Sophie Ward

Her television work includes the mini-series A Dark Adapted Eye with Helena Bonham Carter and the fantasy, Dinotopia. More recently, Sophie had the recurring role of Helen Trent in long-running ITV drama Heartbeat. In 2008, Ward joined the cast of Holby City in a recurring role as Sophia Byrne.

Her most recent films are Out of Bounds (2003), in which she co-stars with Sophia Myles and Celia Imrie, and Book of Blood (2008), co-starring Jonas Armstrong and Reg Fuller. She also recently appeared in Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre (2011). She has worked with Susan Sarandon in The Hunger directed by Tony Scott, Liv Ullmann in A Time of Indifference [it] directed by Mauro Bolognini and Elizabeth Taylor in Young Toscanini directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

She married veterinary surgeon Paul Hobson in 1988, and the couple have two sons, Nathanial (b. 1989) and Joshua (b. 1993). They divorced in 1996 after Ward became involved with Korean-American writer Rena Brannan, and came out as a lesbian. Ward and Brannan had a civil partnership ceremony in 2005, followed by marriage after it was legalised in 2014.

Ward had long been considered a 'Face of the 1980s' as a Vogue model.

Sophie Anna Ward (born 30 December 1964) is an English actress. Early in her career she played Elizabeth Hardy, the love interest of Sherlock Holmes in the film Young Sherlock Holmes. Even earlier, in 1983, at the age of 19, she had a brief, non-speaking role at the very end of the Tony Scott vampire movie, "The Hunger". In the credits, her character is listed as "Girl In London House".