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Kimberley Nixon

Kimberley Nixon

Known For Acting
Birthday Sep 24, 1985 (40)
Birthplace Bristol, England, UK
Popularity 0.8 (history)
Updated Sep 01, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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 Kimberley Nixon (born 24 September 1985) is an English-born Welsh actress. Nixon is known for her role as Sophy Hutton in the BBC One period drama Cranford, and appearances in various films such as Wild Child and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. She also starred as Josie Jones in the Channel 4 c ... omedy-drama Fresh Meat and as Sarah Pearson in the BBC Two comedy Hebburn. Born in Bristol to Welsh parents, Nixon and her six brothers were raised in Ynysybwl near Pontypridd, Wales, where she attended Coedylan Comprehensive School, now known as Pontypridd High School. After high school, Nixon trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff alongside Tom Cullen and Aneurin Barnard. Before her graduation in 2007, she signed to Universal Studios after appearing in a college production of The Comedy of Errors. She is a former member of the National Youth Theatre of Wales. Nixon's career began in 2007, when she starred as the motherless Sophy Hutton in the BBC One costume drama series Cranford. In 2008, she had supporting roles in the films Wild Child and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Nixon appeared in Easy Virtue and played one of the leads in Cherrybomb opposite Rupert Grint and Robert Sheehan, before starring in Black Death. In 2011, Nixon played Josie in the Channel 4 TV comedy-drama series Fresh Meat, and starred alongside Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough and Iwan Rheon in Resistance, an adaptation of an Owen Sheers novel, which was released in the UK in November 2011. Nixon starred alongside Jaime Winstone and Aneurin Barnard in Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons, a horror film about an aspiring teen detective who stumbles into her first real case when investigating the mysterious new family, the Gammons, in her neighbourhood. The film was released on 20 April 2012. In 2012, Nixon starred in the movie Offender, a thriller about a man who sets up his own imprisonment in order to avenge the assault of his girlfriend. She also had leading roles in the ITV drama series "Kidnap and Ransom" and the BBC Two comedy-drama series Hebburn, alongside Chris Ramsey and Vic Reeves. The sitcom is written by stand-up comic Jason Cook and is based on his experiences of growing up in the north-east of England. Nixon starred in the medical drama Critical, with Lennie James, Emma Fryer and Paul Bazely, that debuted on Sky 1 on 24 February 2015. She also starred in a Welsh thriller titled Kingdom of Rain, with Julian Lewis Jones and Robert Kazinsky. She took a lead role in the third season of Outlander.

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A Very English Christmas

A Very English Christmas

2023

as Emma Taylor

Partygate

Partygate

2023

as Kate Josephs

Consent

Consent

2023

as Ms Parkinson

The Left Behind

The Left Behind

2019

as Hannah

Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood

2014

as Myfanwy Price

Elfie Hopkins

Elfie Hopkins

2012

as Pippa

Offender

Offender

2012

as Elise

The Last Post

The Last Post

2011

as Sophie

Resistance

Resistance

2011

as Bethan

Hunky Dory

Hunky Dory

2011

as Vicki

Black Death

Black Death

2010

as Averill

Cherrybomb

Cherrybomb

2009

as Michelle

Wild Child

Wild Child

2008

as Kate

Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue

2008

as Hilda Whittaker

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

2008

as Lindsay Marlings

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Fresh Meat

as Josie Jones

Episodes: 30

First Aired: Sep 21, 2011

Hebburn

as Sarah

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Oct 18, 2012

Critical

as Dr Harry Bennett Edwards

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Feb 24, 2015

Cranford

as Sophy Hutton

Episodes: 7

First Aired: Nov 18, 2007

New Blood

as Alison

Episodes: 7

First Aired: Jun 09, 2016

The Accident

as Detective Anne Hendricks

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Oct 24, 2019

Young, Welsh and Pretty Minted

as Narrator

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Feb 25, 2018

Outlander

as Millie Nelson

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Aug 09, 2014

Peacock

as Beatrice

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Apr 25, 2022

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Egg

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 08, 1989

Playhouse Presents

as Jessica

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 12, 2012

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Louisa Oxley

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 12, 2004

Death in Paradise

as Catrina McVey

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 25, 2011

Midsomer Murders

as Cloud

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 23, 1997

Mudtown

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Dec 29, 2024

Richard Osman's House of Games

as Self - Contestant

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Sep 04, 2017

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