A young actor has landed her first expert function taking part in Kate Middleton in hit Netflix collection The Crown.
Meg Bellamy, 19, a former head girl at St Crispin’s school in Wokingham, Berkshire, was picked after submitting a self-taped audition after a casting call put out on social media.
Also making their display screen debuts will be Ed McVey, 21, and Rufus Kampa, 16, who will both play younger versions of the Duchess of Cambridge’s now-husband, Prince William.
All three will appear in the show’s sixth and final series, which will start shooting later this year.
The Crown is a historic drama chronicling the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, with the sixth sequence predicted to depict the years after the loss of life of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.
Kampa will reportedly play Prince William in the instantaneous aftermath of his mother’s death, while McVey and Bellamy will play the duke and duchess in the course of their time as college students at the University of St Andrews, where they met in 2001.
Bellamy is understood to have won the function only months after leaving St Crispin’s, a comprehensive, and has no professional appearing experience, the Daily Telegraph reported.
She was reportedly awarded an A* in her drama A-level and starred in a variety of college productions, and is additionally said to have worked as a performer at Legoland in nearby Windsor.
McVey graduated from the Drama Centre London in 2021 and has labored as an understudy in the play Camp Siegfried at the Old Vic, but is but to appear on screen.
Kampa has regarded in a wide variety of stage productions, most currently as the title character in a musical version of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 & 3/4s, and as the Artful Dodger in Oliver!
Other stars to have regarded in The Crown encompass Olivia Colman, who performed the Queen; Matt Smith, who played Prince Philip; and Helena Bonham Carter, who performed Princess Margaret.
The fifth series, due to air in November, will encompass a complete new cast, with Imelda Staunton as the Queen, Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, and Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret.
The sequence will additionally feature Dominic West as Prince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales.
Asked about the exhibit remaining year, Prince Harry described it as “fictional” but “loosely based totally on the truth”.
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