Charlotte Anne Ritchie is an English actress and singer best known for her roles as Alison in Ghosts, Kate Galvin in You, Oregon in Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat, Hannah in Siblings, Alison in Dead Pixels, Barbara Gilbert in BBC drama Call the Midwife, George in Feel Good. She was a member of the classical crossover group All Angels.
Early Life
Charlotte Ritchie was born 29 August 1989 (age 33) in Clapham, London, England. Charlotte Ritchie grew up together with two other siblings (a brother and a sister); Luke Ritchie, the Creative Technology Advisor for the San Francisco Symphony and Alice Ritchie, a journalist by profession.
She was educated at James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich, and joined Youth Music Theatre UK and its production of Red Hunter in 2005. She gained a degree in English and drama at the University of Bristol while filming Fresh Meat
Career
Ritchie’s career began in 2004, Ritchie played a lead role in a short film entitled The Open Doors with Michael Sheen. She made an appearance as an extra in the 2005 film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She also featured in The Pierglass at the Young Pleasance Theatre in August 2006 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Ritchie performed with All Angels in an episode of Emmerdale. She also played Emily Owen, a neighbour in the BBC’s Life of Riley.
From 2011 to 2016, Ritchie portrayed Oregon in the Channel 4 comedy series Fresh Meat.
She stars alongside Tom Stourton in sitcom, Siblings, which was first broadcast in summer 2014, and she appeared as a guest panelist in the same year on 8 Out of 10 Cats.
In 2015, Ritchie joined the cast of popular period drama Call The Midwife. She played Nurse Barbara Gilbert (Hereward) until March 2018, when she decided to leave the show.
In 2016, she appeared in the UK production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives, playing the role of Sibyl Chase.
She guest starred in Doctor Who as Lin in the episode “Resolution”.
Since 2019, she has played Alison in Ghosts, a BBC sitcom about a young couple who inherits a haunted estate,and has also played Alison in Dead Pixels. She additionally played George in the Channel 4 series Feel Good, co-starring with Mae Martin. The series released on Netflix in 2020.
Ritchie was a contestant on series 11 of Taskmaster, which was broadcast on Channel 4 in March to May 2021.
In 2022, Ritchie joined the cast as a series regular on season 4 of You.
Personal Life
Charlotte Ritchie was born in Clapham Town, London, United Kingdom to Elise Ritchie (mother) and Robin Ritchie (father) and stands at a height of 1.67m.
Charlotte Ritchie is a happily married woman. She’s married to Greg Ritchie (drummer extraordinaire for the Homecoming concert tour). The pair met during a video taping for legendary singer/songwriter Bill Gaither and began dating till they got married in December 1995. The couple is blessed with two children, Landon and Jayna. The family lives in Hendersonville, Tennessee, near Nashville.
Charlotte Ritchie Net Worth
As of February 2023, Charlotte Ritchie had an estimated net worth of about $ 12 million. She has made such an amount from her career as an actress and a musician
