Clemency Burton-Hill



Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton (born 1 July 1981 in London) is an English actress, novelist, journalist and violinist.[1]

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[hide]  *1 Early life and career ==Early life and career[edit] == The daughter of the TV presenter and writer Humphrey Burton and Gillian Hawser, an agent (who had married Robert I Hill in 1970), she attended St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School before reading English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Burton-Hill, is a former scholar at the Royal College of Music, where she was the recipient of the Hugh Bean Violin Prize. ==Acting, music and presentation[edit] == Burton-Hill worked as an actress since 1997 in film and television productions, she has appeared in Dream Team (1997–98), The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000), Midsomer Murders(2004), Supernova (2005), Hustle (2006), and played the regular role of Sophie Montgomery in Party Animals (2007).
 * 2 Acting, music and presentation
 * 3 Writing career
 * 4 Private life
 * 5 Filmography
 * 6 References
 * 7 External links

She has toured with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. In 2005 Burton-Hill co-founded Aurora Orchestra and is a trustee of the Choir of London and a member of its orchestra with whom she regularly tours to the West Bank and Occupied Territories.

In 2008 and 2009, she was a member of the live presenting team at the Proms for BBC Four and BBC Two interviewing Philip Glass and Daniel Barenboim. She has fronted the medical documentary Operation Smile, filmed in Madagascar; presented a film about Frédéric Chopin for BBC World as part of their Visionaries series; and recently co-presented, with Huw Edwards, six films about the Leeds International Piano Competition for BBC Four.

In April and May 2010 Burton-Hill presented the BBC Young Musician 2010 programme on BBC Four with the semi-finals and final also shown on BBC Two.[2]  She did this again in 2012. TheYoung Musician event was originally presented by her father.

Burton-Hill is a presenter on both BBC Radio 3's classical music Breakfast programme and The Culture Show on BBC Two television. ==Writing career[edit] == Her first job in journalism was as a staff fashion writer at Vogue and she has since written for The Economist, The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Times Literary Supplement,Elle, and The Mail on Sunday. She has also been a columnist at Total Politics and The Liberal magazines and also for The Daily Telegraph and is a freelance contributing editor for The Spectator.

In January 2009 Burton-Hill's first novel, The Other Side of the Stars, was published by Headline Review, a division of Hodder Headline. She has since signed a new two-book deal with Headline. ==Private life[edit] == Burton-Hill married James Roscoe on 18 October 2008. She is a trustee of Dramatic Need.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3] ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==