Phoebe Dynevorcomes from a family that knows their way around the film and television industry, and her best movies and TV shows span over a decade of work in that industry. While Dynevor’s mother is also an actor, her father is a screenwriter, and her passion for storytelling likely is owed to growing up in a household with those professions. She made her professional acting debut at 14 and has been steadily appearing on television ever since, only making her break into movies in 2021.
Dynevor’s career started as a schoolgirl, but her breakout role is as a young woman determined to become a wife in the period romanceBridgerton. With an eclectic group of roles behind her, Dynevor has proven herself to be both an adept character actor and a leading lady with a fantastic range.She earned a BAFTA Rising Star nomination in 2024, reflecting her success since her breakout role in 2020.
Waterloo Roadis a highly successful school drama that explores issues facing the working class in modern day Britain. It alsomarks Pheobe Dynevor’s professional screen debut.
The series primarily focuses on the staff at the school, highlighted throughout the run of the show. Because the school is underfunded and the staff underpaid, they have to be creative with many of their teaching choices. The students make up the supporting cast as their antics inform the storylines of the teachers.
Dynevor appears only in season five of the show, but she is there as a main student throughout the season. She is initially introduced as a well-off teenager, contrasting the struggling staff at the school. Dynevor’s Siobahn also ends up getting herself into trouble as she and her best friends end up in a girl gang.Much of Dynevor’s work here plays to melodrama, but it provides a great foundation for her career.
Dynevor’s futureBridgertoncostar Rege-Jean Page also appeared inWaterloo Road, but in season 10.
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Snatchreceived largely mixed reviews from critics when it premiered, but it was a good showcase for talent that was known primarily for their work as teen or child actors.The series starred Luke Pasqualiano (Skins) and Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) as a pair of con artist best friends who end up embroiled in organized crime. It gave both actors the chance to play a more adult role and get recognized for something other than the big parts that made them famous.
The same is true for Phoebe Dynevor who had mostly been playing teenagers up to that point. Here, she appears as the female companion of an organized crime leader, played by Ed Westwick.She plays a woman desperate to get out of her current situation well, and her character teams up with the con artists to take the crime boss down.
The Musketeersis inspired by the Alexander Dumas novelThe Three Musketeers. It’s set primarily before the events of the novel, expanding on the backstories of the titular characters. Each of the main musketeers gets a spotlight, andDynevor appears in an episode dedicated to the character of Porthos (Howard Charles).
Porthos spends the episode tracking down his father and finding out the truth about his family. Along the way, he also liberates a group of young women who are being held and sold to wealthy men. Dynevor plays one of those women. While the women do not have much character development since they are seen in the episode as a group who do not have much to do other than be afraid and walk out of a building, Dynevor’s Camille does get to be at the forefront as someone who cares about the others and helps lead them to safety.
It’s a credit to Dynevor’s on-camera presence that she manages to make herself stick out with just a few lines.
The Villagewas intended to be a sweeping story centered on one family and its extended members across a century in Great Britain. While some series have used a similar concept, they are often about the upper class or the conflict between the upstairs-downstairs dynamic. The Village, instead, centered on a working-class family in a small village. Unfortunately, the aim did not get fulfilled since the show was canceled after two seasons.
Dynevor appears in the series in the middle part of the show’s timeline in the 1920s. She appears in six episodes as one of the young women who lives in the village. While she has feelings for one of the main characters, he has feelings for someone else, and most of her storylines revolve around that relationship.
The Villagemarks Dynevor’s first period role and helped to show that there was a versatility to her acting in her earliest roles.
Dickensianis a reimagining of the works of Charles Dickens. Characters from many of his works are pulled and placed in the same town, interacting with one another and providing new insights into their characters’ behaviors. The series acts as a prequel of sorts to all of Dickens’ works. It centers on the investigation into the murder of Jacob Marley, one of the ghosts inA Christmas Carol.
Dynevor appears as the eldest child of the Cratchit family.While she does not have quite as much to do in this role as some of her other early TV parts, it’s still a great part for her. Another period role, it allows Dynevor to immerse herself into the world of Dickens and help flesh out the Cratchit familyas a whole. It’s a more innocent precursor to her starring in the first season of Netflix’sBridgerton.
Youngerprovides a comedic take on ageism in the workplace. A woman in her 40s decides to pursue her dream of working in publishing, but in order to get on the inside track to her dream job, she has to lie about her age. She spends most of the series pretending to be 26 and trying to fit in with her younger coworkers.
