Background
Her mother is a telecentre manager and her father is a driving instructor.
Her mother is a telecentre manager and her father is a driving instructor.
She graduated early to begin filming.
Born in London, Cole is the eldest of three siblings. Cole trained at the Oxford School of Drama, graduating in 2002. She was then cast as Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet at Clwyd Theatr Cymru.
Cole"s first lead role was that of Cassie Hughes in Hex.
She portrayed Cassie for the whole of the first season and the first three episodes of the second. Upon her departure, the character was killed official
Company-star Jemima Rooper has stated that the reason for Cole"s exit from the series was that she wanted to move on. After leaving Hex, Cole went on to appear as Blanche Ingram in the critically acclaimed British Broadcasting Corporation television serial Jane Eyre and guest starred as Lilith in the Doctor Who episode "The Shakespeare Code".
She provided an audio commentary for the episode on the Digital Video Disc release of the series" third series alongside David Tennant.
Other roles include a small part in the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006), as the receptionist at the Ocean Club Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas, and Diana Mann in the pilot episode of Cane, Cole"s first appearance on American television She has also appeared as Mel on the Independent Television sitcom Sold, as Jenny Walker in The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007), and as Charlotte Warren in Mission Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008). Cole once again played alongside Jemima Rooper as Caroline Bingley in Lost in Austen.
In 2009, Cole played Doctor Sarah King in Poirot: Appointment with Death, and was cast in the lead role of Maggie Hill, a brilliant surgeon who endures adult-onset schizophrenia, in a pilot for Fox.
She also starred in the films Surviving Evil (2009) alongside Natalie Mendoza and Billy Zane, and Doghouse (2009), with Danny Dyer and Billy Murray. Cole stars in the upcoming noir science fiction action thriller film The Scribbler which is directed by Jake West.
In 2012, Cole appeared in a music video for Cheyenne Jackson"s Before You. In 2015, Cole portrayed Doctor Agard in several episodes of the United States of America Network series Suits and made a one episode appearance in the National Broadcasting Company series The Blacklist.
The Tempest, Pegasus, February 2003 (role unknown) The Lightning Play, Almeida, November 2006 to January 2007 (playing Tabby Morris).