Mollie Lambert

Mollie Lambert is a British actress. After being involved in her father's drama company as a child, she trained as an adult at the Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company. After doing further training, Lambert performed in the stage productions of Russian Dolls, Inside Pussy Riot (2017) and The White Devil (2017). She also filmed commercials and was a main cast member in web programme Dixi, as well as guest starring in Doctors and Casualty. Between 2018 and 2019, Lambert played the regular role of Harley Frater on the British soap opera Hollyoaks. After leaving the soap, Lambert guest starred in Urban Myths and performed in the plays A Thousand Splendid Suns (2019) and Peter Pan (2019–20). She has also co-founded the London theatre company Shrink Theatre.

Life and career Mollie Lambert had always lived in or around London until being cast in Hollyoaks, when she moved to Liverpool. When she was younger, Mollie Lambert wanted to be a paleontologist after learning about it from the television show Friends. The following year, Lambert portrayed Camelia in Russian Dolls, which ran at the King's Head Theatre from 5–23 April 2016. Lambert's performance was praised by Sophia Shluger from Londonist, who called Lambert "immensely talented" and opined that she and her co-star Stephanie Fayerman were a "pure pleasure to watch, leaving you feeling not only that you know them personally but that you may have a bit of both of them in yourself." Sarah Tattersall from Everything Theatre opined that Fayerman and Lambert were "the perfect embodiment" of their roles and believed that they gave "engaging performances".

In 2017, Lambert was part of the cast of The White Devil at the Globe Theatre. Lambert later guest-starred in the sixth episode of the 32nd series of the medical drama series Casualty, which aired on 30 September 2017. Lambert has also appeared as a regular cast member in the third and fourth series of the interactive web programme Dixi, portraying Addie. Lambert was at a graphic novel book launch when she got the call from her agent telling her that she got the part in Dixi.

In April 2018, it was announced that Lambert would be joining the cast of the British soap opera Hollyoaks as new character Harley Frater, who would be involved in the homelessness storyline of Peri Lomax (Ruby O'Donnell). Of the casting, Lambert said, "I am so pleased to be introduced into the Hollyoaks family and looking forward to getting stuck in. It's been a privilege to have worked with The Whitechapel Centre and Centrepoint and learn how homelessness can happen to anyone. Hopefully this story can help raise awareness of these and other charities that work so hard to help people who find themselves without a place to live." Lambert did research on homelessness and felt affected by the issue. being targeted and almost killed by Peri's former friend Nico Blake (Persephone Swales-Dawson) and beginning a polyamorous relationship with Peri and Tom Cunningham (Ellis Hollins). Lambert also worked with Peter Ash, who played Ron, a man who took advantage of Harley and gave her drugs; Ash called Lambert "absolutely cracking". Lambert's contract was initially for six months but it was later extended to a year.

In March 2019, it was announced that Lambert had been cast in the stage adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns. The production was first performed at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in May of that year before going on tour across the country. In the production, Lambert played various female roles, like other cast members did, in addition to portraying the young boy Zalmai. Despite not usually reading books, Lambert read the novel and considered it a "beautiful story". For this role, Lambert travelled to Sofia and worked with Sarah Solemani, who she was in "awe" of.

Theatre Year Production Role Venue(s) 2016 Russian Dolls Camelia King's Head Theatre 2017 Inside Pussy Riot Saatchi Gallery 2017 The White Devil Globe Theatre 2019 A Thousand Splendid Suns Various characters Various (UK tour) 2019–20 Peter Pan Michael Darling Birmingham Repertory Theatre