Phoebe Dynevor recurs throughout the series as an Irish bartender who also happens to have an internship with a game development company.While she is not always part of the main storylines, Dynevor gets a full arc in the showas a woman who follows her own dreams to work in the technology field in Los Angeles. She also has a relationship with one of the main characters - and a child - and learns to grow up over the course of her time in the show.
This is the role Dynevor had just before landing her breakout role inBridgerton, so it provides a great contrast to her role there, as Dynevor is a modern woman balancing a career and a family.
Bank of Daveis inspired by real events, but the movie certainly takes a more cinematic approach to the story, introducing a few plot points that might not have actually happened while still giving the audience a feel-good tale. The movie follows a wealthy man named Dave who has been using his wealth to offer loans to his friends and neighbors. When he decides to make his loans more official by starting his own bank, he finds himself getting pushback.
Dave’s concept involves the profits made from any interest at the bank being donated to charity, so it’s a not-for-profit bank founded with his own money. Institutions that make their money from high interest rates find him to be a threat. While the idea seems far-fetched, it’s a real one. That much reflects the real story.
Dynevor stars in the movie as the title character’s niece. A young doctor, she plans on using a loan from her uncle’s bank to open a free clinic in their small town. She hits it off with the lawyer working with her uncle and is quite charming here.Dynevor has a certain feistiness in this role that not many of her television roles have allowed her to play, and it’s a fun part for her.
Dynevor was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the National Film Awards UK forBank of Dave.
The same year thatBank of Davewas released, Dynevor also starred in thethrillerFair Playfor Netflix. The movies are on vastly different ends of the storytelling spectrum, but Dynevor is equally adept in both of them.
Set in the world of Manhattan’s financial firms, the movie follows a young couple who work as hedge fund analysts who have been dating in secret. Dynevor’s Emily ends up promoted to a position that Alden Ehrenreich’s Luke wanted, and their relationship continues even though it is against company policy. Cracks form as her success outstrips his, and they begin competing professionally and personally.
Dynevor gets to play a darker role here as the movie harkens back to erotic thrillers of the ‘90s. While Emily seems well-meaning if ambitious at first, Dynevor’s performance hints that there is more to Emily than meets the eye as the movie continues.
Dynevor was nominated for Best Actress at the National Film Awards UK forFair Play.
…her only project to have a 100% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Though Dynevor had been acting professionally for a decade beforeThe Colour Roompremiered, the movie marked her first feature. It was made for television and inspired by real events.
The Colour Roomcenters on Clarice Cliff, a woman working in different factories throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Though she is financially supporting her mother and sister, she risks not being hired by repeatedly leaving one factory to learn a new skill about the pottery process at another, working in nearly every position. She finally lands a job at a factory where the boss, with whom she eventually has an affair, believes in her talent and helps her create a path to success. She helps to save the factory with her Art Deco designs during the Great Depression.
While biopics, especially those made on a television budget instead of a theatrical one, can end up being formulaic,The Timeshad praise for Dynevor’s turn in the picture, saying she “saves the day” and comparing her skills to those of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio on the screen:
Dynevor tackles this tired premise with the vim of a young Pitt or DiCaprio, bringing a giddy dynamism to the most humdrum moments — examining clay or contemplating colours.
The movie is currently her only project to have a 100% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Dynevor’s Daphne Bridgerton might be the fourth child of the bunch, but she is the star of the first season…
Bridgertonprovides Phoebe Dynevor with her breakout role.The Netflix period drama has become a juggernaut for the streaming service, and much of its success can be attributed to brilliant writing in adapting the romance novels for the screen and the chemistry of its ensemble cast.
ThoughBridgertoncenters on the Bridgerton familyas each of the eight children finds love, each season makes one of the children and their love interest the spotlight characters. Dynevor’s Daphne Bridgerton might be the fourth child of the bunch, but she is the star of the first season as Daphne enters the marriage market and becomes one of the most sought-after women in society.
Bridgertonreceived 11 Emmy nominations during Dynevor’s first season, winning one. Dynevor was also nominated for a Satellite Award for her role.
Dynevor has to walk a fine line with Daphne, allowing her to appear insufferable to her siblings, but endearing her to the audience. She plays her with a combination of wide-eyed innocence and sheer determination to become a wife. She is aided in this by her chemistry with Rege-Jean Page, which allows her to come of age before the audience’s eyes.Dynevor commands the screen in the first season of the show and is equally at ease in stepping back during the second season.
ThoughPhoebe Dynevorguest stars in the second season of the show and does not appear in the third season,the door has been left open for her to return toBridgertonin the future.
