Young British Actresses

1. Anya Taylor-Joy

Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996) is a British-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit (2020), Thomasin in the period horror film The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015), as Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller Split (2016), and as ...

2. Florence Pugh

Actress | The Falling

Florence Pugh is an English actress. She is known for Midsommar (2019), Little Women (2019), her MCU debut Black Widow (2021), and Fighting with My Family (2019).

Pugh made her film debut in The Falling (2014). She also appears in Lady Macbeth (2016), Outlaw King (2018), Malevolent (2018), and the ...

3. Rachel Redford

Actress | Shadow and Bone

Rachel Redford is known for Shadow and Bone (2021), House of the Dragon (2022) and Gap Year (2017).

4. Jodie Tyack

Actress | Wreck

Jodie Tyack is known for Wreck (2022), Noughts + Crosses (2020) and The Window (2022).

5. Mia Goth

Actress | Pearl

Mia Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth, also known by her nickname Brush Cut, was born October 25, 1993 in Southwark, London, England to a Brazilian mother and a Canadian father.

Aged 14, she was discovered at the Underage Festival in London by fashion photographer Gemma Booth, who signed her to Storm Model ...

6. Stacy Martin

Actress | Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Stacy Martin was born on March 20, 1990 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013), All the Money in the World (2017) and The Serpent (2021).

7. Lily Newmark

Actress | Solo: A Star Wars Story

Lily Newmark is a British-American actor, born and raised in London. Her interest in performance began at 14, when she made costumes for the National Youth Theatre. After spending two years with the Albany Theatre Company in Deptford, she later joined the National Youth Theatre as an actor. She ...

8. Sophie Kennedy Clark

Actress | Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Sophie Kennedy Clark was born in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. She is known for Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013), Philomena (2013) and Sorority (2022).

9. Daisy Ridley

Actress | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley is an English actress. She is best known for her breakthrough role as "Rey" in the 2015 film, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015). Daisy was born in Westminster, London, on April 10, 1992. She is the daughter of Louise Fawkner-Corbett and Chris Ridley. Her ...

10. Lara Peake

Actress | How to Have Sex

Lara Peake is an actor and writer, known for How to Have Sex (2023), Mood (2022) and Brave New World (2020).

11. Tallulah Haddon

Actress | The Last Duel

Tallulah Haddon was born on September 9, 1997 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Last Duel (2021), Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) and Spaceship (2016).

12. Hermione Corfield

Actress | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Hermione Isla Conyngham Corfield is an English actress. She has appeared in films, including Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Mr. Holmes (2015), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Rust Creek (2018) and The Misfits (...

13. Emma Appleton

Actress | The Witcher

Emma Appleton was born in December 1991 in Witney, Oxfordshire, England as Emma Jill Appleton. She attended West Witney Primary School and then Wood Green School. Appleton began a modelling career as a teenager, which progressed to acting in 2017, when an opportunity opened for the cast of the BBC ...

14. Synnove Karlsen

Actress | Last Night in Soho

Synnøve Karlsen is a Norwegian Scottish actress best known for playing Clarice Orsini in the historical drama series Medici, Holly McStay in the BBC thriller series Clique and Jocasta in the 2021 Edgar Wright psychological horror film Last Night in Soho. Karlsen was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and ...

15. Emilia Jones

Actress | CODA

Emilia Jones was recently named one of Variety's 10 Actors to Watch.

She is best known for playing the lead role of Ruby Rossi in CODA which won the Best Picture Oscar in 2022. Her performance garnered her 13 wins and 25 nominations including a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

For...

16. Millie Bobby Brown

Actress | Enola Holmes

Millie Bobby Brown (born 19 February 2004) is an English actress and model. She rose to prominence for her role as Eleven in the Netflix science fiction drama series Stranger Things (2016), for which she earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series ...

17. Olivia Cooke

Actress | Ready Player One

Olivia Cooke was born and raised in Oldham, a former textile manufacturing town in Greater Manchester, North West England. She comes from a family of non-actors; her father, John, is a retired police officer, and her mother is a sales representative. Cooke attended Royton and Crompton Secondary ...

18. Ellise Chappell

Actress | Yesterday

Ellise Chappell was born on March 21, 1992 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Yesterday (2019), Poldark (2015) and Deliver Us Mars (2023).

19. Shannon Tarbet

Actress | Beast

Shannon Tarbet is an English actress from Brighton.

She came to public attention in 2010 with her professional stage debut in Spur of the Moment by Anya Reiss directed by Jeremy Herrin at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

Tarbet is known for Killing Eve (2019), Genius: Einstein (2017) and Beast (...

20. Bel Powley

Actress | The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Isobel Dorothy Powley is an English actress. Powley was born and raised in London, where she was educated at Holland Park School. She began acting as a teenager on television, starring on the CBBC action television series M.I. High (2007-2008), the period miniseries Little Dorrit (2008), the crime ...

21. Hannah Murray

Actress | God Help the Girl

Hannah Murray is an English actress known for portraying Gilly in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011) and Cassie Ainsworth in the E4 teen drama series Skins (2007), from 2007 to 2008 (and again in 2013). In 2014, Murray starred in God Help the Girl (2014). In 2015, she played Sara in the Danish ...

