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Chloe Pirrie

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Chloe Pirrie
Pirrie in Shell 2012
Born (1987-08-25) 25 August 1987 (age 37)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma materGuildhall School of Music and Drama
OccupationActress
Years active2009–present

Chloe Pirrie (born 25 August 1987) is a Scottish actress. Her most notable performance was in the film Shell (2012). Other credits include The Game (2014), An Inspector Calls (2015), War & Peace (2016), Youth (2015), Blood Cells (2015), episode "The Waldo Moment", of Black Mirror (2015), Stutterer (2015), The Living and the Dead (2016), Brief Encounters (2016), The Crown (2017), Troy: Fall of a City (2018), Temple (2019), Carnival Row (2020-2023), The Queen's Gambit (2020), Emma (2020), Hanna (2021), Under the Banner of Heaven (2022), and Dept. Q (2025).

Early life

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Pirrie was raised in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, and attended the Mary Erskine School.[1] She began acting in school and decided to pursue it as a career after being cast in a school production of The Cherry Orchard.[2] She moved to London at the age of 18 to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama[1] and graduated in 2009.[2]

Career

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Pirrie's professional acting career began while she was working as a waitress in a London burger restaurant.[3] She debuted at the Royal National Theatre in a 2010 production of Men Should Weep.[3] Her breakthrough role came in the feature film Shell (2012), a Scottish drama in which Pirrie played the eponymous main character.[2] For this performance she won Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2013,[3] and was nominated for Best British Newcomer at the 2012 BFI London Film Festival Awards.[4] In 2013, she played a politician in "The Waldo Moment", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.[2] In the same year she was named as one of BAFTA's "Breakthrough Brits",[3]

In 2014, Pirrie starred in the BBC miniseries The Game, a Cold War spy thriller in which she played an MI5 secretary.[1] The following year she appeared as Sheila Birling in Helen Edmundson's BBC One adaptation of J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls,[5] in the miniseries The Last Panthers, the British independent film Burn Burn Burn, and the Italian film Youth.[5]

In 2015, she starred as Ellie in the Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film, Stutterer.[5]

She played Julie Karagina in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace[2] and was cast as Emily Brontë in To Walk Invisible, a BBC drama about the Brontë family created by Sally Wainwright.[6] She also starred in episode "In the Footsteps of a Killer" as Grace Matlock, an employee at the Saint Marie Times in Death In Paradise.[5]

She also plays Lara in the 2016 BBC thriller series, The Living and the Dead.[7] In 2017, she starred in the Netflix series The Crown,[5] for its second season, playing Eileen Parker. In 2018, she appeared as Andromache in the BBC/Netflix miniseries Troy: Fall of a City.[8]

In 2019, she appeared as prosecutor Ella Mackie in BBC's thriller miniseries The Victim.[9]

In 2020, she appeared in Autumn de Wilde's film adaptation[5] of Jane Austen's novel Emma as Isabella Knightley, elder sister of the titular character played by Anya Taylor-Joy. Later that year she also appeared as Alice Harmon, the birth mother of Beth Harmon (also played by Taylor-Joy), in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit.[5]

In 2025, she starred alongside Matthew Goode and Shirley Henderson in the main role of hostage victim Merritt Linngard in the Netflix series Dept. Q.[3]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2012 Shell Shell
2014 Blood Cells Lauren
2015 Youth Girl Screenwriter
Burn Burn Burn Alex
2020 Emma Isabella Knightley
Kindred Jane
Look the Other Way and Run Sammy
2024 Kryptic Kay Hall

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2010 Doctors Megan Rios Episode: "Day Zero"
2013 Black Mirror Gwendolyn Harris Episode: "The Waldo Moment"
Misfits Debbie Episode #5.5
2014 The Game Wendy Straw 6 episodes
2015 An Inspector Calls Sheila Birling Television film
The Last Panthers Carla 4 episodes
2016 War & Peace Julie Karagina 3 episodes
The Living and the Dead Lara 4 episodes
Brief Encounters Hellie 6 episodes
To Walk Invisible Emily Brontë Television film
2017 Death in Paradise Grace Matlock Episode: "In the Footsteps of a Killer"
The Crown Eileen Parker 3 episodes
2018 Troy: Fall of a City Andromache 8 episodes
2019 The Victim Ella Mackie 3 episodes
Temple D.I. Karen Hall 7 episodes
2019–2023 Carnival Row Dahlia 5 episodes
2020 The Queen's Gambit Alice Harmon 6 episodes
2021 Hanna Brianna Stapleton
2022 Under the Banner of Heaven Matilda Lafferty Main role, miniseries
2025 Dept. Q Merritt Lingard 9 episodes

References

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  1. ^ a b c Lavery, Jen (28 October 2013). "Actress Chloe Pirrie goes from burgers to Baftas". Edinburgh Evening News. Archived from the original on 31 October 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Rising Scots actor Chloe Pirrie on BBC spy drama The Game". The Herald. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e Monde Mwitumwa (4 June 2025). "Edinburgh star Chloe Pirrie's life away from Dept.Q from romances to Hollywood ties". msn.com. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  4. ^ "Official Competition | Best Film". BFI. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "Chloe Pirrie Credits". tvguide.com. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  6. ^ Barraclough, Leo (21 April 2016). "'Game of Thrones' Actor Jonathan Pryce Joins Sally Wainwright's Brontë Drama". Variety. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Episode 6, The Living and the Dead - BBC One". BBC. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  8. ^ "'Troy: Fall Of A City': Bella Dayne, Louis Hunter & More Join BBC/Netflix Epic". Deadline. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  9. ^ "Meet the cast of BBC1's The Victim". Radio Times.
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