Emily Beecham

Emily Beecham
Beecham in 2017
Born	1985 (age 38–39) Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2006–present

Emily Beecham is an English-American actress. She is best known for her role in The Coen Brothers movie Hail, Caesar! and the AMC television series Into the Badlands. In 2017 she was nominated for Best Actress at the British Independent Film Awards In 2011, she received the Best Actress award at the London Independent Film Festival.

Early life

Beecham was born in Manchester, Greater Manchester. Her father is English and her mother is American from Arizona. In 2003, at the age of 18 she enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) for three years, graduating with BA Hons in 2006.

Career

In her final year at LAMDA, Beecham started accepting professional acting opportunities, with her first appearance occurring in thriller Bon Voyage and in the supernatural TV series Afterlife. The following month saw the premiere of her first feature film, Bon Voyage, receiving positive notices following its October debut on ITV. It won the Golden Nymph award at the June 2007 Monte Carlo Television Festival.

In mid-2007, she was chosen by director Jan Dunn for the leading role in her independent film The Calling which she won Best Actress Award for at London Independent Film Festival. She was a recipient of the Edinburgh International Film Festival Trailblazer Award. The film received mixed reviews, one of which 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". In highlighting the impression made by Beecham, film columnist Hannah McGill, who served as the Edinburgh Festival's artistic director from 2006 to 2010, decided that she should be one of the recipients of the coveted Skillset Trailblazer Award. That same year, Beecham gave her first professional stage performance in Ian McHugh's debut play, How to Curse, at the Bush Theatre in Shepherd's Bush, London, directed by the theatre's artistic director Josie Rourke.

Beecham has appeared in numerous television series, including Agatha Christie's Marple, Tess of The D'Urbervilles, and The Street. She was listed by Nylon magazine's "Young Hollywood" issue as one of 55 "Faces of the Future", with the photograph captioned "Young Hollywood London". John Rankin, Esquire magazine's veteran glamour photographer, was quoted as stating 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. She currently stars as The Widow in the AMC martial arts action drama series Into the Badlands.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Bon Voyage	Rachel Aldred	Television film
2007	28 Weeks Later	Karen
2007	Rise of the Footsoldier	Kelly
2007	Agatha Christie's Marple	Elvira Blake	Television film
2009	The Calling	Joanna
2010	Basement	Pru
2010	Pulse	Stella Hamilton	Television film
2013	The Thirteenth Tale	Isabelle Angelfield	Television film
2016	Hail, Caesar!	Diedre
2017	Daphne	Daphne	Nominated - British Independent Film Award for Best Actress

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Afterlife	Sash	1 episode
2007	The Innocence Project	Rachel	1 episode
2007	Party Animals	Vienna Lurie	1 episode
2007	New Tricks	Laura Small	1 episode
2007	The Bill	Angela Myatt	1 episode
2008	Lewis	Nell Buckley	1 episode
2008	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Retty Priddle	2 episodes
2009	Unforgiven	Lucy Belcome	3 episodes
2009	The Street	Gemma	2 episodes
2009	Merlin	Emmyria	1 episode
2010	Silent Witness	Anna Flannery	2 episodes
2011	The Runaway	Caroline Dixon	2 episodes
2012	Case Sensitive	Mary Trelease	2 episodes
2012	Damages	Rutger's Daughter	1 episode
2012	The Fear	Janey Beckett	3 episodes
2013	Blandings	Miss Younghusband	1 episode
2013	The Village	Caro Allingham	6 episodes
2014	The Musketeers	Adele Besset	1 episode
2015–present	Into the Badlands	The Widow	16 episodes

External links

• Emily Beecham at IMDb