Chloe Pirrie (born 25 August 1987) is a Scottish actress. She has played main roles in the 2014 miniseries '' The Game'', the 2012 film ''

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'', and the 2015 television film ''

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''. She has also appeared in the 2016 miniseries '' War & Peace'', the 2015 film ''

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'', the 2015 film ''Blood Cells'' and "

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", a 2013 episode of ''

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''. In 2015 she also co-starred in the

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winner for

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'' Stutterer''.

Early life

Pirrie was raised in

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, and attended

the Mary Erskine School The Mary Erskine School, popularly known as "Mary Erskine's" or "MES", is an all-girls independent secondary school in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in 1694 and has a roll of around 750 pupils. It is the sister school of the all-boys Stewa ...

. She began acting in school and decided to pursue it as a career after being cast in a school production of ''

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''. She moved to London at the age of 18 to attend the

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and graduated in 2009.

Career

Pirrie's professional acting career began in 2009. She made her debut at the

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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 ''

'' (2012), a Scottish drama in which Pirrie played the eponymous main character. For this performance she won Most Promising Newcomer at the

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and was nominated for Best British Newcomer at the

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. In 2013, she played a politician in "

", an episode of the

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''. In the same year she was named as one of BAFTA's "Breakthrough Brits" and ''

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''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

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secretary. The following year she appeared as Sheila Birling in

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adaptation of

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's ''

'', in the miniseries ''

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'', the British independent film ''

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'', and the Italian film ''

''. In 2015, she starred as Ellie in the

winner for

, '' Stutterer''. She played Julie Karagina in the 2016 BBC miniseries '' War & Peace'' and was cast as

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in ''

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'', a BBC drama about the

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created by

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. 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

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series ''

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'' for its second season, playing Eileen Parker. In 2018, she appeared as

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in the BBC/

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'' Troy: Fall of a City''. In 2019, she appeared as prosecutor Ella Mackie in BBC's thriller miniseries '' The Victim''. In 2020, she appeared in

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of Jane Austen's novel '' Emma'' as Isabella Knightley, elder sister of the titular character played by

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. Later that year she also appeared in the Netflix miniseries '' The Queen's Gambit'' as Alice Harmon, the birth mother of

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(also played by Anya Taylor-Joy).

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pirrie, Chloe Living people 1987 births 21st-century Scottish actresses Actresses from Edinburgh People educated at the Mary Erskine School Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama