Tuppence Middleton

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Bristol, England (1987)

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The poster features an abstract portrayal of eight heads spiralling out from a central point, resembling a sample under a microscope. The eight heads belong to the main characters of the series, Sun Bak (a South Korean woman portrayed by Bae Doona), Nomi Marks (a white trans woman from San Francisco protrayed by Jamie Clayton), Kala Dandekar (an Indian woman portrayed by Tina Desai), Riley Blue (a white Icelandic woman portrayed by Tuppence Middleton), Wolfgang Bogdanow (a white German man portrayed by Max Riemelt), Lito Rodriguez (a Mexican man portrayed by Miguel Ángel Silvestre), Will Gorski (a white man from Chicago portrayed by Brian J. Smith), and Capheus Onyango (a black Kenyan man portrayed by Aml Ameen). The background is a mixed gradient of various greens and blues. The series title, "Sense8," is written with "Sense" in light green and "8" in black across the centre of the poster. Above the title, centered between two heads is the series tagline "I am we."
The eight central characters are arrayed in a diagonal cluster along the upper right side of the poster. Beneath them, a mirrored projection of the London cityscape slices diagonally downwards and cuts them out of the poster's bottom left corner, which features the series title, "Sense8," as well as the second season's tagline, "Survive. Together." At the top left of the cluster of people is Sun Bak, a South Korean woman with short black hair in a bright blue prison uniform, portrayed by Bae Doona, who stares achingly off to the left. Below her is Will Gorski, a white man with close-cropped brown hair and facial stubble wearing a plain grey shirt, portrayed by Brian J. Smith, who stares slightly down past camera with a frown. A little further to the right is Lito Rodriguez, a Mexican man with black hair and facial stubble wearing a dark blue shirt, portrayed by Miguel Ángel Silvestre, who also stares down past camera with a frown. Above Will and Lito, to Sun's right, Wolfgang Bogdanow embaces Kala Dandekar from behind. Wolfgang is a white German man with blonde hair and a beard wearing dark clothes, portrayed by Max Riemelt. Kala is an Indian woman with long black hair wearing a sheer black dress with bare shoulders, portrayed by Tina Desai. Both are smiling. Beneath them, to the right of Lito is Capheus Onyango, a bald black Kenyan man with a light blue shirt portrayed by Toby Onwumere, who looks off to the left mid-speech. To the right of and slightly above Capheus is Nomi Marks, a white trans woman with long brown hair wearing a peach dress, portrayed by Jamie Clayton, who stands in profile and looks off to the right. Finally, at the bottom right of the cluster is Riley Blue, a white Icelandic woman with bleached-blonde hair featuring a prominent streak of blue paint, wearing a dark red hand-knit sweater, portrayed by Tuppence Middleton, who stares off slightly to the right.
The eight central characters stand in a lineup on a rooftop with a sliver of a modern city-scape visible at the level of their knees, and a vast cloudy sky behind them rendered in the same light blue-green color as the Season 1 poster. Large blocky white text above the characters reads "Together until the end", and smaller text below the characters reads "Sense8: The Series Finale." Front and centre in the lineup is Sun Bak, a South Korean woman with black hair in a bob-cut, wearing a black-and blue checkered shirt and yoga pants, portrayed by Bae Doona. Behind Sun on the left is Lito Rodriguez, a Mexican man with short black hair wearing a dark blue dress shirt and black pants, portrayed by Miguel Ángel Silvestre. Behind Lito on the left is Capheus Onyango, a bald black Kenyan man wearing a blue-and-white sweater over a red shirt with grey pants, portrayed by Toby Onwumere, with his arms crossed in front of his chest. Behind Capheus on the left is Riley Blue, a white Icelandic woman with bleached blonde hair featuring a prominent streak of blue paint, wearing a black coat and a brown skirt with dark blue leggins, portrayed by Tuppence Middleton, with one arm reaching across her chest to grasp the elbow of her other arm. Behind Riley on the left is Will Gorski, a white man from Chicago with close-cropped dark hair, wearing a black leather jacket over a dark blue shirt with black pants, portrayed by Brian J. Smith, with his hands in his jacket pockets. Behind Sun on the right is Nomi Marks, a white trans woman from San Francisco with long brown hair, wearing a sweater with an orange, blue and grey pattern and a short dark blue skirt, portrayed by Jamie Clayton. Behind Nomi on the right is Wolfgang Bogdanow, a white German man with short blonde hair wearing a black leather jacket over a dark shirt with jeans, portrayed by Max Riemelt. Behind Wolfgang on the right is Kala Dandekar, an Indian woman with long black hair, wearing a purple-patterned shirt and a knee-lenght beige skirt, portrayed by Tina Desai.
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Tuppence Middleton (born 21 February 1987) is an English actress. She was nominated for the London Evening Standard Film Awards 2010 for Most Promising Newcomer. Since 2015, she portrays Riley Blue in the Netflix webseries Sense8.

