The Serpent s Ellie Bamber on serial killers, Dominic West and Mandy Rice-Davies
The actress on the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj – and why she s still inspired by her ballsy role in The Trial of Christine Keeler
1 January 2021 • 6:00am
Ellie Bamber, who made her name as Mandy Rice-Davies in The Trial of Christine Keeler, is now in BBC One s The Serpent
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“My generation has a huge hunger for true crime stories,” says Ellie Bamber. “Perhaps we’re more keenly aware now, that parts of us all are dark and flawed? But our interest in serial killers is about looking beyond that, peering into acts that are incomprehensible, picking through the brains of these mad individuals…”