Early life and education

Born in Bristol to Welsh parents, Nixon and her six brothers were raised in Pontypridd, Wales, where she attended Coedylan Comprehensive School, now known as Pontypridd High School.

After high school, Nixon trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff alongside Tom Cullen and Aneurin Barnard. Before her graduation in 2007, she signed to Universal Studios after appearing in a college production of The Comedy of Errors. She is a former member of the National Youth Theatre of Wales.

Career

Television and film career

Nixon's career began in autumn 2007, when she starred as the motherless Sophy Hutton in the BBC One costume drama series Cranford, opposite Dame Judi Dench. In 2008, she had supporting roles in the films Wild Child and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.

Nixon appeared in Easy Virtue and played one of the leads in Cherrybomb opposite Rupert Grint and Robert Sheehan, before starring in Black Death. In 2011, Nixon played Josie in the Channel 4 TV comedy drama series Fresh Meat, and starred alongside Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough and Iwan Rheon in Resistance, an adaptation of an Owen Sheers novel, which was released in the UK November 2011.

Nixon appeared in the musical film Hunky Dory, which is set in 1976 Swansea, with Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard and George MacKay, directed by Marc Evans. The film premièred at the 55th BFI London Film Festival on 25 October 2011, and was released officially on 2 March 2012 in the UK.

Nixon starred alongside Jaime Winstone and Aneurin Barnard in Elfie Hopkins and the Gammons, a horror film about an aspiring teen detective who stumbles into her first real case when investigating the mysterious new family, the Gammons, in her neighbourhood. The film was released on 20 April 2012.

In 2012, Nixon starred in the movie Offender, a thriller about a man who sets up his own imprisonment in order to avenge the assault of his girlfriend. She also had leading roles in the ITV drama series "Kidnap and Ransom" and the BBC Two TV comedy drama series Hebburn, alongside Chris Ramsey and Vic Reeves. The sitcom is written by standup comic Jason Cook and is based on his experiences of growing up in the north-east of England.

On June 2013, Nixon starred in "Greenshaw's Folly" in the sixth series of ITV's Agatha Christie's Marple, with Matt Willis, Fiona Shaw, Julia Sawalha, Vic Reeves and Martin Compston. This episode is based on two Agatha Christie short stories, Greenshaw's Folly and The Thumb Mark of St Peter.

She starred in the 2014 BBC One Wales television remake of Dylan Thomas' radio drama Under Milk Wood as Myfanwy Price.

She also starred in the Playhouse Presents one-off episode The Dog Thrower, with Matthew Perry and Tim Key, which aired on 1 May on Sky Arts.

Nixon will be starring in the upcoming Sky 1 medical drama Critical, with Lennie James, Emma Fryer and Paul Bazely. She also will be starring in a Welsh thriller, titled Kingdom of Rain, with Julian Lewis Jones and Robert Kazinsky. The film will be directed by John Langridge, and is currently in pre-production stage.

Theatre career

In September 2008, she made her stage debut as Griet in a tour and London run of an adaptation of Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Personal life

Nixon is a supporter of the British Humanist Association.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2008	Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging	Lindsay
	Wild Child	Kate
	Easy Virtue	Hilda Whittaker
2009	Cherrybomb	Michelle
2010	Black Death	Averill
2011	Hunky Dory	Vicki Munro
	Resistance	Bethan
2012	Elfie Hopkins	Pippa
	Offender	Elise
2014	Kingdom of Rain	Cerys

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Cranford	Sophy Hutton	5 episodes
2010	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Egg	Episode: "Three Act Tragedy"
	Law & Order: UK	Sally	Series 3, Episode 6
2011	Midsomer Murders	Cloud	Series 13, Episode 8
2011-2016	Fresh Meat	Josephine "Josie" Jones	Main role, 30 episodes
2012	Kidnap and Ransom	Florence Holland	Series 2
2012-2013	Hebburn	Sarah Pearson	Main role, 2 seasons
2013	Marple	Louisa Oxley	Episode: "Greenshaw's Folly"
2013-present	The Call Centre	Narrator
2014	Under Milk Wood	Myfanwy Price	TV movie
2015	Critical	Doctor Angharad 'Harry' Bennett-Edwards	Main role 9 episodes

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