Tamara Lawrance

Tamara Lawrance


in Wembley, London, England, UK
Tamara Naomi Lawrence (born 1994) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Prince Harry's republican girlfriend in the 2017 BBC television film King Charles III, and her performance as Viola in the 2017 production of Twelfth Night at the National Theatre cinecast internationally on NT Live. In 2018, she received the second prize at the Ian Charleson Awards for her performance as Viola.

In December 2018 she starred as Miss July, a former slave on a sugar plantation in 19th-century Jamaica, in the three-part BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel The Long Song.

Movies for Tamara Lawrance...

Burnt Milk
Title: Burnt Milk
Character: Una's Voice
Released: December 31, 2023
Type: Movie
Burnt Milk centers around a monologue by Una (voiced by Tamara Lawrance), an isolated Jamaican woman in London around 1985. As she takes a moment of solace to make Burnt Milk, she is flooded with spiritual imagery that takes her home.
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The Silent Twins
Title: The Silent Twins
Character: Jennifer Gibbons
Released: September 16, 2022
Type: Movie
June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.
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Boxing Day
Title: Boxing Day
Character: Aretha 'Boobsy' Mckenzie
Released: December 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.
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Title: Invasion
Character: Learah
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: TV
Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.
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Title: Time
Character: Abi Cochrane
Released: June 6, 2021
Type: TV
Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.
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Title: Small Axe
Character: Stephanie Smith (Age 18)
Released: November 15, 2020
Type: TV
An anthology series of five stories looking at the lives of a group of friends and their families in London’s West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s.
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Kindred
Title: Kindred
Character: Charlotte
Released: November 6, 2020
Type: Movie
When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother and his controlling stepbrother who are determined to care for her. Grief-stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte begins to doubt the family's intentions and her suspicions grow that they may be trying to control her and her unborn baby.
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Title: The Long Song
Character: July
Released: December 18, 2018
Type: TV
Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, we follow the trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her odious mistress Caroline.
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The Gurney
Title: The Gurney
Character: Aleisha Edwards
Released: March 1, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of the relationship between death row warden, Albert Gilmore, and Aleisha Edwards, a young black woman on death row, convicted for the fatal shooting of the officer who killed her husband.
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On Chesil Beach
Title: On Chesil Beach
Character: Molly
Released: January 19, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
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King Charles III
Title: King Charles III
Character: Jess
Released: May 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Prince Charles' accession to the throne following the Queen's death. When he refuses to sign a controversial bill into law, political chaos ensues: a constitutional crisis, rioting on the streets and a tank in front of Buckingham Palace.
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National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
Title: National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
Character: Viola
Released: April 6, 2017
Type: Movie
A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love. The nearby households of Olivia and Orsino are overrun with passion. Even Olivia's upright housekeeper Malvolia is swept up in the madness. Where music is the food of love, and nobody is quite what they seem, anything proves possible.
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Title: Undercover
Character: Clemency Johnson
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: TV
Undercover follows Maya, the first black Director Of Public Prosecutions. Just as she is about to take up the post and her life comes under intense public scrutiny, she learns that that her husband Nick has been lying to her for years. Twenty years ago Nick was a fearless and dedicated undercover officer, infiltrating organisations considered a danger to society because of their political beliefs. Nick built himself a fake past and now with his wife unsuspecting and his conscience killing him – his secret identity may compromise the new Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Title: Mr Loverman
Character: Maxine
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Barrington Jedidiah Walker, Barry to his mates, is a seventy-four year old, Antiguan born, exuberant Hackney personality, renowned for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. Carmel, his wife of 50 years, senses that Barry has been cheating on her with other women. Little does she know what’s really going on: a secret, passionate affair with his best friend and soulmate, Morris. Now facing the final chapter of his life, Barry has big choices to make that will force his whole family to question their futures.
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Boxing Day 2
Title: Boxing Day 2
Character: Aretha 'Boobsy' Mckenzie
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Melvin and Lisa return in this highly anticipated sequel to the 2021 romantic comedy, which is rumoured to introduce Lisa's family.
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The Man in My Basement
Title: The Man in My Basement
Character: Bethany
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In the African American neighborhood of Sag Harbor, Charles Blakey is out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home. A knock on the door from mysterious businessman Anniston Bennet brings a bizarre and lucrative proposition; rent his dusty stand-up basement out for the summer and receive enough money to clear his debts for good. Once Charles accepts, he finds himself led down a terrifying path that confronts his family’s ghosts and locks the men in a terrifying puzzle, at the heart of it race, the source of their traumas and the root of all evil.
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Title: Get Millie Black
Character: Millie-Jean Black
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Ex Scotland Yard detective Millie-Jean Black returns to Kingston to work missing persons; soon finding herself on a quest to save a sister who won’t be saved, to find a boy who can’t be found, to solve a case that will blow her world apart and prove almost as tough to crack as Millie Black.