Early life

Myles was born in London. Her mother, Jane (née Allan), works in educational publishing, and her father, Peter R. Myles, is a retired Church of England vicar in Isleworth, West London. Her maternal grandmother was Russian, and Myles refers to herself as "half-Welsh, half-Russian". She grew up in Notting Hill and attended Fox Primary School. At the age of 11, she moved with her family to Isleworth and attended the Green School. Following success at her A-levels, she had been planning to study philosophy at Cambridge, but chose to pursue an acting career after being spotted by Julian Fellowes in a school play.

Career

Since 1996, Myles has appeared in a number of films and television productions. In 2001, she got a small role as Victoria Abberline in the thriller film From Hell. She had a supporting role in the 2003 film Underworld and its sequel Underworld: Evolution (in a brief flashback scene). In 2003, she starred in the thriller Out of Bounds and played Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds. In 2006, she co-starred as Isolde in the romantic drama Tristan and Isolde.

Myles appeared as Madame de Pompadour in the 2006 Doctor Who episode "The Girl in the Fireplace". The episode was nominated for a Nebula Award and won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. She co-starred in 2006's comedy film Art School Confidential. Also in 2006, she appeared as Lucy Westenra in a BBC adaptation of Dracula. In 2007, she played Freya in Outlander.

Myles was cast in the CBS supernatural television drama Moonlight. She was nominated for the Best Actress Award in 2007 for her role in Hallam Foe from the British Independent Film Award committee, for which she also received a BAFTA Scotland Award. Moonlight won for Best New Drama in the 2007 People's Choice Awards. In 2010, she joined Spooks, a BBC series about a counter-terrorism unit in MI5, for its ninth series, playing Beth Bailey. She appeared in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014).

Personal life

In 2004, Myles was in a relationship with actor Charles Dance. They met while working on The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. From 2005 to 2007, she dated actor David Tennant, with whom she had acted in Foyle's War and the Doctor Who episode "The Girl in the Fireplace".

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	The Prince and the Pauper	Lady Jane Grey
1998	Big Women	Saffron
1999	Mansfield Park	Susan Price
1999	Guest House Paradiso	Saucy Wood Nymph
2001	From Hell	Victoria Abberline
2001	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Kate Nickleby	Television film
2002	The Abduction Club	Anne Kennedy
2003	Underworld	Erika
2003	Out of Bounds	Louise Thompson
2004	Thunderbirds	Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward
2005	Colditz	Lizzie Carter	Television film
2006	Tristan & Isolde	Isolde
2006	Underworld: Evolution	Erika	Flashback scene
2006	Art School Confidential	Audrey
2006	Dracula	Lucy Westenra
2006	Covert One: The Hades Factor	Sophie Amsden	Television film
2007	Hallam Foe	Kate Breck
2008	Outlander	Freya
2012	A Sunny Morning	Grace	Short film
2013	Gallows Hill	Lauren	Direct-to-VOD
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Darcy Tirrel

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Oliver Twist	Agnes Fleming	Miniseries
2001	Heartbeat	Heather Conway	Episode: "No Hiding Place"
2002	Foyle's War	Susan Gascoigne	Episode: "A Lesson in Murder
2003	Coming Up	Nina	1 episode
2006	Doctor Who	Madame de Pompadour	Episode: "The Girl in the Fireplace"
2006	Extras	Herself
2006	Agatha Christie's Marple	Gwenda Halliday	Episode: "Sleeping Murder"
2007	Moonlight	Beth Turner	16 episodes
2010	Spooks	Beth Bailey	8 episodes
2013	Gallows Hill	Lauren Reynolds
2013	Blackwood	Rachel Marshall
2014	Our Zoo	Lady Katherine
2014	Crossing Lines	Dr. Anna Clarke	2 episodes
2014	Panorama	Narrator	Episode: "Last Chance Academy"

Music videos

Year	Artist	Song
2002	Bush	"Inflatable"
2003	Ronan Keating	"Love Won't Work (If We Don't Try)"
2006	Gavin DeGraw	"We Belong Together"

[ Source: Wikipedia ]