Biography
Emerald Lilly Fennell (/fɪˈnɛl/; born 1 October 1985) is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first gained attention for her roles in period films, such as Albert Nobbs (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), and The Danish Girl (2015). She gained prominence for her starring role in the BBC One drama series Call the Midwife (2013–...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Wuthering Heights
2026
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Hea...
Prüdes Hollywood - Laster, Lust und Leidenschaft im Film
2025
In recent years, Hollywood productions have turned away from sensuality. Is the sex scene on the verge of extinction or reinvention? Alongside film pr...
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
2024
as Self
A star-studded retrospective reunites the lead cast for the first time since 2016 to rampage down memory lane revealing how the show was made, pay tri...
Saltburn
2023
Writer, Director, Producer
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catt...
Barbie
2023
as Midge
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to...
Promising Young Woman
2020
as Woman in Makeup Tutorial (uncredited)
A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
Promising Young Woman
2020
Producer, Director, Writer
A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
Vita & Virginia
2019
as Vanessa Bell
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventi...
Careful How You Go
2018
Screenplay, Director
A darkly comic psychological horror, which visits three women as they indulge their taste for recreational cruelty.
The Darkest Universe
2016
as Jess
A romantic comedy set in space, or - to be more specific - planet Earth which follows world-weary banker Zac on his search for his eccentric sister, A...
The Danish Girl
2015
as Elsa
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as L...
Pan
2015
as Commander
Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits a...
Murder on the Home Front
2013
as Issy Quennell
At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is...
The Lady Vanishes
2013
as Odette
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers c...
Anna Karenina
2012
as Princess Merkalova
In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vro...
Albert Nobbs
2011
as Mrs. Smythe-Willard
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a...
Mr. Nice
2010
as Rachel
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as le...
Nemesis
N/A
Screenplay
A brilliant and malevolent force of chaos pits himself against the world's elite law enforcement in a deadly game of high-stakes cat and mouse.