She has appeared in feature films such as Tormented (2009), Chatroom (2010), Cleanskin (2012), Trance (2013), The Lady Vanishes (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), and Jupiter Ascending (2015), as well as in television series such as Bones (2008), New Tricks (2010), Friday Night Dinner (2011), Sinbad (2012), Spies of Warsaw (2013), Black Mirror (2013), and Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017).

She starred in two British period dramas screened around the same time, Dickensian (2015-16), playing Miss Havisham, and War & Peace (2016), in which she played Russian princess and villain Hélène Kuragina.

Tuppence Middleton was born on 21 February 1987 in Bristol, England, to Nigel and Tina Middleton. She was named "Tuppence" after the childhood nickname her grandmother gave to her mother. She was raised in Clevedon, Somerset, with older brother Josh (now frontman of heavy metal band Sylosis, and lead guitarist of Architects) and older sister Angel.

She attended Bristol Grammar School, an independent day school where she was involved in school plays, including Guys and Dolls, in which she played the lead role. She also attended Stagecoach, a performing arts school in Portishead. She appeared in local drama productions, including a pantomime at the Princes Hall, Clevedon, with her sister.

She subsequently studied acting at the Arts Educational School in Chiswick, London, earning an honours degree in acting.

Middleton gained a following for her appearance in the 2009 British horror/comedy Tormented. Her character, head girl Justine Fielding, dates one of the most popular boys in school, only to find that he and his friends were responsible for a classmate's death. She has also appeared in adverts for the chewing gum Extra and Sky TV.

In 2010 she was nominated for the London Evening Standard Film Awards 2010 for Most Promising Newcomer and she starred in Samuel Abrahams's BAFTA-nominated short film "Connect". In 2011, she played the character Tanya Greene in the British sitcom Friday Night Dinner, and Sarah in Sirens. In 2012 she appeared in Cleanskin, a terrorist thriller. In March 2013 she made her professional theatre debut in The Living Room. She also played a minor role in the Danny Boyle film Trance. In 2015, she starred in the Netflix Original Series Sense8 as Riley Blue.

She starred in the 2016 BBC drama War & Peace, playing Russian aristocrat Princess Hélène Kuragina. The series received critical acclaim and featured fellow young actress Lily James also known for her period dramas. The Daily Express said: "Rising star Tuppence Middleton takes on the role of the delightfully evil Hélène Kuragina, who is one half of the incestuous duo. Audiences witnessed her brother getting a little too intimate with his sibling in the first episode before she turned her attentions to Pierre and dug her claws into him. She is a vile character who will use and abuse Pierre without giving him a second thought." Andrew Davies, who adapted War and Peace, described Middleton's Hélène as "the naughtiest woman on TV at the moment".

IMDb. “Tuppence Middleton - Biography.” Accessed July 20, 2023. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3095562/bio/.
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IMDb. “Tuppence Middleton - Biography.” Accessed July 20, 2023. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3095562/bio/.