Emily Beecham (born 12 May 1984) is an American-British actress and singer. She is best known for her role in the
Coen Brothers film ''
Hail, Caesar!
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'', the
AMC
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Film and television
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series ''
Into the Badlands ''Into the Badlands'' may refer to:
* ''Into the Badlands'' (film), a 1991 television film;
* ''Into the Badlands'' (TV series), a 2015–2019 television series
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'', and the title role in the 2017 film ''
Daphne
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There are several versions of the myth in whi ...
''. She starred in the 2019 film ''
Little Joe'', for which she received the
Best Actress award at the
Cannes Film Festival
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.
Early life
Beecham was born in the
Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe () is a district of the city of Manchester, England. Historic counties of England, Historically in Cheshire, Wythenshawe was transferred in 1931 to the City of Manchester, which had begun building a massive housing estate there in the ...
suburb of
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
on 12 May 1984, the daughter of an English father and American mother from
Arizona
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. Her father is an airline pilot. She has dual British and American citizenship. In 2003, at the age of 18, she enrolled at the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) is a drama school located in Hammersmith, London. It is the oldest specialist drama school in the British Isles and a founding member of the Federation of Drama Schools.
LAMDA's Principal is ...
(LAMDA) and graduated with a
BA in 2006.
Career
In her final year at LAMDA, Beecham started accepting professional acting opportunities, with her first appearances occurring in the thriller ''Bon Voyage'' and the supernatural TV series ''
Afterlife
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''. Her first feature film, ''Bon Voyage'', premiered that October and received positive notices following its showing on
ITV
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ITV
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. It won the
Golden Nymph award at the June 2007
Monte Carlo
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Television Festival.
In mid-2007, Beecham was chosen by the director
Jan Dunn
Jan Dunn (born 15 May 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England) is a British filmmaker, who made her feature length directorial debut in 2005 with the film '' Gypo'', starring Paul McGann and Pauline McLynn, which won a British Independent Film Aw ...
for the leading role in her independent film ''
The Calling'', for which she won the Best Actress Award at the London Independent Film Festival, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival Trailblazer Award. The film received mixed reviews; however, one commented that "newcomer Emily Beecham plays a young woman determined to take the veil and holds her own well against such stalwarts as Brenda Blethyn and Susannah York". Film columnist Hannah McGill, the Edinburgh Festival's artistic director from 2006 to 2010, decided that Beecham should be one of the recipients of the coveted Skillset Trailblazer Award. That year, Beecham gave her first professional stage performance in
Ian McHugh's first play, ''How to Curse'', at the
Bush Theatre
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in
Shepherd's Bush, London
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Although primarily residential in character, i ...
, directed by the theatre's artistic director
Josie Rourke. In 2011, she received the Best Actress award at the London Independent Film Festival.
Beecham has appeared in numerous television series, including ''
Agatha Christie's Marple
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'', ''
Tess of The D'Urbervilles'', ''
Silent Witness
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'' and ''
The Street''. She was listed in ''
Nylon
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Nylon is a silk-like thermoplastic, generally made from petro ...
'' magazine's "Young Hollywood" issue as one of 55 "Faces of the Future", with the photograph captioned "Young Hollywood London". John Rankin, ''
Esquire
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'' magazine's veteran glamour photographer, was quoted as saying that she has "that something special, that thing you just feel about someone... she's one of the most exciting actresses out there".
In 2013, Beecham starred as Caro Allingham in ''
The Village,'' and as The Widow in the
AMC
AMC may refer to:
Film and television
* AMC Theatres, an American movie theater chain
* AMC Networks, an American entertainment company
** AMC (TV channel)
** AMC+, streaming service
** AMC Networks International, an entertainment company
*** AM ...
martial arts action drama series ''
Into the Badlands ''Into the Badlands'' may refer to:
* ''Into the Badlands'' (film), a 1991 television film;
* ''Into the Badlands'' (TV series), a 2015–2019 television series
{{Disambiguation ...
''. In 2016, she had a supporting role in the
Coen Brothers movie ''
Hail, Caesar!
''Hail, Caesar!'' is a 2016 period mystery musical black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. An American-British-Japanese co-production, the film stars Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenr ...
''. One year later she played the title role in ''
Daphne
Daphne (; ; el, Δάφνη, , ), a minor figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.
There are several versions of the myth in whi ...
, which'' earned her a nomination for the Best Actress award at the British Independent Film Awards. In 2019, she starred in the film ''
Little Joe'', for which she received the
Best Actress award at the
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...
. She also appeared in the
Netflix
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series ''
1899
Events January 1899
* January 1
** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.
** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City.
* January 2 –
**Bolivia sets up a c ...
'', created by
Jantje Friese
Jantje Friese (born 1977) is a German film producer and screenwriter known for co-creating the Netflix series ''Dark'' (2017–2020) and ''1899'' (2022) with her creative and romantic partner Baran bo Odar.
Work
Jantje Friese studied production ...
and
Baran bo Odar
Baran bo Odar (born 18 April 1978) is a German film and television director and screenwriter. He is known for co-creating the Netflix series ''Dark'' (2017–2020) and '' 1899'' (2022) with his creative and romantic partner, Jantje Friese.
His ...
; a period mystery/horror blend, the series was canceled after one season despite being one of the service's highest-rated shows at the time.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
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1984 births
21st-century American actresses
21st-century English actresses
Living people
Actresses from Manchester
Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
American film actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
British emigrants to the United States
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners
English film actresses
English people of American descent
English stage actresses
English television actresses
People educated at Hurtwood House