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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

Television

References

1. "Nominations 2017". BIFA - British Independent Film Awards.
2. "The Film Festival Guild". The Film Festival Guild.
3. Film review excerpts at Guerilla Films website
4. Emily Beecham in Nylon magazine

External links

• Emily Beecham at IMDb

• Use dmy dates from September 2011
• English film actresses
• English television actresses
• English stage actresses
• American film actresses
• American television actresses
• American stage actresses
• Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
• Actresses from Manchester
• Living people
• 1984 births
• People educated at Hurtwood House
• 21st-century English actresses
• 21st-century American actresses
• English people of American descent
• British emigrants to the United States