Kimberly Nixon got British actor Rupert Grint, most known for his role as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, to chuck his wizardly robes in the movie “Cherry Bomb”.

In the new indie film, Grint gets to roll around naked with co-star Nixon who is at the center of a love triangle she is relishing in. One of the boys is said to die at the end of the movie, but the victim will not be known until the movie is released in a few months, likely beating “Half-Blood Prince” to theaters now that it has been pushed back to the summer of 2009.

Grint, 20, is joining his Potter castmate Daniel Radcliffe, who did a bit of acting in his birthday suit when he joined the cast of Equus which will be hitting the US stages soon as well.

‘When we were filming the sex scenes I turned to him and said: “I’m going to get loads of hate mail from girls who are absolutely in love with you – they are going to think I am this [girl] who de-flowered you.”‘

The actress, 23, tells me: ‘I’d never done a sex scene before and I was extremely nervous. But because Rupert was even more nervous, I had to pretend to be cool about it.

‘When I told my boyfriend I had to do a sex scene he wasn’t too pleased. But when I told him who it was with, he laughed for ten minutes, because he couldn’t imagine anybody having sex with Ron Weasley.’

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Kimberly Nixon attends the UK Premiere of ‘Easy Virtue’ during the BFI 52nd London Film Festival, at the Odeon West End on October 28, 2008 in London, England.

A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future – blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

Today, Kimberley’s 23rd Birthday she begins work on on the stage adaptation of The Girl with the Pearl Earring”

Many happy returns, and Break a leg.

The stage version of Tracy Chevalier’s best-selling novel “The Girl With a Pearl Earring” will receive its world premiere this autumn at the Cambridge Arts Theatre where it will run from 11 to 20 September 2008, ahead of a planned West End transfer.

Chevalier’s 1999 historical novel was inspired by 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece of the same name (pictured). In the fictional story, Vermeer hires the teenage girl Griet to help in his house. But it’s not long before she becomes more than just a servant: she starts to help him in his studio, learning the art of painting by watching the master. And then, secretly, Vermeer begins to paint her, asking her to pose for his most famous portrait.

The play will star Kimberley Nixon and Adrian Dunbar. Nixon was most recently seen on TV as Sophy Hutton in Cranford and in the current film release Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.

Wild Child is an upcoming film directed by Nick Moore and is set to release on 21 March 2008. It also stars Emma Roberts as a rebellious teen from Malibu sent to an English boarding school by her dad.

Age: 22

From: Pontypridd

Where have we seen her before? You will have seen her strapped up in an old-fashioned frock in BBC drama Cranford in which she plays Sophy Hutton, the vicar’s daughter who falls for the dishy doctor. If you’re a fan of the theatre you may have also seen her as the Courtesan in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of the Comedy Of Errors, as Abigail Williams in The Crucible, or as the Mod Girl in the stage version of Quadrophenia, soon to be transferred to the West End.

Where will we see her this year? In teen flick Wild Child, alongside Natasha Richardson and Aidan Quinn. Her character Kate torments newcomer Emma, a rebellious American girl whose father sends her to an English boarding school. She says, “It was so fun as I got to learn La Crosse and have French lessons again, and then we filmed the last bit in LA so there was a Welsh accent in the middle of Malibu.” She’ll also star as Lindsay, ‘the promiscuous one’, in Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging directed by Gurinder Chadha of Bend it Like Beckham fame and starring alongside Alan Davis. She’ll then begin filming Easy Virtue, a film based on a Noel Coward play and starring Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas and Justin Timberlake’s latest love interest Jessica Biel.

On acting: “Acting gives me a confidence that I don’t have in real life. I get to say things as characters that I’d love to have the nerve to say in real life. You can be sexy or frightened one minute and the next, the director says ‘cut’ and you snap out of it,” she said. “I started acting in school plays and dances at 13 or 14 and then I did a drama GCSE and A-Level. I then went straight to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and would get my acting friends together to star in my boyfriend’s short films, because he was studying film studies at the same time.”

Hopes for the future: With two films in post-production and the third to be filmed in January, Kimberley is already working her socks off. She says, “Whether you’ve got work or not, acting is a constant worry so although every actor says it, if I can just keep working and loving it then I think I’m one of the luckiest people in the world.”

Magnificent because: She started filming for Cranford before she had even finished her degree, and despite being young, beautiful and told she’s talented by the likes of Dame Judi Dench and Imelda Staunton, the girl from Ponty remains entirely modest. She can flit between a chick flick and Dylan Thomas reading with ease and won’t even take a holiday because she is so determined to make it.

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The story centers on a 14-year-old girl who keeps a diary about the ups and downs of being a teenager, including the things she learns about kissing.#

Kimberley Nixon plays Wet Lindsay, girlfriend of Robbie the Sex God.

Also starring Alan Davies, Aaron Johnson and Georgia Groom.

Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison’s first book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson.

 ”There are six things very wrong with my life: I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next two years; it is on my nose; I have a three-year-old sister who may have peed somewhere in my room; in fourteen days the summer hols will be over and then it will be back to Stalag 14 and Oberfuhrer Frau Simpson and her bunch of sadistic ‘teachers’; I am very ugly and need to go into an ugly home; I went to a party dressed as a stuffed olive. Follow Georgia’s hilarious antics as she tries to overcome the dilemma’s that are weighing up against her, and muddle her way through teenage life and all that it entails: how to replace accidentally shaved-off eyebrows; how to cope with Angus, her small labrador-sized Scottish wildcat; her first kiss with Peter – afterwards known as Whelk Boy; annoying teachers; unsympathetic friends and family; and how to entice Robbie the Sex God! Phew – she’s really got her work cut out!”

Kimberley Nixon, who appears with Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Francesca Annis, Julie McKenzie, Simon Woods and a

host of other wonderful actors in Cranford, which has become a solid-gold hit on the BBC.

Last Sunday’s second episode garnered close to eight million viewers. On the same day the first show was re-broadcast, claiming over three million more fans. Ms Nixon (pictured) plays rector’s daughter Sophy Hutton.

(She will also be seen in the Gurinder Chadha-Paul Mayeda Berges film Angus, Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging.)