---
name: "Cailee Spaeny"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/cailee-spaeny"
fi1m_id: "cailee-spaeny"
imdb_id: "nm8314228"
tmdb_id: 1683343
wikidata_id: "Q43387663"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 July 1998"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 8
updated: "2026-09-24T00:27:51.911086+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Cailee Spaeny

## Identity

Cailee Spaeny

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/cailee-spaeny
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** cailee-spaeny
- **IMDb ID:** nm8314228
- **TMDB ID:** 1683343
- **Wikidata ID:** Q43387663
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cailee_Spaeny, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43387663, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8314228/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1683343

Actor. Born 24 July 1998 in Springfield, Missouri, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 July 1998, Springfield, Missouri, USA
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Also known as:** Cailee Johnamae Spaeny
- **Frequently works with:** [Alex Garland](https://film.one/person/alex-garland.md), [Stephen McKinley Henderson](https://film.one/person/stephen-mckinley-henderson.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 8 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 56 (2), 2020s 73 (6)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 70 across 8 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 7 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 7 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Mystery 3, Action 2, Comedy 2, Science Fiction 2, Adventure 1
- **Screen time:** 12 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $878m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cailee_Spaeny, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43387663, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8314228/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1683343

## Coming up

- *Elden Ring* (2028-03-03)

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Mare of Easttown*](https://film.one/tv/mare-of-easttown.md) (78), [*Pacific Rim: Uprising*](https://film.one/film/pacific-rim-uprising.md) (52)
- **Disney+:** [*Alien: Romulus*](https://film.one/film/alien-romulus.md) (70), [*Devs*](https://film.one/tv/devs.md) (68)
- **Netflix:** [*Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery*](https://film.one/film/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery.md) (77)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Priscilla*](https://film.one/film/priscilla.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Cailee Spaeny

> Cailee Spaeny stays small in the frame and does little with her face, and what she does is show other people acting on her. In *Priscilla* that carries the film; elsewhere she has mostly been the apprentice, and she is better than the parts.

Elvis looks at a dress with a print on it, says mildly that it does not suit her, and picks another. Cailee Spaeny, as Priscilla, plays her as pleased. That is what she does that other young actors do not: she lets somebody else change her and shows us the change landing, without a flicker of protest to reassure us. Philippe Le Sourd shoots her small in wide rooms and she stays small; when Jacob Elordi's Elvis walks in he takes most of the frame and she lets him. We watched her be pleased and felt cold, because nothing in her face was asking us to worry.

She has been at this longer than her age suggests. She left school at thirteen to act, and her first sizeable film part was *Pacific Rim: Uprising* (2018), a studio machine that needed a wide-eyed junior and got one. Television gave her more to do. In Alex Garland's *Devs* (2020) she plays Lyndon, an engineer who is cleverer than everyone on the campus and cannot stop saying so, and she and Stephen McKinley Henderson are the pleasure of the middle hours. *Mare of Easttown* (2021) followed. Then Sofia Coppola cast her in *Priscilla* (2023), from fourteen to a married woman, and the part made sense of everything before it.

Since then she has been busy and somewhat under-used. Garland brought her back for *Civil War* (2024) as Jessie, the apprentice photographer beside Kirsten Dunst, and she plays the hardening cleanly even where the script draws it in straight lines. In Fede Álvarez's *Alien: Romulus* (2024) she is Rain, watchful and unfussy, and she does panic well, which matters more on that station than heroics; still, David Jonsson's synthetic gets the film's one real question and she gets the running. Rian Johnson's *Wake Up Dead Man* (2025) puts her in a pew with half a dozen other well-known actors and leaves her there.

The pattern is plain. Directors who like atmosphere and silence keep hiring her, because she can hold a frame without filling it, and then they hand the arc to someone else. Garland twice, Álvarez, Johnson: she is the junior, the apprentice, the one being taught. Coppola is the only one so far who has built a film on what happens to her face over an hour and a half, and *Priscilla* is the one we would send a stranger to. She is worth watching in all of them. She is still waiting for the second director to notice what the first one saw.

## Biography

Cailee Spaeny is an American actress. She was born on 24 July 1998 in Springfield, Missouri.

Her early film roles include Amara Namani in *Pacific Rim: Uprising* (2018) and Rose Summerspring in *Bad Times at the El Royale* (2018). She later appeared in *Vice* (2018), *On the Basis of Sex* (2018), *Mare of Easttown* (2021) and *BEEF* (2023).

