Camilla Power

Camilla Power

Born: November 13, 1976
in Cork, Munster, Ireland
Camilla Joy Cynthia Power (born November 13, 1976) is an Irish-born English actress. She is best known for her appearances in the television series Emmerdale and Waterloo Road.

Power was born in Cork, Ireland, and is a distant cousin of the actor Tyrone Power. Her great-grandfather was Sir John Power, Member of Parliament for Wimbledon before the Second World War. She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, and started acting from an early age; her first TV appearance was on a chicken nuggets commercial, and an early screen role was as Sabina Halliday in A Summer Story (1988).

Power appeared in Channel 4’s The Manageress in 1990 and played Jill Pole in BBC Television’s The Silver Chair (1990), an adaptation of the book by C. S. Lewis. She also had parts in Bonjour la Classe (1993) and Moonacre (BBC, 1993), the last calling for skill at horse-riding. From 1993 to 1995 she was a regular cast member on the Yorkshire Television soap Emmerdale, playing Jessica McAllister.

Power made her stage debut in a theatrical adaptation of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the National Theatre in 1998. She had roles in the television drama series Murder in Mind and The Brief.

In 2006, she appeared in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road as English teacher Lorna Dickey and returned for the second series in 2007, until her character committed suicide after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In early 2008 she starred in the Torchwood episode "From Out of the Rain" as Pearl, a circus star who escapes from an old cinema film and seeks revenge on those who put her out of business. Power was seen in the British action movie The Tournament as the ruthless assistant to Liam Cunningham's Tournament Master. In 2012, she appeared in two episodes of ITV drama Whitechapel.

In 2016, she appeared in "Shut Up and Dance", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.

Movies for Camilla Power...

Truck
Title: Truck
Character: Alison
Released: May 29, 2020
Type: Movie
The apocalypse has arrived and the only way out is in the back of a truck. A middle class family flee the city. The truck stops to pick up new passengers, triggering a meltdown of the family dynamic. But who will make it to the end?
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Final Score
Title: Final Score
Character: Mrs. Steed
Released: September 7, 2018
Type: Movie
When a stadium is seized by a group of heavily armed criminals during a major sporting event, an ex-soldier must use all his military skills to save both the daughter of a fallen comrade and the huge crowd unaware of the danger.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Dominique Baxter
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Sandra
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: TV
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
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The Tournament
Title: The Tournament
Character: Sarah Hunter
Released: May 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Every ten years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No. 1 Assassin, which itself carries the legendary million dollar-a-bullet price tag.
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Title: Lewis
Character: Tara Faulkner
Released: February 18, 2007
Type: TV
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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Title: Torchwood
Character: Pearl
Released: October 22, 2006
Type: TV
The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
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Title: Waterloo Road
Character: Lorna Dickey
Released: March 9, 2006
Type: TV
Waterloo Road is a UK television drama series the first broadcast was in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, the location of the show was moved to the former Greenock Academy in Greenock, Scotland in 2012. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide. Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.
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Not Only But Always
Title: Not Only But Always
Character: Judy Huxtable
Released: December 30, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of the working and personal relationship between the comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, a hugely popular duo in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing primarily on Cook, the film traces the pair from their first meeting through their career as part of the Beyond the Fringe review, their television series Not Only... But Also and various other projects before their later estrangement as Moore became a successful Hollywood film star and Cook remained in the UK.
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Byron
Title: Byron
Character: Lady Caroline Lamb
Released: September 27, 2003
Type: Movie
Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years
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Title: Byron
Character: Caroline Lamb
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: TV
Byron revolutionized English poetry and died a hero. He became famous overnight when the poetic record of his adventures abroad was received with rapture. This rich historical drama explores the true identity of the wild poetic genius who broke every taboo in the book. Byron's affairs and his unconventionality, however, were always destined to bring him down.
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Title: Sparkhouse
Character: Becky Lawton
Released: September 1, 2002
Type: TV
The relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
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Title: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Character: Joanna Sydeham
Released: April 8, 2002
Type: TV
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
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Title: Hornblower
Character: Betsy
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: TV
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.
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Title: Underworld
Released: November 4, 1997
Type: TV
A pair of unexceptional suburban siblings are drawn into a dark web of crime and danger.
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Title: The Grand
Released: April 4, 1997
Type: TV
The Grand is a British television drama series first broadcast on ITV in 1997–1998. It was written by Russell T Davies and set in a hotel in Manchester in the 1920s. There are two series: eight episodes in the first series were broadcast from 4 April 1997 to 23 May 1997 and ten in the second series from 30 January 1998 to 3 April 1998. All 18 episodes were written by Russell T Davies. The cast included Susan Hampshire, Julia St. John, Tim Healy, Michael Siberry, Stephen Moyer and Mark McGann. The two series were novelised by Catrin Collier, under the pen name Katherine Hardy.
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Stone Cold
Title: Stone Cold
Character: Girl
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A young boy, tired of his mother's abusive boyfriend, sets out on an adventure to London, meeting a friendly man. But there is fear on the streets and people are missing. Will Link be next?
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The Treasure Seekers
Title: The Treasure Seekers
Character: Dora
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
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Title: Moonacre
Character: Maria Merryweather
Released: April 6, 1994
Type: TV
Six-part drama filmed in Slovenia based on Elizabeth Goudge's A Little White Horse.
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Title: Bonjour la Classe
Released: February 15, 1993
Type: TV
Bonjour la Classe is a British television comedy series broadcast on BBC1 in 1993. Created and written by Paul Smith and Terry Kyan, the series centered on Laurence Didcott, a new French teacher at prestigious Mansion School. Didcott discovers a prevailing attitude at Mansion, among staff, benefactors and even students and parents, that places what's best for the school ahead of pupils' education and well-being. The scenes at the school were shot in the winter of 1992.
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Title: The Silver Chair
Character: Jill Pole
Released: November 18, 1990
Type: TV
Eustace, along with a new companion named Jill Pole, is brought back to Narnia. The pair are told by Aslan they must search for King Caspian's missing son, Prince Rilian.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
Character: Jill
Released: November 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Eustace is sent to a horrible school and finds a friend in Jill Pole, who's also running from bullies and looking for a place to hide. The two of them are magically transported from the garden shed into the magical world of Narnia, where they are entrusted with a task by Aslan: to rescue the king's stolen son, Prince Rilian. Together with Puddleglum the Marshwiggle, they must travel north across the mountains, dodge giants, and journey down into the earth itself to rescue Rilian from the mysterious evil that holds him bound there.
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Title: The Chronicles of Narnia
Character: Jill Pole
Released: November 13, 1988
Type: TV
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated from London at the beginning of the Second World War, little dreaming of the magical adventures that lie ahead.
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Title: The Chronicles of Narnia
Released: November 13, 1988
Type: TV
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated from London at the beginning of the Second World War, little dreaming of the magical adventures that lie ahead.
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A Summer Story
Title: A Summer Story
Character: Sabina Halliday
Released: August 11, 1988
Type: Movie
A bittersweet tale of lost love, based on a short story ("The Apple Tree") by John Galsworthy.