--- name: "Eliza Scanlen" canonical: "https://film.one/person/eliza-scanlen" fi1m_id: "eliza-scanlen" imdb_id: "nm7340546" tmdb_id: 1669125 wikidata_id: "Q29122309" roles: ["Actor"] born: "6 January 1999" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 83 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-03T01:05:11.291790+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." --- # Eliza Scanlen ## Identity Eliza Scanlen - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eliza-scanlen - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** eliza-scanlen - **IMDb ID:** nm7340546 - **TMDB ID:** 1669125 - **Wikidata ID:** Q29122309 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Scanlen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29122309, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7340546/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1669125 Actor. Born 6 January 1999 in Sydney, Australia. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 6 January 1999, Sydney, Australia - **Active:** 2018–present - **Also known as:** Eliza Jane Scanlen - **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (2), 2020s 82 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 83 to 81 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 2, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Mystery 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $333m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Scanlen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29122309, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7340546/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1669125 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Sharp Objects*](https://film.one/tv/sharp-objects.md) (84) - **Hulu:** [*Little Women*](https://film.one/film/little-women.md) (83) - **AMC+:** [*Babyteeth*](https://film.one/film/babyteeth.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Eliza Scanlen > Scanlen plays girls who are two things at once, the child at the dinner table and the person behind her eyes, and she makes the switch look like a habit. In *Sharp Objects* and *Little Women* she does it beside much bigger names and is not overshadowed. In *Sharp Objects* (2018) Amma Crellin roller-skates through Wind Gap in shorts and then comes to dinner in a pinafore, and the point of Eliza Scanlen's performance is that neither outfit is the disguise. Amma is Camille's teenage half-sister, the daughter still in the house, and the house belongs to Patricia Clarkson's Adora, who runs it at a whisper. Scanlen has to be loud enough to register in that room and quiet enough to belong to it, and she manages both without ever seeming to try. It is the series' third performance, behind Amy Adams and Clarkson, and it is the one that tells you a career is starting. It started, as Australian careers often do, in a soap: a recurring part as Tabitha Ford in *Home and Away* (2016) while she was still at school. *Sharp Objects* brought her the international attention two years later, and the films came quickly after it. She had already shot *Babyteeth* (2020), a lead for which she shaved her head, before Greta Gerwig cast her as Beth March in *Little Women* (2019). Since then the work has been supporting parts in *The Devil All the Time* (2020), *Old* (2021), *The Starling Girl* (2023) and *Caddo Lake* (2024), television in *The First Lady* (2022), *Mayfair Witches* (2023) and *Dope Girls* (2025), and a stage debut in *Lord of the Flies* (2019). Beth is the part we would send a stranger to. Gerwig cuts the novel into two timelines and shows us the adult Beth unwell at home before she shows us the child, so Scanlen is playing a girl who does not know what the audience knows. That is hard to do without pleading, and she never pleads. Her scene at the piano with Chris Cooper's Mr Laurence moved us more than a scene about a piano has any right to, and it is her stillness that does it: she receives the kindness as though she has been caught out by it. We said at the time we would not change a frame, and we would not. The reservation is about the parts, not the acting. She has been cast again and again as the troubled or intense teenager, in stories about growing up, and she is good enough at it that the industry has had no reason to stop. She has said so herself: "I'm at this weird age, too, where I'm 26 now but I'm still getting jobs for 17-year-old girls who have never kissed someone." What we have seen from her in leads, in *The Starling Girl* especially, suggests the grounded, unhurried work will carry into adulthood; what we have not yet seen is a director ask her to be forty. The next interesting thing she does will be the first part in which nobody is a schoolgirl. ## Biography Eliza Jane Scanlen (born 6 January 1999) is an Australian actress. She began her career with a recurring role as Tabitha Ford in the soap opera Home and Away (2016). Scanlen received acclaim for her performance as Amma Crellin in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018). Her film roles include Milla in Babyteeth (2020) and Beth March in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019). She has also appeared in The Devil All the Time (2020), Old (2021), The First Lady (2022) as young Eleanor Roosevelt, The Starling Girl (2023), Caddo Lake (2024) and the series Mayfair Witches (2023) and Dope Girls (2025). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Babyteeth* (2020), Fi1m 82, as Milla — [page](https://film.one/film/babyteeth.md) - *Little Women* (2019), Fi1m 83, as Beth March — [page](https://film.one/film/little-women.md) - *Sharp Objects* (2018), Fi1m 84, as Amma Crellin — [page](https://film.one/tv/sharp-objects.md) ## Complete filmography (24) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Dope Girls* (2025), series, as Violet Davies - *National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest* (2025), as Cecily Cardew - *Caddo Lake* (2024), as Ellie - *Body of Water* (2024), Director of Photography, Writer, Editor, Director - *How Can I Help You* (2023), Director, Writer - *The Starling Girl* (2023), as Jem Starling - *Mayfair Witches* (2023), series, as Jessica - *The First Lady* (2022), series, as Young Eleanor Roosevelt - *Fires* (2021), series, as Natasha 'Tash' Jasic - *Old* (2021), as Kara Aged 15 - *The Devil All the Time* (2020), as Lenora Laferty - *Babyteeth* (2020), as Milla — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/babyteeth.md) - *Mukbang* (2020), Writer, Director - *Little Women* (2019), as Beth March — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/little-women.md) - *Love and Other Places* (2018), as Claude - *Sharp Objects* (2018), series, as Amma Crellin — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/sharp-objects.md) - *Grace* (2017), as Grace - *Lacuna* (2016), as Zoe - *Home and Away* (1988), series, as Tabitha - *Fear Is the Rider*, Actor - *All That I Am*, Actor - *Margin of Error*, Director, Writer - *Let It Come Down*, Actor - *Unspeakable*, as Lil ## Gallery - ![Eliza Scanlen](https://film.one/media/person/130542/gallery-6aaf3a0d71b0.jpg) Eliza Scanlen — Pietro Luca Cassarino, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Eliza_Scanlen.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Eliza Scanlen](https://film.one/media/person/130542/gallery-e2ebfc1013a9.jpg) Eliza Scanlen — Image via TMDB - ![Eliza Scanlen](https://film.one/media/person/130542/gallery-d5426e117ade.jpg) Eliza Scanlen — Image via TMDB - ![Eliza Scanlen](https://film.one/media/person/130542/gallery-f805aef5d1f0.jpg) Eliza Scanlen — Image via TMDB - ![Eliza Scanlen](https://film.one/media/person/130542/gallery-335181e2fbcc.jpg) Eliza Scanlen — Image via TMDB - ![Eliza Scanlen](https://film.one/media/person/130542/gallery-154e1467f419.jpg) Eliza Scanlen — Image via TMDB - ![Eliza Scanlen](https://film.one/media/person/130542/gallery-280a2f71b9a7.jpg) Eliza Scanlen — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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