Karla Crome is enjoying success as a scriptwriter for stage and television as well as a blossoming career in acting. She starred in the brilliant BBC2 drama Murder, which won a BAFTA for Best Single Drama, and has been the stand-out actor in her other lead roles in ITV's The Level, Misfits, Prisoner’s Wives, Under The Dome (Steven Spielberg), Sky's You, Me and the Apocolypse, Lightfields and Hit and Miss with Chloe Sevigny. It was this show that caught the attention of Screen International who profiled Crome in the prestigious annual Stars of Tomorrow portfolio. Previous names include Keira Knightley, Robert Pattinson and Carey Mulligan.
Theatre credits include the National Theatre's sensational reimagining of Amadeus by Peter Shaffer who is famous for his play EQUUS;
Karla Crome is enjoying success as a scriptwriter for stage and television as well as a blossoming career in acting. She starred in the brilliant BBC2 drama Murder, which won a BAFTA for Best Single Drama, and has been the stand-out actor in her other lead roles in ITV's The Level, Misfits, Prisoner’s Wives, Under The Dome (Steven Spielberg), Sky's You, Me and the Apocolypse, Lightfields and Hit and Miss with Chloe Sevigny. It was this show that caught the attention of Screen International who profiled Crome in the prestigious annual Stars of Tomorrow portfolio. Previous names include Keira Knightley, Robert Pattinson and Carey Mulligan.
Theatre credits include the National Theatre's sensational reimagining of Amadeus by Peter Shaffer who is famous for his play EQUUS; Linda at the Royal Court Theatre opposite Noma Dumezweni and most recently, in the UK premiere of Claire Baron’s award-winning play Dance Nation at The Almedia Theatre.
As a writer, Crome won an Edinburgh Fringe Festival Award for her critically acclaimed stage play Mush and Me, which she created and penned about the forbidden love between a Jewish girl and Muslim boy. She is currently developing her play Mush and Me for C4 with Bronte Film and TV. Further writing credits include Sky One’s Hooten and the Lady starring Ophelia Lovibond and Jane Seymour, and most recently Safe starring Michael C. Hall, Freddie Thorpe and Hero Fiennes Tiffin.
Projects this year include The Victim for ITV with Kelly MacDonald (Trainspotting) and John Hannah; in film she has Vita and Virginia alongside Elizabeth Debicki and Gemma Arterton out in July. She will also be seen playing Tourmaline in the new Amazon Original series Carnival Row opposite Cara Delevingne, Indira Varma and Orlando Bloom.
