Chloe Pirrie

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Chloe Pirrie
Born (1987-08-25) 25 August 1987 (age 36)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma mater Guildhall School of Music and Drama
OccupationActress
Years active2009–present

Chloe Pirrie (born 25 August 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 "The Waldo Moment", a 2013 episode of Black Mirror . In 2015 she also co-starred in the Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film Stutterer .

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Early life

Pirrie was raised in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, and attended the Mary Erskine School. [1] She began acting in school and decided to pursue it as a career after being cast in a school production of The Cherry Orchard . [2] She moved to London at the age of 18 to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama [1] and graduated in 2009. [2]

Career

Pirrie's professional acting career began in 2009.[ citation needed ] 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. [2] 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.[ citation needed ] In 2013, she played a politician in "The Waldo Moment", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror . [2] In the same year she was named as one of BAFTA's "Breakthrough Brits" and Screen International 's "UK Stars of Tomorrow". [1]

In 2014, Pirrie starred in the BBC miniseries The Game , a Cold War spy thriller in which she played an MI5 secretary. [1] 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 .

She played Julie Karagina in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace [2] and was cast as Emily Brontë in To Walk Invisible , a BBC drama about the Brontë family created by Sally Wainwright. [3] 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 . [4] In 2017, she starred in the Netflix series The Crown for its second season, playing Eileen Parker. In 2018, she appeared as Andromache in the BBC/Netflix miniseries Troy: Fall of a City . [5]

In 2019, she appeared as prosecutor Ella Mackie in BBC's thriller miniseries The Victim . [6]

In 2020, she appeared in Autumn de Wilde's film adaptation 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 in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit as Alice Harmon, the birth mother of Beth Harmon (also played by Anya Taylor-Joy).

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2012 Shell Shell
2014 Blood Cells Lauren
2015 Youth Girl Screenwriter
2015 Burn Burn Burn Alex
2020 Emma Isabella Knightley
2020 Kindred Jane
2020Look the Other Way and RunSammy

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2010 Doctors Megan RiosEpisode: "Day Zero"
2013 Black Mirror Gwendolyn HarrisEpisode: "The Waldo Moment"
2013 Misfits DebbieEpisode #5.5
2014 The Game Wendy Straw6 episodes
2015 An Inspector Calls Sheila BirlingTelevision film
2015 The Last Panthers Carla4 episodes
2016 War & Peace Julie Karagina3 episodes
2016 The Living and the Dead Lara4 episodes
2016 Brief Encounters Hellie6 episodes
2016 To Walk Invisible Emily Brontë Television film
2017 Death in Paradise Grace MatlockEpisode: "In the Footsteps of a Killer"
2017 The Crown Eileen Parker3 episodes
2018 Troy: Fall of a City Andromache 8 episodes
2019 The Victim Ella Mackie3 episodes
2019-2023 Carnival Row Dahlia4 episodes
2019 Temple D.I. Karen Hall7 episodes
2020 The Queen's Gambit Alice Harmon6 episodes
2021 Hanna Brianna Stapleton8 episodes
2022 Under the Banner of Heaven Matilda LaffertyMain cast
TBA Department Q Merrit LingardFilming [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lavery, Jen (28 October 2013). "Actress Chloe Pirrie goes from burgers to Baftas". Edinburgh Evening News . Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Rising Scots actor Chloe Pirrie on BBC spy drama The Game". The Herald . Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Barraclough, Leo (21 April 2016). "'Game of Thrones' Actor Jonathan Pryce Joins Sally Wainwright's Brontë Drama". Variety . Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Episode 6, The Living and the Dead - BBC One". BBC. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "'Troy: Fall Of A City': Bella Dayne, Louis Hunter & More Join BBC/Netflix Epic". Deadline. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Meet the cast of BBC1's The Victim". Radio Times.
  7. ↑ O'Rourke, Ryan (6 February 2024). "Matthew Goode Leads Netflix's Gritty New Crime Drama 'Department Q'". Collider. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
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