Hope was born in Salisbury and grew up in Lower Daggons, a rural hamlet in the New Forest District of Hampshire.[2] Her younger sister Emily Norris is a member of the band Police Dog Hogan. Their father is a barrister and former jockey and their mother stayed at home, having previously worked in PR.[3]
Hope attended boarding school.[4] She first discovered acting through a drama class at school.[5] She went on to study French and Spanish at the University of Oxford. Whilst there, she found an agent and began taking jobs in theatre and commercials. Upon graduation from Oxford, Hope spent a year in Paris training in acting at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.[3]
Career
Hope made her film debut as a factory worker in the 2012 musical Les Miserables.[6]
In 2013, Hope began playing the role of Ramsay Bolton's sadistic lover, Myranda, in HBO's fantasy drama series Game of Thrones.[7] She continued in the role until the character died during the fifth season and her body was found in the sixth-season premiere. In 2014, she guest starred in the first season of The Musketeers, playing the role of Charlotte Mellendorf. That same year, she appeared in the film The Theory of Everything, portraying Philippa Hawking, the younger sister of Stephen Hawking. In 2015, she had a leading role in the British gangster film North v South as Willow Clarke. That same year, Hope appeared in the music video "Beautiful to Me" by Olly Murs.[8]
In 2016, Hope appeared in the biographical romantic drama A United Kingdom and the romantic thriller Allied. In 2017, she had a supporting role in the drama film Three Christs[6] and in 2018, she co-starred in the horror film The Nun.[9]
Hope has also done theatre work, including Broadway shows such as Buried Child where she played the role of Shelly in 2016.[10] In 2017 she played the role of Zara in Almeida Theatre's Albion[11] and in 2018 she played as Dr. Michaels' mother in The New Group's Good for Otto.[12]
In January 2020, she appeared as Annabel Connors, a main character in Season 2 of Bancroft opposite Sarah Parish.[14] Having worked with Danish director Birgitte Stærmouse on the first season of The Spanish Princess, the pair teamed up again for Netflix's miniseries The English Game, which also aired in 2020.
