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name: "Emily Beecham"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emily-beecham"
fi1m_id: "emily-beecham"
imdb_id: "nm2387806"
tmdb_id: 130414
wikidata_id: "Q518960"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 May 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-07T16:33:04.324209+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."
---

# Emily Beecham

## Identity

Emily Beecham

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emily-beecham
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** emily-beecham
- **IMDb ID:** nm2387806
- **TMDB ID:** 130414
- **Wikidata ID:** Q518960
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Beecham, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q518960, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2387806/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130414

Actor. Born 12 May 1984 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 May 1984, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
- **Active:** 2006–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Craig Gillespie](https://film.one/person/craig-gillespie.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 7 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 70 (3), 2010s 75 (2), 2020s 61 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 65 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 6 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 5 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 2, Science Fiction 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $496m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Beecham, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q518960, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2387806/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130414

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Village*](https://film.one/tv/the-village-2013.md) (78)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*28 Weeks Later*](https://film.one/film/28-weeks-later.md) (72)
- **Disney+:** [*Cruella*](https://film.one/film/cruella.md) (66)
- **Hulu:** [*Supergirl*](https://film.one/film/supergirl.md) (56)

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

## Fi1m on Emily Beecham

> Emily Beecham does control first and cracks second: a clever, composed woman holding level until the film stops letting her. It has made her a fixture of nervy genre pieces, and often the steadiest thing in them.

In *Supergirl* (2026) Emily Beecham has a handful of scenes as Alura In-Ze, Kara's mother, on a world that is ending. She plays them opposite David Krumholtz, and between them they do something the rest of the film cannot manage: the second of those scenes left us with a lump in the throat we had not budgeted for. Then the film cut back to a fight in the dark and the feeling had nowhere to go. That is the Beecham pattern in miniature. She is asked to do the quiet, difficult thing, does it, and is handed back to a picture with louder business elsewhere.

She trained at LAMDA and spent the better part of a decade in British television and small features before *Into the Badlands* (2015–2019) made her a regular as The Widow, a part that asked for martial-arts action as much as acting and got both. That series is why she gets cast in genre at all. Then came *Little Joe* (2019) for Jessica Hausner, in which she played Alice, an ambitious, cerebral woman under pressure who stops trusting her own judgement. The film divided critics and her work in it did not, which has been the shape of her notices ever since.

What she does, and does better than most, is hold still. She keeps a face level and a voice even for longer than seems wise, so that when the unease arrives it looks like something happening to her rather than something she has decided to show us. Talking about *Little Joe*, she put it plainly: "What I was focusing on when I shot it was the paranoia element." It is a small toolkit and she uses it exactly. It also explains why writers keep putting her in science fiction and horror with a psychological edge, in *1899* (2022) as Maura Franklin, and now on a dying planet in a superhero film.

The supporting work is harder to read. *Cruella* (2021) and *The Covenant* (2023) are ensemble pictures and she is one voice among many in each; we would not pretend to know them as well as we know her Alura. What we can say, on the evidence we have, is that she has not yet been the problem with a film she is in, and that the problem has more often been a film that did not know what it had. Peter Mackie Burns has directed her twice, which suggests at least one director does.

Someone should give her a whole film again and keep the camera on her when it gets uncomfortable. Hausner did it once. Until it happens again there are those few scenes in *Supergirl* to click through to, and they are worth more than the fight that follows them.

## Biography

Emily Beecham is an English actress. She was born on 12 May 1984 in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 2006.

She is known for roles in the films *Hail, Caesar!* (2016), *Little Joe* (2019), for which she received the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, *Cruella* (2021) and *Guy Ritchie's The Covenant* (2023), and the series *Into the Badlands* and *1899* (2022). She plays Alura In-Ze in the film *Supergirl* (2026).

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

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Supergirl* (2026), Fi1m 56, as Alura In-Ze — [page](https://film.one/film/supergirl.md)
- *Cruella* (2021), Fi1m 66, as Catherine / Maid — [page](https://film.one/film/cruella.md)
- *Hail, Caesar!* (2016), Fi1m 72, as Dierdre — [page](https://film.one/film/hail-caesar.md)
- *The Village* (2013), Fi1m 78, as Caro Allingham — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-village-2013.md)
- *28 Weeks Later* (2007), Fi1m 72, as Karen — [page](https://film.one/film/28-weeks-later.md)
- *Party Animals* (2007), Fi1m 63, Actor — [page](https://film.one/tv/party-animals.md)
- *The Street* (2006), Fi1m 74, as Gemma — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-street.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

