Exciting news: Sophia Myles has a new job! Congratulations! Of course we all can’t wait to see Sophia Myles back in action and I’m sure we would all love to know what it is. But her job is top secret at the moment and will be announced as soon as possible.

In the meantime, look at some pictures of Sophia Myles leaving the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London with her good friend Anna Friel after seeing her on stage in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s‘ on November 30, 2009.

016 Leaving the theatre after seeing ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’

It’s official: The Hollywood Reporter has just reported that Sophia Myles has been cast in the CBS television series ‘Moonlight‘ as the female lead Beth Turner.

The show centers on a private investigator (Alex O’Laughlin) who is a vampire and struggles with the repercussions of immortality, vampire adversaries and his love for a mortal – Beth Turner, a beautiful, ambitious Internet investigative reporter who is always on the hunt for the big story. In the pilot presentation the role was played by Shannon Lucio.

The show will see Sophia Myles move to Los Angeles for the time being and get more known in the States. What do you think of this news? Head over to the Messageboard to discuss!

After 1.5 weeks sophiamyles.org is finally back on track!! I’m very sorry for the inconvenience but there was really nothing I could do about it myself – the problem lay with the host. Unfortunately my email was down as well during this time. If you have sent an email during this time, please re-send it.

There are great news however! Gavin already posted it on sophiamyles.co.uk last Tuesday:

Sophia Myles has landed a new role as Freya in Harvey Weinstein’s upcoming movie ‘Outlander’. Howard McCain is directing his own script that he co-wrote with Dirk Blackman. The story is set in 709 AD.

Plot: A man from another galaxy crash-lands on Earth during the time of the Vikings. By accident, he brings with him an alien predator that he must destroy with the help of a Viking tribe.

The film also stars Jim Caviezel and Jack Huston (Anjelica’s nephew). Shooting will begin October 16th in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and last 11 weeks (with a break over Christmas). Sophia’s character is a warrior.

Visit the film’s listing at IMDb. Various news sites have already picked up on the news (e.g. The Hollywood Reporter).

Sophia Myles has signed on to star in ‘Dracula’ – an independently produced production of the famous story for British Television. Producing is Granada and BBC will air the film around Christmas. Shooting will take place in Gloucestershire from early August till early September this year. Marc Warren – who co-starred with Sophia Myles in ‘Oliver Twist’ – will play the title character and Sophia will play Lucy.

Excellent news! The stars who will be appearing in the second series of Ricky Gervais’ BBC Two sitcom ‘Extras’ have been announced. Sophia Myles will be appearing as herself in an episode centering around Orlando Bloom. She shot her scenes last Thursday.

Other stars who are set to appear are avid Bowie, Chris Martin, Sir Ian McKellen, Daniel Radcliffe, Germaine Greer, Diana Rigg, Moira Stuart, Richard Briers, Ronnie Corbett and Stephen Fry.

The series is based around extra Andy Millman, played by Gervais, an actor desperate to break into the big time. A BBC spokeswoman said filming began earlier this week and plotlines had not yet been confirmed. The episodes are due to be screened in autumn on BBC2 and HBO. Read the BBC News article
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Great news! According to the movie’s production company Focus Films Sophia Myles is attached to star as James Miranda Barry in ‘Heaven and Earth’. Shooting is rumoured to start around November and will take place in the UK, Germany and South Africa.

Synopsis:
Directed by Marleen Gorris, this is based on the remarkable true story of James Miranda Barry. In the early years of the 19th Century Barry graduated from Edinburgh University Medical School aged 21. Barry was appointed army surgeon to the Cape Colony where she performed the first successful Caesarian operation and rose through the ranks to eventually become Surgeon General of the British Army. It was only when the undertaker was laying out the body of the eminent physician that a startling discovery was made – Dr James Barry was in fact a woman.

