Scottish actress (born 1987)
Chloe Pirrie (born 1987 ) is a Scottish actress. She is known for her performance in the 2012 film Shell , and more recently in the TV series Under the Banner of Heaven Dept. Q (2025). Other credits include the TV series The Game (2014), War & Peace (2016), The Living and the Dead Brief Encounters The Crown The Queen's Gambit Carnival Row (2020-2023), and Hanna Youth (2015), Blood Cells (2015), Stutterer (2015), and Emma
Career Pirrie's professional acting career began while she was working as a waitress in a London burger restaurant. [ 3] She debuted at the Royal National Theatre in a 2010 production of Men Should Weep . [ 3] Her breakthrough role came in the feature film Shell (2012), a Scottish drama in which Pirrie played the eponymous main character. [ 1] For this performance she won Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2013 , [ 3] and was nominated for Best British Newcomer at the 2012 BFI London Film Festival Awards . [ 4] In 2013, she played a politician in "The Waldo Moment ", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror . [ 1] In the same year she was named as one of BAFTA 's "Breakthrough Brits", [ 3]
In 2014, Pirrie starred in the BBC miniseries The Game , a Cold War spy thriller in which she played an MI5 secretary. [ 2] The following year she appeared as Sheila Birling in Helen Edmundson 's BBC One adaptation of J. B. Priestley 's An Inspector Calls , [ 5] in the miniseries The Last Panthers , the British independent film Burn Burn Burn , and the Italian film Youth . [ 5]
In 2015, she starred as Ellie in the Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film , Stutterer . [ 5]
She played Julie Karagina in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace [ 1] and was cast as Emily Brontë in To Walk Invisible , a BBC drama about the Brontë family created by Sally Wainwright . [ 6] She also starred in episode "In the Footsteps of a Killer" as Grace Matlock, an employee at the Saint Marie Times in Death In Paradise . [ 5]
She also plays Lara in the 2016 BBC thriller series, The Living and the Dead . [ 7] In 2017, she starred in the Netflix series The Crown , [ 5] for its second season, playing Eileen Parker. In 2018, she appeared as Andromache in the BBC/Netflix miniseries Troy: Fall of a City . [ 8]
In 2019, she appeared as prosecutor Ella Mackie in BBC's thriller miniseries The Victim . [ 9]
In 2020, she appeared in Autumn de Wilde 's film adaptation [ 5] of Jane Austen's novel Emma as Isabella Knightley, elder sister of the titular character played by Anya Taylor-Joy . Later that year she also appeared as Alice Harmon, the birth mother of Beth Harmon (also played by Taylor-Joy), in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit . [ 5]
In 2025, she appeared in the main cast for the first season of the Netflix series Dept. Q , portraying abducted Crown solicitor Merritt Lingard. [ 3]
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