Sophie Lara Winkleman (born 5 August 1980) is an English television, film, and stage actress. As the wife of Lord Frederick Windsor, son of Queen Elizabeth II's first cousin Prince Michael of Kent, Winkleman is formally referred to as Lady Frederick Windsor.

Biography

Winkleman was born in Primrose Hill in London. Her father, Barry, is a publisher and non-practising Jew. Her mother is children's author Cindy Black. Her half sister, born to her father and his first wife journalist Eve Pollard, former editor of the Sunday Express, is the television presenter Claudia Winkleman.

Winkleman was educated at the City of London School for Girls and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she read English literature. She joined the university's dramatic society Cambridge Footlights and wrote and performed in the comic revue Far Too Happy. For the first time in twenty years, the Footlights received a Perrier award nomination. Winkleman is also a member of the National Youth Theatre. She is a soprano.