Biography
Imogen Gay Poots (born June 3, 1989) is an English actress and model. She played Tammy in the post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Weeks Later (2007), Linda Keith in the Jimi Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013), Debbie Raymond in the Paul Raymond biopic The Look of Love (2013), and Julia Maddon in the American action film Need for Speed (2014). Also in 2014, she portrayed Jesse Crichton in A Long Way Down, alongside Pierce Brosnan and Aaron Paul. In 2016, she starred as Kelly Ann in the Sho...
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Complete Filmography

The Chronology of Water
2025
as Lidia Yuknavitch
Growing up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, a young woman struggles to find her path. She manages to escape her family and enters...

Hedda
2025
as Thea
Stuck in a loveless marriage, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can't provide. When a former flame reappears, her new life beg...

All of You
2025
as Laura
Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk...

The Teacher
2024
as Lisa
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his ...

Baltimore
2024
as Rose Dugdale
Based on actual events that took place on 26 April 1974, former debutante turned IRA member Rose Dugdale and three comrades carried out an armed raid ...

French Exit
2021
as Susan
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husb...

Castle in the Ground
2021
as Ana
After the untimely death of his mother, a grieving teen befriends his charismatic but troubled neighbor, only to become ensnared in a world of addicti...

The Father
2020
as Laura
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved o...

Black Christmas
2019
as Riley Stone
A group of sorority pledges are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young women discover that the killer is part of ...

Vivarium
2019
as Gemma Pierce
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, t...

Vivarium
2019
Executive Producer
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, t...

The Art of Self-Defense
2019
as Anna
Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend h...

Age Out
2018
as Joan
Fresh out of foster care at age 18, a young drifter turns to petty crime to survive, and discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend.

Sweet Virginia
2017
as Lila Mccabe
A former rodeo star, now a motel manager, meets a young man who is responsible for the violence that suddenly has seized his small town.

I Kill Giants
2017
as Karen Thorson
Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its...

Mobile Homes
2017
as Ali
In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son....

National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2017
as Honey
In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has invited the new professo...
Have Had
2017
as Grace
Grace and Adam had never met--until their mother died. To Grace she was a stranger. To Adam she was everything. Now, they have to uncover what they wi...

Frank & Lola
2016
as Lola
A talented Las Vegas chef falls in love with an aspiring fashion designer but turns violently jealous when he realizes that she's hiding dark secrets.

Killing for Love
2016
as Elizabeth Haysom (voice)
Derek and Nancy Haysom were brutally murdered in their house in Lynchburg, Virginia, on March 30, 1985. Suspicion fell on their daughter Elizabeth and...

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2016
as Ashley Wednesday
When his new album fails to sell records, pop/rap superstar Conner4real goes into a major tailspin and watches his celebrity high life begin to collap...

Green Room
2016
as Amber
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.

A Country Called Home
2016
as Ellie Edwards
Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that ...

Knight of Cups
2015
as Della
Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in...

She's Funny That Way
2015
as Isabella Patterson
On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the productio...

A Long Way Down
2014
as Jess Crichton
Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother, and a solipsistic muso—decide to end their lives on the same...

Need for Speed
2014
as Julia Maddon
The film revolves around a local street-racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague a...

That Awkward Moment
2014
as Ellie Andrews
Best pals Jason and Daniel indulge in casual flings and revel in their carefree, unattached lives. After learning that the marriage of their friend Mi...

Filth
2013
as Drummond
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promoti...

Jimi: All Is by My Side
2013
as Linda Keith
A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's life as he left New York City for London, where his career took off.

Greetings from Tim Buckley
2013
as Allie
A chronicle of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's performance at his father's tribute concert in 1991.

The Look of Love
2013
as Debbie Raymond
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, De...

Discord and Harmony: Creating a Late Quartet
2013
as Self
Featurette on the making of A Late Quartet (2012).

A Late Quartet
2012
as Alexandra Gelbart
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the bal...

Comes a Bright Day
2012
as Mary Bright
A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London’s most exclusive jewellers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and neve...

Fright Night
2011
as Amy Petersen
A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and mag...

Waking Madison
2011
as Alexis
A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.

Christopher and His Kind
2011
as Jean Ross
In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He ...

Rule Number Three
2011
as Rachel
Starring young British actors Nicholas Hoult and Imogen Poots, Rule Number Three is a Comedy in which a young couple communicate through a game of Scr...

Jane Eyre
2011
as Blanche Ingram
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...

Chatroom
2010
as Eva
When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charis...

Centurion
2010
as Arianne
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Leg...

Cracks
2009
as Poppy
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

Solitary Man
2009
as Allyson Karsch
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

Me and Orson Welles
2008
as Lorelei Lathrop
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

Miss Austen Regrets
2008
as Fanny Austen Knight
Jane Austen is about to turn 40, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the per...
Wish
2007
as Jane
Two girls, two boys, a game where nobody wins.

28 Weeks Later
2007
as Tammy Harris
Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the ...

V for Vendetta
2006
as Young Valerie
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive B...

The Sleeping Shepherd
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as Karoline
The world's greatest art thief collects almost two-billion dollars in masters only to have his mother burn them all in the family backyard.