Adolescence star Erin Doherty splits from girlfriend Sophie Melville after seven years
The actress blew viewers away with her performance in Adolescence.
Adolescence star Erin Doherty has split from her partner Sophie Melville after seven years of dating.
The Crown actress, 32,is known to have dated fellow actress Sophie who became best known for appearing as Iphigenia in the one-woman play Splott.
On screen she has also appeared in a 2020 episode of Call the Midwife, played Mandy Thomas in the first season of the BBC drama The Pact and starred alongside Michael Sheen and Callum Scott Howells in The Way last year.
The pair met in 2017 when starring together in Alan Ayckbourn’s play The Divide, however, they now no longer follow each other on social media.
Erin no longer follows Sophie on social media, with sources telling MailOnline that their relationship is over.
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While most of their relationship has been private, Erin spoke about her sexuality during a recent appearance on the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day.
She previously spoke about dating fellow actress Sophie Melville (Picture: Dave Benett/ Getty Images for De Beers)After recalling a ‘mind-blowing’ relationship with a woman at the age of 25 that made her realise she was gay Erin admitted: ‘It took me a really, really long time to finally get to the point where I was like, “Oh, I’m gay”.
‘I never really was ready to carve out that path for myself, even though looking back, I always knew that my relationships with men weren’t satisfying in that wholehearted way that I wanted them to be.
‘I wouldn’t change it because it’s really made me adore that part and really cherish it and I just hope that I get to offer that to other women or men, whoever you are just lean into your truth because there was something so monumental about that moment of going, “Whoa, this is me” and just embracing it and not applying anything else to it. I just think we all deserve that.’
Erin had previously called her relationship her ‘greatest achievement’.
Erin’s performance in the new Netflix series has been called ‘mesmerising’ (Picture: AP) Erin spoke to her former therapist in preparation for the role (Picture: Courtesy of Netflix)The actress has been met with high praise following her performance in Netflix’s critically acclaimed series Adolescence – which has already been viewed more than 24,000,000 times in four days, and follows the murder of teenager Katie, with her schoolmate Jamie (Owen Cooper) accused of stabbing her.
The Jack Thorne script starts from the moment of his arrest and takes viewers through a shattering journey up to the next 13 months.
Erin stars as psychologist Bryony Ariston, who assesses Jamie in an intense interrogation that was filmed entirely in one shot.
Her performance in what unfolds as a chilling exchange with the young offender has also been called ‘utterly mesmerising’ by viewers.
Erin alsorecently starred in Steven Knight’s excellent drama A Thousand Blows again alongside Stephen Graham but she is no stranger to sinking her teeth into a role, as was made clear when she took the lead in BBC’s Chloe.
Last year Erin was also one of the celebrities selected to represent England against the World XI in the charity event Soccer Aid for UNICEF.
Metro has reached out to Erin Doherty’s reps for comment.
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