Zoe Tapper (born 1981) is an English actress who first came to prominence playing Nell Gwynne in Richard Eyre's award-winning film Stage Beauty (2004). Her other film roles include Gwendolyn in the award-winning Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), alongside Joan Plowright, and These Foolish Things (2006), alongside Anjelica Huston. Starring roles on television include Mary Collins in A Harlot's Progress for Channel 4, Jane in Oliver Parker's The Private Life of Samuel Pepys (alongside Steve Coogan), Gemma in the first series of the Sky One UK television series Hex, Hermia in the 2005 BBC television adaptation/modernisation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jenny Maple in the BBC miniseries 20,000 Streets Under the Sky, and appeared as Sheila Steafel in the 2008 BBC television play The Curse of Steptoe. On stage she has appeared in Epitaph For George Dillon in the West End, and Othello at Shakespeare's Globe. (via Wikipedia)