She made her debut at 11 in Samantha Morton's TV drama about growing up in care. Now Molly Windsor is playing one of the girls groomed in the Rochdale scandal. Molly remembers acting coming naturally to her when she was young. To her, when you’re a kid, you’re always playing and pretending, and this freedom from inhibition is something she has tried to keep hold of as her career progresses. After spending her teenage years at the Nottingham Actor’s Studio (now the Talent First Organisation), Molly’s breakthrough came when she was cast as the lead in BBC’s mini-series Three Girls. Molly describes feeling relieved when the series, based on the true story of victims of grooming and sexual abuse in Rochdale, was broadcast. After living with the harrowing stories of the victims for so long, it was uplifting for her that the story connected with an audience, and to know that what she felt was shared. For people who are just starting out, Molly would say to be patient with yourself. She says it can be a strange career, that when everybody else is going to university and moving upwards in their jobs it’s easy to feel a little lost. She would say that’s ok, and that all you need to do is enjoy the moment and look for ways to keep learning.
Molly Windsor (born 19 June 1997) is an English actress from Nottingham, best known for starring as Lucy Manvers in the 2009 BAFTA-winning television film The Unloved, directed by Samantha Morton, and the 2017 BBC TV series Three Girls. Windsor lives in Derbyshire with her family. She attended the Nottingham's Central Junior Television Workshop, before switching to Rama Young Actors at the age of ten. Lucy Manvers in The Unloved was Windsor's first professional acting role. The Times described her character as "played with an unsettling stillness by Molly Windsor". She was discovered by the writer and director of The Unloved, Samantha Morton in a local drama school and casting agency, Rama Young Actors. She also had a role as Margaret's daughter in the recent release, Oranges and Sunshine.
