Charlotte Salt
Charlotte Salt is an actor, born 1985.
Salt was still a teenager when the BBC put her in Born and Bred, the BBC One series she stayed with from 2002 to 2005, and the standard British-television route ran on from there: an Inspector Lynley case, a Marple, a horror shot abroad called Beneath Still Waters. Then a genuinely odd swerve, two years on the American cable series Wildfire, playing Gillian Parsons on a show about a girl and a racehorse.
What she does well is stop period dialogue sounding embalmed. Costume drama flatters the face and would happily have kept her decorative, but the delivery is modern and unfussy, which is why the frocks keep arriving: Lady Ursula Misseldon in The Tudors, Marguerite in the BBC's The Musketeers, Estrith in the 2007 motion-capture Beowulf, Lady Arabella in a Christmas television romance. She is better at the ones with an edge, and Beneath Still Waters is a nastier film than its shelf position suggests.
The long job is Casualty. Playing Sam Nicholls on Britain's Saturday-night emergency-department institution is the sort of run that buys an actor a decade of national visibility, and it sits under everything else here. Around it she has taken the interesting scraps: Sarah in The Hoarder, Norris in the science-fiction series Pandora, Edwards in the single-location thriller The Chamber, Cheryl in the film of Everybody's Talking About Jamie. Her Wikipedia entry also credits the Sky Living series Bedlam, which is not among the credits listed here.
Movies (9)
TV (8)
Where to start with Charlotte Salt
The honest answer is also the impractical one, since nobody sits down at the beginning of a decades-old medical serial: Casualty holds more of her than everything else combined. Find the Sam Nicholls episodes and you get the register she is best in, brisk and unsentimental under pressure.
Otherwise begin with The Musketeers, the most enjoyable use of her: swashbuckling that knows it is silly, played straight enough to work. The Tudors is the plusher option and gives her less to do. For film, Beneath Still Waters is the surprise, a drowned-village horror with real atmosphere, and The Chamber is a claustrophobic little thriller that rests entirely on its four actors. Everybody's Talking About Jamie is the warmest thing on the list. Skip Beowulf unless you want to see what the motion-capture era looked like before anyone had solved faces.