The French actress is set to thrill viewers tonight with more bedroom action in the wartime drama Birdsong. Clemence previously appeared in Gossip Girl, thriller In Bruges, opposite Colin Farrell ...

French actress Clémence Poésy is the lead female in BBC drama Birdsong but she once appeared naked on screen in a film called Olgas Sommer. The 29-year-old, who also played Eva Coupeau in Gossip ...

What to Read Next Redmayne, who played Angel Clare in the channel's adaptation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, said: "Birdsong had an overwhelming impact on me when I first read it in my teens.

The French actress Clémence hadn’t read Birdsong before she met director Phillip Martin, but when she did she fell in love with the story of Stephen Wraysford and Isabelle Azaire.

Clémence Poésy, from BBC First World War drama Birdsong, and Downton Abbey's Elizabeth McGovern will be among presenters honouring colleagues at the ceremony dedicated to the best of British.