Personal details
Born:
- Birthday: 1990-05-15
- Born Place: Sussex, England, UK
Also Known As:
소피 쿡슨, Sophie Louise L Cookson, 蘇菲・庫克森, سوفی کوکسون
Sophie Cookson
Sophie Cookson is a prominent English actress born on May 15, 1990, in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The daughter of Colin Cookson, a finance professional, and Marie Louise Cookson, an English teacher, she was raised in Sussex and later Suffolk. Her passion for the arts began at age ten when she joined the British Youth Music Theatre and toured Japan. After attending Woodbridge School, she initially enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to study Art History, Spanish, and Arabic; however, she soon left to pursue professional training at the Oxford School of Drama, graduating in 2013.Cookson’s career launched while she was still in drama school with a role in the miniseries Moonfleet (2013). Her major international breakthrough arrived in 2014 when she was cast as the elite secret agent Roxy Morton (Lancelot) in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, beating out several established actresses for the role. She later reprised this character in the 2017 sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Her filmography expanded with roles in the dark fantasy The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016) as Pippa, the lead in the horror film The Crucifixion (2017), and the satire Greed (2019). In 2018, she portrayed the younger version of the title character in Red Joan alongside Judi Dench.On television, Cookson is widely recognized for her powerful lead performance in the BBC miniseries The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019), where she portrayed the real-life figure at the center of the Profumo affair. She also starred as Sidney Pierce in the Netflix psychological thriller Gypsy (2017) and Madame Marguerite Benham in The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2022). Her stage work includes a notable West End debut in 2018, starring opposite Orlando Bloom in a revival of Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe at the Trafalgar Studios.As of late 2025, Cookson has continued to diversify her roles, starring in the romantic comedy This Time Next Year (2024) and the historical action film Stockholm Bloodbath (2024). Her latest work includes the espionage thriller The Hive (2025), where she plays Interpol agent Maria Gomez. In a significant personal pivot, Cookson announced in May 2025 that she had become a certified yoga teacher following a "radical reset" for her well-being. She has been in a relationship with actor Stephen Campbell Moore since 2018; the couple met on the set of Red Joan and has one daughter, born in 2020.