Sophia Myles is soon starting work on a new project: ‘Hallam Foe’ by director David Mackenzie (Young Adam). The screenplay by Ed Whitmore is based on the novel by Peter Jinks. The story revolves around title character Hallam Foe to be played by Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot). Sophia Myles will play Kate, the young woman who looks like Hallam’s mother. The genre of the movie can best be called Psychological Drama and it’s an arthouse production. The role will present a challenge to Sophia Myles in that she’ll have to carry off a Scottish accent. Shooting is to start within about a month in Edinburgh, Scotland. IMDb listing.

This is the synopsis at Sigma Films:

The film is a darkly funny, bittersweet coming of age story about Hallam Foe, a 17 year old misfit who likes to watch the world from a tree house in the grounds of his father’s expansive pile in the Scottish Borders. Hallam is almost over the sudden death of his mother when he begins to suspect that his beautiful step mother may have had a hand in her death, and it doesn’t help that Hallam fancies her rotten. After a confrontation with his step mum, Hallam escapes to the city of Edinburgh. Out of money and out of friends, he finds his tree top skills well suited to the rooftops of the city, where he lives ferally, attempting to avoid the perils of the streets below – including an obsession with a gorgeous girl who happens to look just like his mother…..

Sophia Myles recently left the set of ‘The Hades Factor’ for a few days to shoot scenes for the ‘Tristan & Isolde’ promotional music video in Los Angeles. It was especially written for the movie by 28-year-old singer/songwriter/pianist/guitarist Gavin DeGraw and is called ‘We Belong Together’. As we’re approaching the release date we can be on the lookout for this music video!

More information about Gavin DeGraw at his official site and at More Than A Memory – The official Gavin DeGraw fan site.

Sophia Myles is heading for Toronto to shoot her scenes for a new role in a four-hour mini-series for America’s CBS. The full name of the project is ‘Robert Ludlum’s Covert One: The Hades Factor’. It is not yet listed on the IMDb but this is a summary of what I could find on the internet:

Mira Sorvino, Stephen Dorff, Anjelica Huston, Colm Meaney and Blair Underwood star in the small-screen adaptation of Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds’s 2000 bestselling novel of the same name, about a secret intelligence agency (“Covert One”) consisting of political and technical experts who fight corruption and conspiracy, reporting directly to the U.S. president. Mick Jackson is on board to direct the four-hour mini-series from a script by Elwood Reid. Production is expected to shoot in Toronto until December for an airdate next year. Filming will also take place in Paris and Berlin. As for plot specifics, “Hades” tracks the efforts of a disease specialist (and ex-agent of Covert One) named Col. Jonathan Smith (Stephen Dorff) who uncovers a conspiracy involving the President (Anjelica Huston) and her attempt to cover up the deliberate spread of an Ebola-like virus, which claimed the life of Smith’s fiancée. Mira Sorvino will play Rachel Russell, a Covert One agent who goes missing after killing two men, with Colm Meaney as a former spy and friend of Smith’s and Underwood as the No. 2 official at Covert One.

Sophia’s playing Stephen Dorff’s fiancée which is called Sophia Russell [edit]Dr. Sophie Amsden[/edit] and is an American scientist. She’ll be in Toronto for the coming 3 weeks. After ‘Art School Confidential’ this is her second collaboration with Anjelica Huston and also the second time she’s portraying an American character.

Sophia Myles has accepted a new role: She’s going to play Madame Du Pompadour in an episode of the famous BBC TV-Series ‘Doctor Who’ starring Billie Piper and David Tennant. Euros Lyn is directing, rehearsals are currently taking place and shooting will soon start.

There is a very informative fansite about the series: Gallifrey. And it says there that the tentative start date for the airing of Series 2 is March 2006. I believe the episode Sophia Myles will be in is ‘4: The Girl in the Fireplace’ – this one is set in 18th century France, the time and place Madame du Pompadour lived.

Note: I’ve replaced some pictures with high quality ones: Chelsea Flower Show and The Prince and The Pauper – On Set. The large pictures can be found at the beginning of the albums and to see the full version you need to click the image again after opening it. Thanks Mel for these!!