A British actress who appeared in the 2016 Marvel superhero film “Doctor Strange” has been jailed for eight years for sex crimes against a teenage girl.
Zara Phythian, 37, and her screenwriter husband Victor Marke, 59, were convicted at Nottingham Crown Court last week of 14 counts of sexual activity with a child who they groomed and abused from the age of 13.
Marke, who was also convicted of four counts of indecently assaulting a second underage girl, was jailed for 14 years.
The crimes Phythian and Marke were convicted of dated from between 2005 and 2008.
Phythian played a “brunette zealot” in “Doctor Strange”—which starred Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role—but did not appear in the sequel, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” which is currently in cinemas.
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