Catherine Steadman
Catherine Steadman is a British actress and author. Career. Steadman trained at the Oxford School of Drama and made her screen debut playing Julia Bertram in "Mansfield Park". Since then she has appeared in television series such as "The Tudors", "The Inbetweeners", "Fresh Meat", "Midsomer Murders", and "Trying Again". Some of her more notable roles include Nurse Wilson in ITV's "Breathless", Mabel Lane Fox in "Downton Abbey", Maggie Lewis in "Tutankhamun", Gemma in BBC Four's "Bucket", Mrs. Forbes in "Victoria", and Eliza Gestalt in "The Rook". On stage, she has appeared in the West End in  Polly Stenham's award-winning "That Face", the Royal Shakespeare Company's "Oppenheimer" (for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress) and the title role in the West End revival of "Witness for the Prosecution". Steadman's debut novel, the psychological thriller "Something in the Water," was published in June 2018 by Simon & Schuster UK and Penguin Random House USA. Her second novel, "Mr Nobody," was published in January 2020. Her third novel, "The Disappearing Act," was published in June 2021.