Background
Tapper was born in Bromley, South East London.
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She trained at the Academy Drama School and the Central School of Speech and Drama, from which she graduated in the spring of 2003, days before taking on her first film role.
Career
She is known for portraying Anya Raczynski in Survivors and Mina Harker in Demons. On stage Tapper has appeared in Epitaph for George Dillon in the West End, and Othello at Shakespeare"s Globe. Following her film debut in Stage Beauty, Tapper played Gwendolyn in Mistress
Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), alongside Joan Plowright, and Diana Shaw in These Foolish Things (2006), alongside Anjelica Huston.
Her television credits include Mary Collins in A Harlot"s Progress for Channel 4, Jane in Oliver Parker"s The Private Life of Samuel Pepys, Gemma in the first series of the Sky One drama Hex and Jenny Maple in the British Broadcasting Corporation miniseries 20,000 Streets Under the Sky. She also played Hermia in ShakespeaRe-Told: A Midsummer Night"s Dream, the 2005 British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation/modernisation of Shakespeare"s play of the same name.
In 2008 Tapper portrayed Sheila Steafel in the British Broadcasting Corporation television play The Curse of Steptoe and Anya Raczynski in the British Broadcasting Corporation remake of Survivors, alongside Max Beesley, Paterson Joseph and Julie Graham. She also played Selina Dawes in the Independent Television adaptation of the novel Affinity, opposite Anna Madeley as Margaret Prior.
lieutenant premiered at the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and in the United Kingdom on 28 December 2008 on Independent Television. In 2009 Tapper appeared in the Independent Television fantasy drama series Demons as blind vampire-turned-monster hunter Mina Harker.
She played Effie Gray in the British Broadcasting Corporation Two period drama Desperate Romantics. In 2010, she played Hannah in the British Broadcasting Corporation television pilot Reunited. In 2013 she starred as Ellen Love in Mr Selfridge.
