Heida Reed
Born
Heiða Rún Sigurðardóttir

(1988-05-22) 22 May 1988
Reykjavík, Iceland
NationalityIcelandic
Alma materDrama Centre London
Occupations
  • Actress
  • model
Years active2008–present

Heiða Rún Sigurðardóttir[1] known by her stage name Heida Reed (HAY-da;[1] born 22 May 1988), is an Icelandic actress and model. She is known for playing parts in One Day, Jo (2013), Silent Witness (2014) and the BBC drama Poldark.[2]

Early and personal life

Reed was born in Iceland, the middle of three children of a music teacher father and a dental hygienist mother.[1][3] She grew up in Breiðholt, Reykjavík,[3][4] and attended Ölduselsskóli.[4] Aged 18, she was recruited by an Icelandic modeling agency,[3] and moved to Mumbai to work as a model in India for two years.[1][3][4][5] When she was 19/20, she settled in London,[6] where she studied drama at Drama Centre London, graduating in 2010.[4][7][5]

As of July 2017, Reed announced through social media that she is engaged to her boyfriend, America-based producer Sam Ritzenberg.[4][8]

Acting career

Reed's first performance was in 2009 in an Edinburgh Fringe production of Camus's Cross Purpose.[4] A reviewer for the Edinburgh Guide considered it "expertly acted and finely paced."[9] In April 2015, Reed co-starred in the world premiere of a new play, Scarlet, by Sam H Freeman at Southwark Playhouse exploring slut-shaming and cyberbullying and their emotional repercussions.[6]

The same year, Reed was cast in a major role in the British historical TV drama Poldark, which was based on the novels of the same title, playing the part of Elizabeth.[1] She appeared in all five seasons of the series.

In 2018, she appeared on the West End in Foxfinder with Iwan Rheon.[10]

In 2021, Reed began portraying FBI Special Agent Jamie Kellett in CBS crime drama series FBI: International.

She played the part of Professor Jocelyn Peabody in the B7 Audio adaptations of some of the Dan Dare stories, which have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra a number of times, most recently in 2022.[11][12]

Filmography

Films

Year Title Role Notes
2010 Dance Like Someone's Watching Gabriella Short film
2011 One Day Ingrid [4][5]
2012 Vampyre Nation Celeste [13]
2013 Eternal Return Isabelle
2022 Against the Ice Naja
2022 Blank Rita
2022 Summerlight... and Then Comes the Night Elísabet

TV Series

Year Title Role Notes
2012 DCI Banks Carmen 2 episodes[14]
2013 Jo Adèle Gauthier Main role
2014 Silent Witness Monica Dreyfus Episode: "Commodity" (2 parts)
2014 The Lava Field: Hraunið Gréta TV miniseries
2015–2019 Poldark Elizabeth Poldark (nee Chynoweth) Main cast (Seasons 1-4) 35 episodes[4]
Season 5 (in flashbacks & hallucinations)
2015 Toast of London Pooky Hook Episode: "Hamm on Toast"
2016 Death in Paradise Eloise Ronson Episode: "Posing in Murder"[15]
2017–2021 Stella Blómkvist Stella Blómkvist Main role[7][4][3][5]
2021–present FBI: International Special Agent Jamie Kellett Main cast
2023 FBI Special Agent Jamie Kellett Guest star

Web series

Year Title Role Notes
2018 Nutritiously Nicola! Olivia Reedy Episode: "Food instability"

Theatre

Year Title Playwright Role Venue Notes
2009 Cross Purpose Albert Camus Maria Edinburgh Festival Fringe C Venues[4][9] Find a Penny Theatre Company[16]
2009 Macbeth Shakespeare The Doctor Un­known Shakespeare in Styria
2011 Top Girls Caryl Churchill Marlene understudy Trafalgar Studios [7]
2015 Scarlet Sam H. Freeman Scarlet Southwark Playhouse Role shared with Lucy Kilpatrick, Jade Ogugua and Asha Reid in unison[17]
2018 Foxfinder Dawn King Judith Covey Ambassadors Theatre [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Francis, Pam (2018-06-04). "Poldark's Heida Reed may play an English rose, but she has global versatility". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  2. ↑ Jamieson, Teddie (14 March 2014). "Heida Reed on Poldark and eating puffins". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Kanal, Christopher (15 February 2018). "Girl. Woman. Actor. Idiot". WOW Magazine. No. 1. 39-42. Retrieved 10 August 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Arnar, Elín (31 October 2015). "Ævintýralegt líf Heiðu". Stundin (in Icelandic). Iceland. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Helgadóttir, Kolbrún P. (8 October 2017). "Erfitt að plana framtíðina". Eftir Vinnu (in Icelandic). Reykjavík, Iceland. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  6. 1 2 "Heida Reed". 1883 Magazine. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Poldark star Heida Reed: 'I'd like to play Miss Julie – she's feisty, complex... and Scandinavian' | Interviews | The Stage". The Stage. 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  8. ↑ "Poldark's Heida Reed engaged to boyfriend Sam Ritzenberg". HELLO!. 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  9. 1 2 "C Cubed Venue, Edinburgh Fringe Festival". EdinburghGuide.com.com. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Poldark star Heida Reed joins cast of Foxfinder - Evening Express". Evening Express. 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  11. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Dan Dare, Series 2, Reign of the Robots 1/2". BBC. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  12. ↑ "Home". Dan Dare Audio. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  13. ↑ Butterfield, Liz (31 July 2013). "True Bloodthirst plot summary and review". Planet Dystopia. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  14. ↑ "DCI Banks: Strange Affair". Soap Boards. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  15. ↑ "Death in Paradise, episode 5:3 details". Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  16. ↑ Eades, Alex (8 August 2009). "Review of Cross Purpose". EdinburghGuide.com. Archived from the original on 1 January 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  17. ↑ "Scarlet at the Southwalk Playhouse". Kickstarter. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
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