Chloe Pirrie

Born: 1987-08-25

Chloe Pirrie (born August 25, 1987) is a Scottish actress. She has played main roles in the 2014 miniseries The Game, the 2012 film Shell, and the 2015 television film An Inspector Calls. She has also appeared in the 2016 miniseries War & Peace, the 2015 film Youth, the 2015 film Blood Cells and a 2013 episode of Black Mirror. In 2015 she also co-starred in the Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film, Stutterer. Pirrie was raised in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, and attended the Mary Erskine School. She began acting in school and decided to pursue it as a career after being cast in a school production of The Cherry Orchard. She moved to London at the age of 18 to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and graduated in 2009. Pirrie's professional acting career began in 2009. She made her debut at the Royal National Theatre in a 2010 production of Men Should Weep alongside numerous other Scottish actors. Shortly afterwards, she appeared in Solstice, a short film released in 2010. Her first role in a feature film was in Shell (2012), a Scottish drama in which Pirrie played the eponymous main character. For this performance she won Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2013 and was nominated for Best British Newcomer at the 2012 BFI London Film Festival Awards. In 2013, she played a politician in "The Waldo Moment", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror. In the same year she was named as one of BAFTA's "Breakthrough Brits" and Screen International's "UK Stars of Tomorrow". In 2014, Pirrie starred in the BBC miniseries The Game, a Cold War spy thriller in which she played an MI5 secretary. The following year she appeared as Sheila Birling in Helen Edmundson's BBC One adaptation of J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls, in the miniseries The Last Panthers, the British independent film Burn Burn Burn, and the Italian film Youth. In 2015, she starred as Ellie in the Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film, Stutterer. Ellie is the love interest for Greenwood (played by Matthew Needham). Greenwood has a major stuttering problem and can't speak effectively, causing him to panic when Ellie suggests they take what had only been an online relationship, offline to meet in person. After finally giving in, Greenwood learns a secret about Ellie that changes everything. She played Julie Karagina in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace and was cast as Emily Brontë in To Walk Invisible, a BBC drama about the Brontë family created by Sally Wainwright. She also starred in the Death In Paradise episode 'In The Footsteps Of A Killer' as Grace Matlock, an employee at the Saint Marie Times. She also plays Lara in the 2016 BBC thriller series, The Living and the Dead. In 2017, she starred in the Netflix series, The Crown for its second season, playing Eileen Parker. In 2018, she appeared in the BBC/Netflix miniseries Troy: Fall of a City.


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Emma.

as Isabella Knightley
Released: 2020-02-13

In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.

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An Inspector Calls

as Sheila Birling
Released: 2015-09-13

Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who...

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Youth

as Girl Screenwriter
Released: 2015-05-20

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder...

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To Walk Invisible

as Emily Brontë
Released: 2016-12-26

To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of...

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Burn Burn Burn

as Alex
Released: 2016-10-28

Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to...

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Kindred

as Jane
Released: 2020-11-06

When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon...

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Stutterer

as Ellie Parks
Released: 2015-07-08

A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his...

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Kryptic

as Kay
Released: 2024-03-10

Kryptic is a psycho-thriller about a woman’s search for a missing monster hunter and her growing...

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Shell

as Shell
Released: 2012-11-26

Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father...

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Blood Cells

as Lauren
Released: 2014-04-29

A decade after a catastrophe destroyed his family and their farm, momentous news from home...

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Bug

as Mother
Released: 2022-10-01

A frustrated mother forces her misbehaving daughter out of the car and loses her in a mysterious...

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Left Over

as Nel
Released: 2022-09-05

Nel packs up her late father's home while simultaneously unpacking memories of their volatile...

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Storm Witch

as Sinéad
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In the 17th century, long before modern science and in a time of great fear of the unknown, the...

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Black Mirror

as Gwendolyn Harris
First aired: 2011-12-04

Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before...

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Death in Paradise

as Grace Matlock
First aired: 2011-10-25

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling...

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The Crown

as Eileen Parker
First aired: 2016-11-04

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime...

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The Queen's Gambit

as Alice Harmon
First aired: 2020-10-23

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an...

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Industry

as Lisa Dearn
First aired: 2020-11-09

In the cutthroat world of international finance, a group of young graduates compete for a...

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Carnival Row

as Dahlia
First aired: 2019-08-29

In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective...

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Misfits

as Debbie
First aired: 2009-11-12

When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that...

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War and Peace

as Julie Karegina
First aired: 2016-01-03

A story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I,...

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Troy: Fall of a City

as Andromache
First aired: 2018-02-17

A rich story of love, intrigue, betrayal and belonging told from the perspective of the Trojan...

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Under the Banner of Heaven

as Matilda Lafferty
First aired: 2022-04-28

A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be...

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Temple

as Karen Hall
First aired: 2019-09-13

Talented and successful surgeon Daniel Milton has his world shattered when his wife Beth...

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The Game

as Wendy Straw
First aired: 2014-11-05

"The Game" is a 1970s Cold War spy thriller set in the world of espionage. It tells the story of...

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The Living and the Dead

as Lara
First aired: 2016-06-28

Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live...

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The Last Panthers

as Karla
First aired: 2015-11-12

The six-part series opens with a daring diamond heist before quickly delving into the dark heart...

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The Victim

as Ella Mackie
First aired: 2019-04-08

A grieving mother is accused of identifying online the man she believes killed her son. But is...

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