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
Richie Stephens (actor) at the age of 10 under the instruction of acting coach Claire McDermott but worked a variety of different jobs before returning to the craft. Right before his acting career took off, Stephens was a carpenter until an accident in San Francisco resulted in a broken back. Stephens told The Anglo-Celt, "Before it happened, I was quite happy being a carpenter, so, I probably wouldn't have gotten back into acting if it hadn't happened." While working as a model, Stephens was discovered by director Weston Simpson, who cast him as a German hitman in his film Credence. Within months of