Cressida Curzon Bonas is a British actress, dancer and model.
Background
She is the youngest daughter of Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon and entrepreneur Jeffrey Bonas and a granddaughter of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe. Bonas is the youngest daughter of a British "lieutenant" girl from the 1960s, Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon, and entrepreneur Jeffrey Bonas and granddaughter of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe.
Education
Before graduating from Stowe School, Bonas had a sports scholarship at Prior Park College in the city of Bath, in Somerset. She then went on to study Dance at Leeds University graduating with a 2:1. Bonas continued her training at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire in Greenwich.
Bonas has played cockney housekeeper Mistress
Swabb in Alan Bennett"s Habeas Corpus, Mission Julie in the eponymous play, and Laura in Tennessee Williams"s The Glass Menagerie at school.
Career
Family She has seven siblings, George Bonas, Charles Bonas, Henry Bonas, Pandora Cooper-Key and Georgina, Jacobi, and Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. The Bonas family owned textile mills in Castle Gresley and Burton-on-Trent under the company name, "Bonas Brothers". lieutenant closed operations in the 1980s, having produced, as its final line, elastic for women"s tights.
Education Bonas made her first screen appearance in 2009 with a small role in the television series Trinity.
Her theatrical debut came in 2014 at Hay Festival in the play There"s a Monster in the Lake. The play was also staged at the Vault Festival in January 2015.
In April 2015 she was expected to appear in May 2015 as Laura in the one-woman play, An Evening With Lucian Freud, by Laura-Jane Foley, at the Leicester Square. In June 2014 Bonas was rumoured to be going to appear in the film Tulip Fever (2015) as Mistress
Steen. In January 2015, after modelling for British brand Burberry, Bonas was announced to front the 2015 campaign of fashion company Mulberry.
Her work for the brand includes a two-minute-long advertisement released in March that co-stars actor Freddie Fox and is directed by Ivana Bobic.