Karla Crome
With the announcement that she will be a part of ITV’s upcoming drama series Lightfields, it’s fair to say that Karla Crome is easily the most rapidly rising star of British TV.
Last year she had a bit part in Doctors and Casualty and an ultra-low budget TV film to her credit.
Now, Karla Crome’s gotten herself centre sage on not just one, but three of this year’s most interesting dramas on TV.
Firstly, there was this Sky Atlantic’s Hit & Miss, the troubled and slightly inconsistent drama about a transsexual assassin struggling to keep personal and professional life both functional when she has to take care of a struggling family.
While the show may have had its problems, and was more inconsistent than a lumpy bowl of custard, Karla Crome, who played the family’s eldest girl Mia, was easily the show’s best asset, raw emotion and conflicted pain in a thinly veiled package.
We were able to talk to Karla after her role in Hit and Miss right here. Even then though, we didn’t know she was going to be in crime drama Murder.
While it may not be too much of a move away in terms of genre, but Karla Crome becoming the face of the BBC’s much vaunted Danish influenced drama was a real stepping stone.
Portraying the haunted Coleen, Crome was once again superb, portraying the deepest and most complex of emotions and feelings in the simplest of facial movements. Her economy of acting is something to be revered.
While we currently have no idea about her impact will be in the latest series of the magnificent Misfits, but the fact that she is becoming the main super girl on the show speaks volumes on the faith the show’s producers have in her and we’re sure she’s not going to disappoint.
After an absolutely stellar 2012, and a couple of really tasty looking projects lined up for next year including Lightfields, Karla Crome has had one of the best years of anyone in the British acting community.
We can’t escape the feeling that she’s going to have a few more to match it.
FemaleFirst Cameron Smith