Camilla Power

Acting

Camilla Power

Born

1976-11-13 (49)

Place of birth

Cork, Munster, Ireland

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Camilla Joy Cynthia Power (born November 13, 1976) is an Irish-born English actress. She is best known for her appearances in the television series Emmerdale and Waterloo Road. Power was born in Cork, Ireland, and is a distant cousin of the actor Tyrone Power. Her great-grandfather was Sir John Power, Member of Parliament for Wimbledon before the Second World War. She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, and started acting from an early age; her first TV appearance was on a chicken nuggets commercial, and an early screen role was as Sabina Halliday in A Summer Story (1988). Power appeared in Channel 4’s The Manageress in 1990 and played Jill Pole in BBC Television’s The …

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 2 titles

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits

Black Mirror poster
8.3

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

Black Mirror

2011

Father Brown poster
7.7

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown

2013

Waterloo Road poster
7.1

Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023. At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?

Waterloo Road

2006

Lewis poster
7.6

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Lewis

2007

Torchwood poster
7.3

The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

Torchwood

2006

The Word poster
6.0

The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom. The show pushed forward the boundaries of youth TV, always coming close to going too far.

The Word

1990

Hornblower poster
7.8

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

Hornblower

1998

The Chronicles of Narnia poster
7.6

The Chronicles of Narnia is a British television miniseries adapting four of C.S. Lewis's books, blending live-action with animation for fantasy elements like Aslan and the creatures. The first series—The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—aired from 13 November to 18 December 1988; the second—Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader—aired from 19 November to 24 December 1989; and the third—The Silver Chair—from 18 November to 23 December 1990. Each series consists of six episodes each.

The Chronicles of Narnia

1988

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries poster
7.4

DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

2002

Trigger Point poster
6.9

For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.

Trigger Point

2022

Murder in Mind poster
8.3

A series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.

Murder in Mind

2001

Showtrial poster
6.9

An anthology series of hotly contested criminal trials that divides the nation and take place in the full glare of the media spotlight.

Showtrial

2021

Showtrial poster
6.9

An anthology series of hotly contested criminal trials that divides the nation and take place in the full glare of the media spotlight.

Showtrial

2021

GamesMaster poster
6.5

GamesMaster was a British television show, screened on Channel 4 from 1992 to 1998, and was the first ever UK television show dedicated to computer and video games.

GamesMaster

1992

The Grand poster
5.1

The Grand is an ITV television drama series created and written by Russell T Davies and starring Rebecca Callard, Tim Healy, Susan Hampshire, Paul Warriner, and Mark McGann. Following WWI, the Bannerman family re-opens the Grand Hotel after a lengthy closure and a costly re-furbishing. The hotel has been in the family for a long time, and John Bannerman and his wife Sarah desperately want to make a go. Their son Stephen has returned from the wars without any physical harm but still suffers from the mental anguish of seeing so many of his comrades-in-arms falling on the battlefield. When they learn that their accountant has squandered what little money they had left, they must turn to John's brother Marcus, a successful businessman who has eschewed any interest in the hotel over the years but now seems ready to plunge into the business with both feet.

The Grand

1997

Injustice poster
7.1

William Travers, an accomplished criminal lawyer living happily with his wife in rural Suffolk, is recovering from a traumatic series of events that have shaken his faith in the legal system when he is drawn into a case involving an old friend.

Injustice

2011

Underworld poster
7.0

A pair of unexceptional suburban siblings are drawn into a dark web of crime and danger.

Underworld

1997

Byron poster
5.0

Byron revolutionized English poetry and died a hero. He became famous overnight when the poetic record of his adventures abroad was received with rapture. This rich historical drama explores the true identity of the wild poetic genius who broke every taboo in the book. Byron's affairs and his unconventionality, however, were always destined to bring him down.

Byron

2003

Perfect Strangers poster
6.7

Daniel Symon comes face to face with his extended family – a cadre of eccentrics, all of whom hiding their own secrets. At a reunion, patriarch Raymond is presented with a copy of the family tree and is enthralled by the complexity of his family ties.

Perfect Strangers

2001

Beck poster
NR

A series about the work of a Missing Persons agency.

Beck

1996

Sparkhouse poster
7.8

The relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights.

Sparkhouse

2002

Bonjour la Classe poster
6.2

Bonjour la Classe is a British television comedy series broadcast on BBC1 in 1993. Created and written by Paul Smith and Terry Kyan, the series centered on Laurence Didcott, a new French teacher at prestigious Mansion School. Didcott discovers a prevailing attitude at Mansion, among staff, benefactors and even students and parents, that places what's best for the school ahead of pupils' education and well-being. The scenes at the school were shot in the winter of 1992.

Bonjour la Classe

1993

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8.0

Moonacre is a 1994 British miniseries loosely based on Elizabeth Goudge's 1946 children's fantasy novel The Little White Horse. Produced and directed by Robin Crichton, and dramatised by William Corlett, the six-part serial stars Camilla Power, Jean Anderson, and Noah Huntley. When Maria Merryweather is orphaned, she must move to Moonacre Manor with her ever-faithful governess, Miss Heliotrope, and her Spaniel, Wiggins. Maria isn't at the Manor long before she discovers that her new home has a tragic past, which she becomes determined to correct.

Moonacre

1994