Lydia was born in Leicestershire, one of four children, her mother being an opera singer and her older brother Charlie (born 25.01.1981) also being an actor. Lydia went to school in Loughborough and at the Oakham School in Rutland before training in acting at the Oxford School of Drama, graduating in 2007. She worked in rep ('Look Back in Anger' at the Lichfield Garrick and in Shakespeare productions at the Half Moon in Herne Hill) and as a children's entertainer.
Lydia's major break occurred when she was cast in The Inbetweeners Movie(2011) in 2011, also appearing in its sequel,The Inbetweeners 2(2014), three years later. On television she has been seen in comic roles, as the bossy slave Metella in the ancient Rome-set sitcom Plebs(2013) and as ditsy Bunny in Drifters(2013). In 2015 she appeared as Princess Penelope in the decidedly tongue-in-cheek series The Royals(2015) about a family of British monarchs. Away from acting, she is an honorary ambassador for the East Midlands Rainbows children's hospice in her native Loughborough.
Known For
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Dreaming Whilst Black (2023)
Guest starring as Suzy
(3 episodes)
- Episode 1x05: The Pitch (Jul 24, 2023)
- Episode 1x03: The Friends (Jul 24, 2023)
- Episode 1x02: The Reality (Jul 24, 2023)
The Royals (2015)
Guest starring as Princess Penelope
(10 episodes)
- Episode 2x10: The Serpent That Did Sting Thy Father's Life (Jan 17, 2016)
- Episode 2x09: And Then It Started Like a Guilty Thing (Jan 10, 2016)
- Episode 2x04: What, Has This Thing Appear'd Again Tonight? (Dec 6, 2015)
- Episode 2x02: Welcome is Fashion and Ceremony (Nov 22, 2015)
- Episode 2x01: It Is Not, nor It Cannot Come to Good (Nov 15, 2015)
- Episode 1x09: In My Heart There Was a Kind of Fighting (May 10, 2015)
- Episode 1x06: The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune (Apr 19, 2015)
- Episode 1x03: We Are Pictures, or Mere Beasts (Mar 29, 2015)
- Episode 1x02: Infants of the Spring (Mar 22, 2015)
- Episode 1x01: Stand and Unfold Yourself (Mar 15, 2015)
Drunk History (2015)
Guest starring as Lydia Rose Bewley
- Episode 3x02: Murr and Jessica Knappett & Lydia Rose Bewley (Mar 15, 2017)
Plebs (2013)
Starring as Metella
(14 episodes)
- Episode 2x08: The Race (Nov 3, 2014)
- Episode 2x07: The Statue (Oct 27, 2014)
- Episode 2x06: The Candidate (Oct 20, 2014)
- Episode 2x05: The New Slave (Oct 13, 2014)
- Episode 2x04: The Patron (Oct 6, 2014)
- Episode 2x03: The Baby (Sep 29, 2014)
- Episode 2x02: The Best Men (Sep 22, 2014)
- Episode 2x01: The Chariot (Sep 22, 2014)
- Episode 1x06: Saturnalia (Apr 22, 2013)
- Episode 1x05: Bananae (Apr 15, 2013)
- Episode 1x04: The Herpes Cat (Apr 8, 2013)
- Episode 1x03: The Erotic Vase (Apr 1, 2013)
- Episode 1x02: The Gladiator (Mar 25, 2013)
- Episode 1x01: The Orgy (Mar 25, 2013)