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7	Morfydd Clark (born March 17, 1990 in Sweden) is a UsefulNotes/{{W\|ales}}elsh stage and screen actress.
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9	Clark was born in Sweden to a Scottish father and Welsh mother and was raised in Wales with Welsh as her first language. She was diagnosed with UsefulNotes/{{dyslexia}} and UsefulNotes/{{ADHD}} as a child and left school at 16, but discovered a passion for acting and was accepted by the National Youth Theatre of Wales and later trained at the Drama Centre in London before embarking on a successful stage career, performing in theatres such as The Donmar Warehouse and The Old Vic.
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11	She is known for her film roles as Maud in ''Film/SaintMaud'' and Dora Spenlow in ''Film/ThePersonalHistoryOfDavidCopperfield'', and for her television roles as Mina Harker in ''Series/{{Dracula\|2020}}'' and Sister Clara in ''Series/HisDarkMaterials'', which were both produced by Creator/TheBBC. She later landed the leading role of [[Characters/RingsOfPowerGaladriel Galadriel]] in Creator/{{Amazon}}'s ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''.
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13	For her critically lauded performance in ''Saint Maud'', she won the [[UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}} BAFTA Cyrmu Award]] for Best Actress in 2021, was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in the same year, and was also named British Actress of the Year by the London Film Critics' Circle in 2020.
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15	Her name is Welsh and is pronounced ''[=MORveth=]''[[note]]In the Welsh language, 'dd' is pronounced as a voiced 'th'[[/note]].
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17	!!Selected Filmography:
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19	* ''Literature/MadameBovary'' (2014) as Camille
20	* ''Film/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies'' (2016) as Georgiana Darcy
21	* ''[[Literature/LadySusan Love & Friendship]]'' (2016) as Frederica Vernon
22	* ''Film/TheManWhoInventedChristmas'' (2017) as Kate Dickens
23	* ''Series/TheAlienist'' (2018) as Caroline Bell
24	* ''Series/PatrickMelrose'' (2018) as Debbie Hickman
25	* ''Film/{{Crawl}}'' (2019) as Beth Keller
26	* ''Film/SaintMaud'' (2019) as Maud
27	* ''Film/ThePersonalHistoryOfDavidCopperfield'' (2019) as Dora Spenlow
28	* ''Series/HisDarkMaterials'' (2019) as Sister Clara
29	* ''Series/{{Dracula\|2020}}'' (2020) as Mina Harker
30	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' (2022-) as Galadriel
31	* ''Film/StarveAcre'' (2023) as Juliette
32	* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' (TBA) as Ophelia
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34	!!Notable Stage Roles:
35	* ''[[Literature/{{Mabinogion}} Blodeuwedd]]'' (2013, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru) as Blodeuwedd
36	* ''Violence and Son'' (2015, The Royal Court Theatre, London) as Jen
37	* ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' (2015, The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield) as Juliet
38	* ''Theatre/KingLear'' (2016, The Old Vic, London) as Cordelia
39	* ''[[Literature/DangerousLiaisons National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'' (2016, The Donmar Warehouse, London) as Cécile Volanges
40	* ''Theatre/TheCherryOrchard'' (2017, The Sherman Theatre, Cardiff) as Anya

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