Candis Nergaard

Candis Nergaard is an actor and writer from Kent, England. She trained as a method actor at the leading Dartington College of Arts and Giles Foreman Centre for Acting London. After a breakthrough film performance with Tom Hardy in Stuart: A Life Backwards, she has worked widely in film, television, radio and on the stage. Candis Nergaard’s credits include Grantchester (TV) opposite James Norton; White Chamber (film) opposite Oded Fehr, and Brecht’s Fear and Misery in the Third Reich (stage). She also played the lead in the critically acclaimed BBC production of Carmen, and was nominated for a BBC Best Actress Award in 2012. Candis Nergaard has worked extensively with Dan Allum’s Romany Theatre Company, starring in and co-writing The Yellow Dress (BBC Radio) and Atching Tan (Stopping Place), the BBC’s first ever drama series by and about Romani people. She has also worked as a Romani language and cultural advisor on Peaky Blinders (series 3 and 4, BBC TV) and Glue (E4 TV). She is currently working on writing and producing her first feature film.