Biography
Holliday Clark Grainger (born 27 March 1988), also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in the Strike series, DI Rachel Carey in the Peacock/BBC One crime drama The Capture and Estella in Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Mickey 17
2025
as Red Hair
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job…...
Animals
2019
as Laura
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged ...
Tell It to the Bees
2018
as Lydia Weekes
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie ...
Tulip Fever
2017
as Maria
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a ...
My Cousin Rachel
2017
as Louise
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicat...
Robot & Scarecrow
2017
as Robot
A love story between a robot and a scarecrow who meet and fall for each other at a summer music festival.
Home
2016
as Holly
As thousands of men, women and children attempt to get into Europe, a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday.
The Finest Hours
2016
as Miriam Webber
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
2015
as Lady Constance Chatterley
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeepe...
Cinderella
2015
as Anastasia Tremaine
When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, ...
The Riot Club
2014
as Lauren
Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one ev...
Goblin?
2014
as Elizabeth
Elizabeth has got her hands full with her boyfriend Harry, who's convinced there's a Goblin in the wardrobe. It's either the wrong relationship, or th...
Great Expectations
2012
as Estella Havisham
Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy ...
Anna Karenina
2012
as Baroness
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...
Bel Ami
2012
as Suzanne Rousset
Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from povert...
Jane Eyre
2011
as Diana Rivers
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...
Colette
2010
as Colette
Holliday Grainger provides a raw, emotional performance as Colette, a 16-year-old who finds it hard to love.
The Scouting Book for Boys
2010
as Emily
Thomas Turgoose (This Is England) stars as David, a young boy who lives a carefree life on a coastal caravan park with his best friend Emily (Holliday...
Awaydays
2009
as Molly
On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drud...
The Bad Mother's Handbook
2007
as Charlie Cooper
Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and fut...
Magnificent 7
2005
as Louise Jackson
Inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson, the story follows a self-sacrificing mother of seven children, four of whom are, in one form or another, autis...
The Illustrated Mum
2003
as Star Westward
Two sisters cope with the unpredictable behaviour of their depressed, alcoholic mother. Based on the novel by Jacqueline Wilson.
The Missing Postman
1997
as Harriet
When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpect...
Halo of Stars
N/A
as Emm
Set against the backdrop of a small traveling circus, a European clown and his 5-year-old daughter lead each other through the everyday mysteries of l...