Emerald Fennell

Born: 1985-10-01

Emerald Lilly Fennell (born October 1, 1985) is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first gained attention for her roles in period drama films, such as Albert Nobbs (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), The Danish Girl (2015), and Vita and Virginia (2018). She went on to receive wider recognition for her starring roles in the BBC One period drama series Call the Midwife (2013–17) and for her portrayal of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in the Netflix period drama series The Crown (2019–20). As a writer-director, Fennell is known as the showrunner for season two of the BBC thriller series Killing Eve (2019), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2020, Fennell made her feature film directorial debut with the thriller Promising Young Woman (2020), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and received nominations for Best Picture, and Best Director, becoming one of only seven women, and the first British woman, to be nominated for the latter.


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Barbie

as Midge
Released: 2023-07-19

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of...

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Pan

as Commander
Released: 2015-09-24

Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to...

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The Danish Girl

as Elsa
Released: 2015-11-27

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the...

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as Woman in Makeup Tutorial (uncredited)
Released: 2020-12-13

A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who...

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as Princess Merkalova
Released: 2012-09-06

In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother....

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Albert Nobbs

as Mrs. Smythe-Willard
Released: 2011-12-21

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to...

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as Rachel
Released: 2010-10-07

Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes...

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The Lady Vanishes

as Odette
Released: 2013-03-17

Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris...

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Vita & Virginia

as Vanessa Bell
Released: 2019-05-02

Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s...

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Murder on the Home Front

as Issy Quennell
Released: 2013-05-09

At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is...

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Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out

as Self
Released: 2024-10-17

A star-studded retrospective reunites the lead cast for the first time since 2016 to rampage...

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The Darkest Universe

as Jess
Released: 2016-11-04

A romantic comedy set in space, or - to be more specific - planet Earth which follows...

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Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self
First aired: 2014-02-25

Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular...

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Call the Midwife

as Patsy Mount
First aired: 2012-01-15

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of...

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Call the Midwife

as Nurse Patsy Mount
First aired: 2012-01-15

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of...

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The Crown

as Camilla Shand / Camilla Parker Bowles
First aired: 2016-11-04

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

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Victoria

as Lady Lovelace
First aired: 2016-08-28

The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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Blandings

as Monica Simmons
First aired: 2013-01-13

Blandings is a British comedy television series adapted by Guy Andrews from the Blandings Castle...

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Any Human Heart

as Lottie
First aired: 2010-11-21

Logan Mountstuart, writer and adventurer, narrates his life, from the Paris of the twenties to...

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Drifters

as Lizzie
First aired: 2013-10-31

Comedy series about three young women living in Leeds who've graduated, had a year out, and are...

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Murder on the Home Front

as Issy Quennell
First aired: 2013-05-09

Crime drama set during the Blitz. After several women are murdered, pathologist Lennox Collins...

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Chickens

as Agnes
First aired: 2013-08-22

It's the First World War. Our nation's heroes are fighting the good fight on foreign soil, but...

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