Spaeny received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance as Priscilla Presley in *Priscilla* (2023). She has also starred as Jessie in *Civil War* (2024), Rain in *Alien: Romulus* (2024) and Simone Vivane in *Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, vogue.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (8)

- *Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery* (2025), Fi1m 77, as Simone Vivane — [page](https://film.one/film/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery.md)
- *Alien: Romulus* (2024), Fi1m 70, as Rain — [page](https://film.one/film/alien-romulus.md)
- *Civil War* (2024), Fi1m 70, as Jessie — [page](https://film.one/film/civil-war.md)
- *Priscilla* (2023), Fi1m 74, as Priscilla — [page](https://film.one/film/priscilla.md)
- *Mare of Easttown* (2021), Fi1m 78, as Erin McMenamin — [page](https://film.one/tv/mare-of-easttown.md)
- *Devs* (2020), Fi1m 68, as Lyndon — [page](https://film.one/tv/devs.md)
- *Pacific Rim: Uprising* (2018), Fi1m 52, as Amara Namani — [page](https://film.one/film/pacific-rim-uprising.md)
- *Vice* (2018), Fi1m 61, as 17 Year Old Lynne Vincent — [page](https://film.one/film/vice.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Elden Ring* (2028), Actor
- *Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery* (2025), as Simone Vivane — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery.md)
- *Alien: Romulus* (2024), as Rain — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/alien-romulus.md)
- *Civil War* (2024), as Jessie — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/civil-war.md)
- *Priscilla* (2023), as Priscilla — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/priscilla.md)
- *BEEF* (2023), series, as Ashley Miller · Executive Producer
- *Unlimited World* (2022), as Lars
- *The First Lady* (2022), series, as Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
- *How It Ends* (2021), as Young Liza
- *Mare of Easttown* (2021), series, as Erin McMenamin — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/mare-of-easttown.md)
- *The Craft: Legacy* (2020), as Lily
- *Devs* (2020), series, as Lyndon — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/devs.md)
- *Vice* (2018), as 17 Year Old Lynne Vincent — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/vice.md)
- *On the Basis of Sex* (2018), as Jane C. Ginsburg
- *Bad Times at the El Royale* (2018), as Rose Summerspring
- *Pacific Rim: Uprising* (2018), as Amara Namani — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/pacific-rim-uprising.md)
- *Counting to 1000* (2016), as Erica
- *Deep Cuts*, as Percy Marks

## Gallery

- ![Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla in Priscilla (2023)](https://film.one/media/title/1128/still-3efe053867b4.jpg) Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla in *Priscilla* (2023) — Image via TMDB
- ![Cailee Spaeny as Rain in Alien: Romulus (2024)](https://film.one/media/title/1081/still-9243a675be1a.jpg) Cailee Spaeny as Rain in *Alien: Romulus* (2024) — Image via TMDB
- ![Cailee Spaeny](https://film.one/media/person/681/gallery-a11e1f1c751b.jpg) Cailee Spaeny — Max Surprenant, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Cailee_Spaeny_TIFF_2025_2_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Cailee Spaeny at the world premiere of Civil War at South by Southwest 2024](https://film.one/media/person/681/gallery-e6750c4db722.jpg) Cailee Spaeny at the world premiere of Civil War at South by Southwest 2024 — Jay Dixit, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/2024-03-14_SXSW_Civil-War_13.jpg/1280px-2024-03-14_SXSW_Civil-War_13.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cailee Spaeny at the world premiere of Civil War at South by Southwest 2024](https://film.one/media/person/681/gallery-4b3fcfd3b7c7.jpg) Cailee Spaeny at the world premiere of Civil War at South by Southwest 2024 — Jay Dixit, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/2024-03-14_SXSW_Civil-War_4_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-2024-03-14_SXSW_Civil-War_4_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cailee Spaeny at the world premiere of Civil War at South by Southwest 2024](https://film.one/media/person/681/gallery-774d64dd2ffa.jpg) Cailee Spaeny at the world premiere of Civil War at South by Southwest 2024 — Jay Dixit, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/2024-03-14_SXSW_Civil-War_4.jpg/1280px-2024-03-14_SXSW_Civil-War_4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cailee Spaeny](https://film.one/media/person/681/gallery-da6b28622d98.jpg) Cailee Spaeny — Image via TMDB
- ![Cailee Spaeny](https://film.one/media/person/681/gallery-1b64756aeae7.jpg) Cailee Spaeny — Image via TMDB
- ![Cailee Spaeny](https://film.one/media/person/681/gallery-e317963b9c55.jpg) Cailee Spaeny — Image via TMDB
- ![Cailee Spaeny at the world premiere of Civil War at South by Southwest 2024](https://film.one/media/person/681/gallery-45fec9fba96a.jpg) Cailee Spaeny at the world premiere of Civil War at South by Southwest 2024 — Jay Dixit, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/2024-03-14_SXSW_Civil-War_5.jpg/1280px-2024-03-14_SXSW_Civil-War_5.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cailee Spaeny at the world premiere of Civil War at South by Southwest 2024](https://film.one/media/person/681/gallery-22bd3d7c8196.jpg) Cailee Spaeny at the world premiere of Civil War at South by Southwest 2024 — Jay Dixit, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/2024-03-14_SXSW_Civil-War_12.jpg/1280px-2024-03-14_SXSW_Civil-War_12.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cailee Spaeny](https://film.one/media/person/681/gallery-3ca94323d82c.jpg) Cailee Spaeny — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Volpi Cup for Best Actress 2023: Volpi Cup for Best Actress (won), for *Priscilla*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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