Lara Pulver – Actress | West End Theatre

Lara Pulver is an Olivier Award-winning English actress known for her work across stage, film, and television.

On TV, she has appeared in Maternal, The Split 3, Sherlock, and Spooks.

Lara recently starred as Golde in Fiddler on the Roof at the Barbican Theatre, reprising her Olivier-nominated performance from the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production in 2024.

Lara won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Gypsy at the Savoy Theatre in 2016. She was also nominated for Best Actress in a Musical in 2008 for Parade at the Donmar Warehouse.

In 2012, she received a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the BBC series Sherlock.

Theatre credits: Fiddler on the Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Cradle Will Rock (Classic Stage Company, New York), Guys & Dolls (Royal Albert Hall), Gypsy (The Savoy), Gypsy (Chichester Festival Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Chichester Festival Theatre), Parade (Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles), Everything Must Go! (Soho Theatre), Beau Jest (Hackney Empire), Parade (Donmar Warehouse), Into the Woods (Royal Opera House), The Last Five Years (Menier Chocolate Factory), Honk! (National Theatre), Miss Saigon (Cameron Mackintosh Ltd), High Society (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible), The Darling Buds of May (UK Tour), The Boy Friend (Theatre Royal Windsor / UK Tour), Gypsy (Millennium Theatre, Cardiff), Chicago (Clear Channel Entertainment), Grease (Victoria Palace Theatre), 42nd Street (UK Productions), The Wizard of Oz (Oldham Coliseum).

TV credits: Maternal, The Split 3, The Alienist 2, The City & The City, Electric Dreams: Real Life, Quantico, Fleming, Skins, Da Vinci’s Demons, Coming Up, Sherlock, Spooks aka MI5, True Blood, Robin Hood,

Film credits: Underworld: Blood Wars, A Patch of Fog, Spooks / MI-5, Edge of Tomorrow, Language of a Broken Heart, The Special Relationship, Legacy: Black Ops.

Pulver attended the National Youth Music Theatre between 1994 and 1998, as well as The Liz Burville Dance Centre, Bexley. In 1997, she began studying at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts, and graduated in 2000.

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InterviewLara Pulver on Fiddler on the Roof: 'This show is always heartbreakingly relevant' (Martin Robinson, The Evening Standard, 7 June 2025) - Read more