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Meet Callie Cooke, who plays Jodie in F1: The Movie – the actress appears alongside Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, and rose to fame in her native UK on Cheaters and Doctor Who with Ncuti Gatwa
Actress Callie Cooke, 31, has come a long way since making her on-screen debut nearly a decade ago in a 2016 episode of BBC's long-running medical show, Doctors.
Callie Cooke at the European premiere of F1, in London on June 23. Photo: Reuters
In 2022, Cooke snagged a leading role in the BBC sitcom Cheaters, and last year she appeared in an episode of the beloved sci-fi series Doctor Who alongside the first Black actor in the role,
Ncuti Gatwa
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Cooke's most recent project, F1, starring
Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, is her most high-profile to date. Here's everything to know about Callie Cooke.
She always wanted to become an actress
Callie Cooke, seen here repping Miu Miu, always wanted to be an actress. Photo: @callie_cooke/Instagram
Raised in Stratford-upon-Avon in England, Cooke revealed in an interview with 1883 magazine that her first introduction to acting came through TV soap operas.
'I was always watching TV and I was blown away by these soap actors that you thought were real people,' she said. 'It's such a comfort thing. Both my parents worked a lot, and it was the one thing that would get us all together on an evening.'
Stratford-upon-Avon is famously the birthplace of William Shakespeare, and Cooke's fascination with acting was also fuelled by growing up near the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
'I saw the most unbelievable actors [there], and I always thought it's what I would work in,' she told 1883.
Her first role earned her an award nomination
