Kimberley Nixon

Overview

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Acting
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Birthday
Sep 24, 1985 (39 years old)

Kimberley Nixon

Known For

Mudtown
0h 48m
TV Show 2024

Mudtown

Local Newport Magistrate Claire takes the law into her own hands when a warehouse rave goes up in flames, and her past comes asking for favours.

A Very English Christmas
1h 30m
Movie 2023

A Very English Christmas

Christmas in the English countryside wasn’t on Kate’s meticulously planned festive calendar until her half-sister Amy, who was brought up in England, announces her plan to get married on Christmas Eve. Kate teams up with Amy’s co-Christmas market owner Dylan to bring order to this whirlwind wedding, but will Kate find her own love in the heart of England this Christmas?

Partygate
1h 5m
Movie 2023

Partygate

Karaoke, suitcases of wine, ambushing cake... this factual drama tells the story of Covid from inside 10 Downing Street as staff kicked back at lockdown-breaching parties

Date with Death
0h 12m
Movie 2023

Date with Death

Depressed and recently widowed, Liv agrees to go on a blind date, but when she turns up she’s greeted by Death himself. Surely, she won’t go home with him?

Consent
0h 47m
Movie 2023

Consent

Bold and authentic drama set at an elite school where the lines of sexual consent are dangerously blurred. When a serious accusation is made against 'one of their own', how will the school react?

Life and Death in the Warehouse
0h 59m
Movie 2022

Life and Death in the Warehouse

Follows Megan, who in a desperate attempt to keep her new job at a Welsh warehouse, presses Alys – who is pregnant – to get her "pick rate" up, putting her and her baby at risk.

Life and Death in the Warehouse
0h 59m
Movie 2022

Life and Death in the Warehouse

Follows Megan, who in a desperate attempt to keep her new job at a Welsh warehouse, presses Alys – who is pregnant – to get her "pick rate" up, putting her and her baby at risk.

Biography

 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 comedy-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.