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 Stephens the time the network picked up the pilot . . . [the producers'] hold on Stephens had expired . . . ." In May 2008, Stephens performed the role of James Bond in a BBC Radio 4 production of Ian Fleming's "Dr. No", as part of the centenary celebration of Fleming's birth. The production was reportedly the first BBC radio dramatisation of the novel though "Moonraker" was on South African radio in 1956, with Bob Holness providing the voice of Bond. He has since appeared in a number of adaptations of other James Bond novels. Also in May 2008, Stock-pot