ashley Wilton. She continued to play that role in season 3 in 2025.

Life and career

Sophie Stone was born to guitarist Martin Stone, grew up in East London, and has been deaf since birth. She attended Mary Hare Grammar School for the Deaf. She took up a place at RADA after the birth of her son Phoenix (to whom she is a

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), with the extra cost of her studies being supported by the Snowdon Trust. Since graduating, she has played the role of Kattrin in ''

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'' at the National Theatre and worked with other theatre companies. In Spring 2014, she played Agnetha in Bryony Lavery's play ''Frozen'', opening at the

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. In Autumn 2014, she took the leading role in the touring production of ''Woman of Flowers'', a reworking of the Welsh myth of Blodeuwedd by playwright Kaite O'Reilly. She has also appeared in episodes of several British television series and short films. In 2015, she played the role of deaf crew-leader Cass in the ''

'' episodes " Under the Lake" and " Before the Flood", who communicated entirely in

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. She was cast as

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's mother, who was deaf herself, in Series 2 of

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historical drama ''

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''. In 2021 she played the lead in an episode of the BBC 1 anthology series '' Jimmy McGovern's Moving On''. In 2009, she played in ''Coming Home'', directed by the deaf director Louis Neethling. She played the deaf poet and activist Dorothy Miles in the docu-drama "Dot" in 2019. She appeared in the short ''Sign Night'' with actress

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, which was broadcast on the BBC. In 2020, she added radio to her credits, by being cast in a

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drama ''Beethoven Can Hear You'' as a deaf traveller from the future that visits Beethoven (played by

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). She also wrote and spoke an essay about her relationship with music. This was part of the celebration for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. In 2013, she co-founded the DH Ensemble Theatre Company, which creates plays that include deaf and hearing actors. She is also an Associate Artist for The Watermill Theatre, and in 2021 she guest-edited an anthology of Deaf authors for Arachne Press. In 2022, she joined the cast of the new Acorn TV program, '' The Chelsea Detective''. She played the forensics officer Ashley Wilton, a role she continued to play in the third series of the show, in 2025.

Credits

Film

Television

Theatre

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Sophie Leigh British deaf actresses English television actresses Living people Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Year of birth uncertain 1980s births English deaf people BSL users 21st-century English actresses English stage actresses English film actresses Actresses from London English radio actresses