Georgina Dymov

Georgina is one of the ladies of the Russian court, a fixture of Empress Catherine's inner circle who greets the young new bride with warmth and gossip. She is charming, quick with a smile, and fluent in the court's rituals of flattery — though her friendliness always seems to serve some purpose of her own.

Charity Wakefield plays her with a bright, brittle sociability that makes Georgina fun to watch even when you can't quite trust her. The show's satirical tone needs courtiers who feel dangerous under the pleasantries, and Wakefield finds the comedy in that calculation without ever losing the sense of a real woman surviving a treacherous world.