Biography
Alisha Weir is an Irish actress. Born on 26 September 2009 in Dublin, she began her career in theatre, appearing in the musical Once at Dublin's Olympia Theatre in 2017 and performing on Ireland's The Late Late Toy Show.
Her film debut came in 2018 with Don't Leave Home. She gained wider recognition as Matilda Wormwood in Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022), for which she won the Dublin Film Critics' Circle Breakthrough Artist award. She played Nancy Gooding in Wicked Little Letters (2023) and the title role in the horror film Abigail (2024), for which she trained in ballet and performed her own stunts. She has received nominations including for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.
