Victoria Yeates

Victoria Natalie Yeates born 19 April 1983 is an English actress She is best known for her role as Sister Winifred in the period drama series Call the Midwife She also appeared in the film Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald and its sequel Fantastic Beasts The Secrets of Dumbledore Yeates was born and raised in Bournemouth Dorset and practised ballet dancing as a child In 2006 she earned a degree in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art RADA She began her career on the stage earning critical praise for her roles in Noël Cowards Private Lives in the Rookery Nook and in Michael McClures The Beard In 2017 she began touring in a production of Arthur Millers The Crucible In 2014 she joined the cast of the BBC period drama Call the Midwife as Sister Winifred a midwife who moves to Poplar London in the late 1950s to work at Nonnatus House She became engaged to musician Paul Housden in 2016 in South Africa during filming for the Call the Midwife Christmas special They reside in London and married in June 2018