Charlotte Cornwell Biography

Fast Facts

• Best known for performing the character of Jeannie Summersbee in an episode of the police procedural English television series “Midsomer Murders” in 2015
• She studied drama at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and made her professional debut as an actress performing in plays before later joining the famous Royal Shakespeare Company
• She performed the character of Muriel Renfrew in the episode “Red John's Friends” of the police procedural television series “The Mentalist” in 2009
• She is the half-sister of writer John le Carré and he based the main character of his novel “The Little Drummer Girl” published in 1983 on her and her radical political views