Sophie Winkleman

Sophie Lara Winkleman (born 5 August 1980) is an English actress. She is the wife of Lord Frederick Windsor, son of Queen Elizabeth II's first cousin Prince Michael of Kent, and as such is also known as Lady Frederick Windsor.

Winkleman was born in Primrose Hill, London.Her father, Barry Winkleman, published the Times Atlas of World History, her mother is the children's author Cindy Black, and her half-sister by her father's first marriage is the television presenter Claudia Winkleman. Sophie Winkleman was educated at the City of London School for Girls and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she studied English Literature. She joined the Cambridge Footlights and wrote and performed in the comic revue Far Too Happy, which toured Britain for three months and garnered the troupe's first Perrier Award nomination in 20 years. She joined the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain in 1997. She is also a soprano, reprising her singing in the First Love series for Sky Arts.