Kassius Hope A. Nelson (born 24 June 1997) is an English actress and playwright. She won two British Soap Awards for her role in Hollyoaks (2015–2017) on Channel 4. She has since appeared in the Netflix series White Lines (2020) and Dead Boy Detectives (2024), and the film Pirates (2021).

Early life

Nelson was born in Islington, North London. She was a performing arts student at City and Islington Sixth Form College.^[1]

Career

Nelson first appeared on screen in the independent film Lone Rivers. She was 18^[2] when she made her television debut in 2015 and began playing Jade Albright in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.^[3] She and Richard Linnell won Best On-Screen Partnership and Scene of the Year at the 2017 British Soap Awards.

With Islington Community Theatre and the charitable Company Three theatre company, Nelson helped to put on a number of productions, including Brainstorm at the National Theatre. In 2018, Nelson wrote and co-directed Moon-stained at the Gerry's Stronger Than Fear Festival.^[4]

Nelson joined the recurring cast of the Netflix adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events for its third and final season as Fiona Widdershins.^[5] She then played a younger version of Angela Griffin's character Anna Connor in White Lines the following year, also on Netflix.^[6]

In 2021, Nelson made her feature film debut when she appeared in Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho^[7] and starred in Reggie Yates' Pirates. She was cast as Crystal Palace in the DC Universe series Dead Boy Detectives, also on Netflix, taking over the role from Doom Patrol's Madalyn Horcher.^[8]

Filmography

Stage

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

External links

• Kassius Nelson at IMDb
• Kassius Nelson at Conway van Gelder Grant