Anna-Louise Plowman From 2016-2017 she played chamber maid Mrs. Hudson in the hit series "Black Sails", which starred Toby Stephens. Plowman attended the Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, New Zealand between 1982 and 1989, where she graduated from Form 7. She later attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Lecoq School in Paris. Plowman married actor Toby Stephens, who is the son of actors Dame Maggie Smith and the late Sir Robert Stephens, in London, in 2001. In May 2007, Plowman and Stephens had their first child, a son named Eli Alistair. Simon Gray, the renowned British playwright (who
Toby Flenderson he gave her the opportunity to do so for dating and dumping her mother, showing that he enjoys seeing Michael suffer to a degree. Toby has on occasion stood up to Michael such as in "Classy Christmas" when Michael tries to accuse Toby of destroying Holly's beloved Woody doll, to which Toby immediately responds that the vandalism is something that Michael would do, to which everyone agrees. Toby seems to have a strong ability to absorb Michael's abuse as seen in "Goodbye Toby" where he is given a potential opportunity to complain about Michael's antics and after Michael threatens to