Rosalind Eleazar is an English stage and screen actress. She is best known for her roles as Louisa Guy in the TV series Slow Horses, as Agnes in 2019 film The Personal History of David Copperfield, and as the lead character Kat in Harlen Coben's 2025 miniseries Missing You.
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Early life and education
Eleazar was born to a British mother and a Ghanaian father. As a child, she “intermittently” saw her father, Courage Quashigah, who was a politician and served as Ghana’s Minister of State for Agriculture and later Health between 2001 and 2009. She was primarily raised by her mother in Clapham, London.
Eleazar earned an academic scholarship to attend Gordonstoun School in Moray, Scotland. She studied Spanish and Mandarin at Nottingham University before moving to Ghana to work in her brother’s production company. In her mid-20s, she moved back to the United Kingdom and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from where she graduated in 2015.
Career
Eleazar's TV roles include Louisa Guy in Slow Horses, Christine in the BBC series Rellik, Jacky Bast in Howards End, Kate in the ITV series Deep Water, as well as roles in NW, National Treasure and Harlots.
On stage, Eleazar appeared in The Starry Messenger at Wyndham's Theatre; as Yelena, in Uncle Vanya at the Harold Pinter Theatre; in House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre; and Plaques and Tangles at the Royal Court Theatre.
Eleazar's debut feature film role was as Agnes in The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) by Armando Iannucci.
Personal life
Eleazer married Italian actor and producer Gabriele Lo Giudice in September 2023. The couple live in east London.
Eleazer has symbrachydactyly, a congenital abnormality characterized by short, missing or webbed fingers.
Filmography
Theatre
Dido in 15 Heroines at the Jermyn Street Theatre (2020)
Yelena in Uncle Vanya at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London (2020)
Augustias in The House of Bernarda Alba at the Royal National Theatre (2023)
Awards and honours
2015 Spotlight Prize Best Actor
2018 Screen Nation Rising Star
2020 Black British Theatre Awards – Nominee for Best Supporting Actress
2021 Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Female