Francesca Hunt

Francesca Hunt is a British actress. She has starred in two television drama series for the BBC, Roughnecks and Strathblair, as well as the sitcom A Prince Among Men and several one-off dramas including Over Here. In between TV appearances, she has also managed to play some of Britain's most prestigious theatres. She appeared as Phyllis in Double Indemnity at Theatr Clwyd, and starred in Stephen King's Misery at the Haymarket Theatre in Basingstoke. She starred in The Handyman at the Chichester Festival Theatre and has also been seen in Anna Karenina, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Duet for One, among others. Her sole North American TV series to date has been The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne in which she played Rebecca Fogg. She played Mrs Salt in the Tim Burton film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Hunt was educated at Rugby School from 1980 to 1982, and then Oxford University, where she studied philosophy and politics. She then attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and spent time at the Moscow Arts Theatre School. She is a dancer and competitive swimmer. Her step-sister is the actress India Fisher, who appears with her in the Doctor Who audio play Other Lives, and who is perhaps best known as the narrator of the BBC's MasterChef (UK TV series). The musician Crispin Hunt is her brother.