22. Jessica Barden

Actress | Hanna

Jessica Barden is an English actress. She is best known for playing Alyssa in Channel 4 series The End of the F***ing World, and the film The Lobster (2015).

She also had small roles in Tamara Drewe (2010), Hanna (2011) and Far from the Madding Crowd (2015).

In 2016 she played Justine in Penny ...

23. Hannah Rae

Actress | City of Tiny Lights

Hannah Rae was born on July 18, 1997 in England, UK. She is an actress, known for City of Tiny Lights (2016), Broadchurch (2013) and Fighting with My Family (2019).

24. Ella Purnell

Actress | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ella Purnell was born in London, U.K. She is best known for her roles in Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (2016), in BBC One's Ordeal By Innocence (2017) and Starz' Sweetbitter (2017), in which she plays the series lead role of Tess in the adaptation of Stephanie Danler's ...

25. Lauren McCrostie

Actress | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Lauren McCrostie was born on January 10, 1996 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), The Falling (2014) and Second Skin (2016).

26. Sorcha Groundsell

Actress | Far from the Apple Tree

Sorcha Groundsell was born in 1998 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Far from the Apple Tree (2019), The Innocents (2018) and The Harrowing (2020).

27. Grace Hogg-Robinson

Actress | The Coroner

Grace Hogg-Robinson was born in England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Coroner (2015), Flesh and Blood (2020) and Cobra (2020).

28. Imogen Poots

Actress | Vivarium

British actress Imogen Poots was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the daughter of English-born Fiona (Goodall), a journalist, and Trevor Poots, a Northern Ireland-born television producer. She was educated at Bute House Preparatory School for Girls, Queen's Gate School for Girls and Latymer ...

29. Jessica Brown Findlay

Actress | Brave New World

Jessica Brown Findlay is an English actress. She is known for Emelia Conan-Doyle in the British comedy-drama Albatross (2011), Winter's Tale (2014), This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) and Lady Sybil Crawley in ITV's Downton Abbey (2010). She also starred in the TV series Misfits (2009) and mini-series ...

30. Samantha Colley

Actress | Solo: A Star Wars Story

Samantha Colley was born on March 22, 1989 in Canterbury, Kent, England. She is an actress, known for Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Genius (2017) and The Crucible (2014).

31. Kaya Scodelario

Actress | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Kaya Rose Scodelario was born in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, to Katia (Scodelario) and Roger Humphrey. Her father was English and her mother is Brazilian, of Italian and Portuguese descent. Her surname comes from her mother's Italian grandfather. Thanks to her mother, Kaya grew up fluent in ...

32. Ella-Rae Smith

Actress | Sweetheart

Ella-Rae Smith was born on February 21, 1998 in Bristol, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Sweetheart (2021), Into the Badlands (2015) and Clique (2017).

33. Abigail Lawrie

Actress | Tin Star

Abigail Lawrie was born in 1997 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for Tin Star (2017), Our Ladies (2019) and The Man with the Iron Heart (2017).

34. Molly Wright

Actress | Apostasy

Molly Wright is known for Apostasy (2017), Our Girl (2013) and Casualty (1986).

35. Holly Earl

Actress | Humans

Holly Earl was born on August 31, 1992 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Humans (2015), Erica (2019) and Loving Vincent (2017).

36. Daisy Waterstone

Actress | The Durrells

Daisy Waterstone was born on June 13, 1994 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Durrells (2016), Testament of Youth (2014) and The Capture (2019).

37. Elizabeth McCafferty

The Hitman's Bodyguard

Elizabeth McCafferty is known for The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017), The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) and Dumbo (2019).

38. Tanya Reynolds

Actress | Sex Education

Tanya Reynolds was born on November 4, 1991 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Sex Education (2019), Emma. (2020) and The Baby (2022).

39. Daisy Edgar-Jones

Actress | Normal People

Born in 1998 and raised in London, Daisy trained with the National Youth Theatre before landing her first professional job at 17, playing the regular role of Olivia in the returning British series Cold Feet alongside James Nesbitt and Hermione Norris for ITV. Daisy has since gone on to build a ...

40. Freya Mavor

Actress | La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil

Freya Mavor was born in Glasgow but grew up in Canonmills, Edinburgh, after moving there with her family. She also spent four years of her early adolescence in La Rochelle, France, before moving back to Scotland.

Mavor declared she first became interested in acting after watching The Shining (1980) ...

41. Abigail Hardingham

Actress | Nina Forever

Abigail Hardingham is known for Nina Forever (2015), The Missing (2014) and Custom (2024).

42. Olivia Popica

Actress | Liaison

Olivia Popica is known for Liaison (2023), Informer (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018).

43. Kristy Philipps

Actress | Cleaning Up

Kristy Philipps is known for Cleaning Up (2019), Will (2017) and Halfway (2018).

44. Eloise Smyth

Actress | Cyn

Eloise Smyth was born in March 1995 in London, United Kingdom. She is an actress and producer, known for Cyn (2021), How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) and Harlots (2017).