Victoria Yeates - Wikipedia Victoria Yeates Victoria Yeates Victoria Natalie Yeates ( 1983 - 04 - 19 ) April 19, 1983 ( age 35 ) Bournemouth, Dorset, England Occupation Actress Victoria Natalie Yeates ( born April 19, 1983 ) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Sister Winifred in the period drama series Call the Midwife. She will appear in the upcoming film Fantastic Beasts : The Crimes of Grindelwald. Yeates was born and raised in Bournemouth, Dorset and practised ballet dancing as a child. In 2006, she earned a degree in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ). She began her career on the stage, earning critical praise for her roles in Noël Coward 's Private Lives, in the Rookery Nook and in Michael McClure 's The Beard. In 2017, she began touring in a production of Arthur Miller 's The Crucible. In 2014, she joined the cast of the BBC period drama Call the Midwife as Sister Winifred, a midwife who moves to Poplar, London in the late 1950s to work at Nonnatus House. She is engaged to musician Paul Housden, with whom she lives in London. References Jump up ^ `` Happy Birthday, Victoria Yeates ! ''. The Leaky Cauldron. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2018. Jump up ^ Bley Griffiths, Eleanor ( 6 February 2018 ). `` Fantastic Beasts ' newest star Victoria Yeates on working with her `` role model '' JK Rowling ``. Radio Times. Retrieved 5 May 2018. ^ Jump up to : Jupp, Emily ( 21 February 2017 ). `` Victoria Yeates talks nuns, # CallTheMidwife and her new role in The Crucible ''. The Independent. Retrieved 5 May 2018. Jump up ^ Russell, Rachel ( 9 February 2017 ). `` Call The Midwife 's Victoria Yeates swaps the nunnery with witchcraft ''. East London and West Essex Guardian Series. Retrieved 5 May 2018. Jump up ^ Benyon, Lucy ( 15 January 2018 ). `` Victoria Yeates : Five things I ca n't live without - Fiancé, literature and meditation ''. The Express. Retrieved 5 May 2018. External links Victoria Yeates on IMDb Victoria Yeates on Twitter This article about a British television actor or actress is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria_Yeates&oldid=856173088 '' Categories : 1983 births Living people People from Bournemouth English television actresses Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 21st - century English actresses British television actor stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hCards Twitter username same as Wikidata All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 23 August 2018, at 10 : 57 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: who plays sister winifred in call the midwife
Answer: Victoria Natalie Yeates