Polly Walker is a British theater performer, actress, and TV personality. Despite shifting her interest after being injured as a dancer, she glories in her flourishing career. She received secondary and primary roles in several movies and TV shows.
At the present moment, Polly is most famous for her portrayal in the American streaming TV period drama Bridgerton as Portia Featherington. Let us focus on Poly Walker’s personal relationship: Is she married to a husband? Here is the list of movies and tv shows that Polly has performed.
Polly Walker as Bridgerton Cast Portia Featherington
Polly Walker is the Featherington matriarch, Portia Featherington. Lady Portia is the manipulative mother of three daughters and the wife of Archibald, Baron Featherington. She starts the Featherington trademark with a compulsory color pattern for her entire kindred – plenty of yellow and vivid shade.
Portia can be challenging to summon empathy now and then. She understands that her family does not possess the same luxury and social status as Bridgerton. However, it won’t stop her from finding the absolute husband for her three girls. She can appear selfish and overbold in her insane struggles towards landing matches for Prudence, Philipa, and Penelope. Not to mention that she also needs to oversee Marina Thompson, who also joined this year’s social season.
Unlike Lady Bridgerton, Lady Featherington is skilled in giving the rare shady good-mom plot to enable her daughters to excel in society. She’s also very eager to dispose of Marina, who appears to be stealing the show from her precious daughters.
At the end of season 1, Portia Featherington became widowed after Baron Featherington was murdered. And their family was assumed broke, and their estate was put into grave jeopardy.
Polly Walker from Bridgerton finds her character in the series an interesting one. According to her, it’s a lot more enjoyable to portray a bit controversial person than to be a sentimental introvert. “She’s controversial as she’s extremely intrusive and determined.” Portia can go deeper into the scene and analyze paths that an average woman wouldn’t delve into. For Polly, her character was such a clever, enjoyable role to portray since she needs to be so creative.
The actress also added that Portia Featherington was only striving to continue to live in Regency England, where women have no authority aside from being wedded. However, Portia is a strong woman and does all she can to marry her girls off.
Is Polly Walker Married to a husband?
Polly Walker is happily wedded to her husband, Laurence Penry-Jones. Laurence is a decade older than Polly. The two got married on the 23rd of October 2008 in grand matrimony after three years of dating. They lived together in the United States for a couple of years. Then in 2015, Polly and her husband decided to return to London.
Thanks to their perseverance and superb talent, the couple has built a reputation for themselves in the film industry. Laurence Penry-Jones is a former actor famous for his appearances in Waking the Dead, Doctors, and The Forsyte Saga.
Polly’s husband is from a family of actors and actresses. His father is the late Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones and his mother is the former English actress Angela Thorne. You might also be familiar with Rupert Penry-Jones – well, they’re brothers.
According to some reports, before settling down with Laurence, Polly did have a relationship with a non-showbiz man for several years. They shared two gorgeous girls. The two welcomed their eldest in 1994, Giorgio Walker; then the youngest in 2000, Delilah Walker. However, they parted ways around the early 2000s, and later, Laurence arrived in their life.
And now, as of 2021, Polly, Laurence, and the kids are happily living together without signs of conflict.
Movies and TV shows
Acting was never Polly’s first choice of profession as she was a talented dancer. However, she shifted her career due to a leg injury when she was 18. Progressively, she earned a reputation in this line of work.
Polly started her career in the 1989 TV series Storyboard as a cameo Margaret Niner, followed by the mini-series Rules of Engagement as Fiona. She was cast as the leading character in the 1990 film Lorne Doone a year later.
She had her first breakthrough during the 1992 American action thriller film Patriot Games, starring Harrison Ford. After the film’s success, Polly was featured in the British TV series State of Play as Anne Collins for six episodes.
Bridgerton star was pretty much active during the 1990s and early 2000s, acting in different films, including The Trial, Restoration, Robinson Crusoe, The Gambler The Woodlanders, Curtain Call, Dark Harbor, 8 1/2 Women, After Alice, Savage Messiah, Jeffrey Archer: The Truth, and Control. Polly received a nomination at the 23rd Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.
In 2005, she portrayed the character of Atia of the Julii in the historical drama series Rome. Due to her stellar performance in Rome, she was nominated at the Golden Globe Award for the Best Actress – Television Series Drama category and the Satellite Award for the Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film category.
Her other TV series credits include Waking the Dead as Catherine Braithwaite, Cane as Ellis Samuels, Caprica as Clarice Willow, Prisoners’ Wives as Francesca, The Mentalist as FBI Agent Alexa Shultz, Warehouse as Charlotte Dupres, Mr. Selfridge as Delphine Day, The Syndicate as DI Baker, Line of Duty as Gill Biggeloe, Paranoid as Monica Wayfield, Age Before Beauty as Bel, and Pennyworth as Peggy Sykes.
Not considering the several TV appearances and film roles she made for the last few years, Polly Walker is among the actresses constantly in the lineup for secondary roles.
Age, Wiki. (Parents, Siblings, Education, etc.)
Polly Walker, known by her family as Polly Alexandra Walker, is 55 years of age as of 2021. On May 19, 1966, she was born in Warrington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of a retired school teacher Georgiana Walker and a hotelier Giorgio Walker. She had a brother, Daniel Walker, and two sisters, Hannah and Emma Walker.
Rome actress graduated from ‘Padgate Church of England Primary School’ in Warrington and the ‘Silverdale Preparatory School,’ West Acton, London.
At the age of 4, she began her training in ballet dancing since she was inspired by her cousin who attended ‘Royal Ballet.’ She went to Rambert Ballet School and graduated when she was 16.
Due to some unforeseen circumstances, she had to stop her training in 1984 because she suffered a leg injury. Her ankles couldn’t endure the strenuous ballet training anymore based on her medical examination.
Polly eventually discovered her true devotion to acting after entering the Drama Centre London. Likewise, she enrolled in the Royal Shakespeare Company and continued with her newfound passion as an actress.