Alex Kingston

 Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston was born 11 March 1963. In the early 1980s, she was active, Kingston became noted for her television appearances in Britain as well as the US in the late 1990s, including her regular role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the NBC medical drama ER (1997-2004) as well as her lead role in the ITV miniseries The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996), which earned her an BAFTA nomination for the Best Actress. Her other credits include the regular role as River Song in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2008-2015), Mrs. Bennet in the ITV period-drama drama Lost in Austen (2008), Dinah Lance in The CW's superhero fiction drama series Arrow (2013-2016), and Sarah Bishop in A Discovery of Witches (2018-2022)Kingston was born and brought up in Epsom, Surrey, to Anthony Kingston, an English butcher, and his German wife, Margarethe (nee Renneisen). Kingston's paternal great-great-grandmother was Jewish, an ancestry Kingston explored on the series Who Do You Think You Are?Kingston's uncle, her mother's younger brother, is actor Walter Renneisen.Her younger sisters are Susie, who is mentally and physically disabled as a result of being deprived of oxygen at birth, and Nicola, a former actress who appeared in the 1996 British TV production of The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, in which Kingston starred.