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

- *Amaretti* (2026), as Lola
- *Grief Room* (2026), Actor
- *Supergirl* (2026), as Alura In-Ze — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/supergirl.md)
- *King & Conqueror* (2025), series, as Edith Swanneck
- *My Mother's Wedding* (2025), as Georgina
- *William Tell* (2025), as Gertrude
- *The Old Man and the Land* (2024), as Laura (voice)
- *Slingshot* (2024), as Zoe Morgan
- *Stockholm Bloodbath* (2024), as Kristina Gyllenstierna
- *Guy Ritchie's The Covenant* (2023), as Caroline Kinley
- *1899* (2022), series, as Maura Franklin
- *Cruella* (2021), as Catherine / Maid — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/cruella.md)
- *The Pursuit of Love* (2021), series, as Fanny Logan
- *Tortoise* (2021), as Anna
- *Outside the Wire* (2021), as Sofiya
- *Sulphur & White* (2020), as Vanessa
- *Berlin, I Love You* (2019), as Hannah
- *The Octopus Nest* (2019), as Claire
- *Little Joe* (2019), as Alice
- *Interdependence* (2019), as Scavenger (segment "Kingdom")
- *Kingdom* (2019), as Scavenger
- *Daphne* (2017), as Daphne
- *Hail, Caesar!* (2016), as Dierdre — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/hail-caesar.md)
- *Into the Badlands* (2015), series, as The Widow
- *The Musketeers* (2014), series, as Adèle Bessett
- *The Thirteenth Tale* (2013), as Isabelle March
- *The Village* (2013), series, as Caro Allingham — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-village-2013.md)
- *Blandings* (2013), series, as Miss Younghusband
- *Case Sensitive* (2011), series, as Mary Trelease
- *Basement* (2010), as Pru
- *Pulse* (2010), as Stella Hamilton
- *The Calling* (2010), as Joanna
- *Unforgiven* (2009), series, as Lucy Belcombe
- *Merlin* (2008), series, as Enmyria
- *Tess of the D'Urbervilles* (2008), series, as Retty Priddle
- *Rise of the Footsoldier* (2007), as Kelly
- *Damages* (2007), series, as Rutger's Daughter — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/damages.md)
- *28 Weeks Later* (2007), as Karen — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/28-weeks-later.md)
- *Lewis* (2007), series, as Nell Buckley
- *Party Animals* (2007), series, Actor — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/party-animals.md)
- *Bon Voyage* (2006), series, as Rachel Aldred
- *The Street* (2006), series, as Gemma — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-street.md)
- *Agatha Christie's Marple* (2004), series, as Elvira Blake
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, as Anna Flannery
- *The Queen of Fashion*, as Lucy Birley
- *An Odd Enchantment*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Emily Beecham](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-e589c3a86d16.jpg) Emily Beecham — Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Malaga_Film_Festival_2025_-_Emily_Beecham_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Malaga_Film_Festival_2025_-_Emily_Beecham_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns PremiereWorld premiereCountryUnited KingdomYear2017MediumDCPLength90LanguageEnglishProducerValentina Brazzini, Tristan GoligherProd](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-02cd6b32bd91.jpg) Filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns PremiereWorld premiereCountryUnited KingdomYear2017MediumDCPLength90LanguageEnglishProducerValentina Brazzini, Tristan GoligherProd — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Daphne_-_Emily_Beecham-_IFFR_2017-1.jpg/1280px-Daphne_-_Emily_Beecham-_IFFR_2017-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns PremiereWorld premiereCountryUnited KingdomYear2017MediumDCPLength90LanguageEnglishProducerValentina Brazzini, Tristan GoligherProd](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-99224915eb62.jpg) Filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns PremiereWorld premiereCountryUnited KingdomYear2017MediumDCPLength90LanguageEnglishProducerValentina Brazzini, Tristan GoligherProd — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Daphne_-_IFFR_2017-1.jpg/1280px-Daphne_-_IFFR_2017-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns PremiereWorld premiereCountryUnited KingdomYear2017MediumDCPLength90LanguageEnglishProducerValentina Brazzini, Tristan GoligherProd](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-b54098ca1bd7.jpg) Filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns PremiereWorld premiereCountryUnited KingdomYear2017MediumDCPLength90LanguageEnglishProducerValentina Brazzini, Tristan GoligherProd — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Daphne_-_IFFR_2017-2.jpg/1280px-Daphne_-_IFFR_2017-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emily Beecham](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-ffd9d080d452.jpg) Emily Beecham — Image via TMDB
- ![Emily Beecham](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-1783ff85d36a.jpg) Emily Beecham — Image via TMDB
- ![Emily Beecham](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-209c1be78469.jpg) Emily Beecham — Image via TMDB
- ![Filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns PremiereWorld premiereCountryUnited KingdomYear2017MediumDCPLength90LanguageEnglishProducerValentina Brazzini, Tristan GoligherProd](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-a05d5a935132.jpg) Filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns PremiereWorld premiereCountryUnited KingdomYear2017MediumDCPLength90LanguageEnglishProducerValentina Brazzini, Tristan GoligherProd — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Daphne_-_IFFR_2017-4.jpg/1280px-Daphne_-_IFFR_2017-4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns PremiereWorld premiereCountryUnited KingdomYear2017MediumDCPLength90LanguageEnglishProducerValentina Brazzini, Tristan GoligherProd](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-2d7aeb7a70dc.jpg) Filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns PremiereWorld premiereCountryUnited KingdomYear2017MediumDCPLength90LanguageEnglishProducerValentina Brazzini, Tristan GoligherProd — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Daphne_-_IFFR_2017-5.jpg/1280px-Daphne_-_IFFR_2017-5.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emily Beecham](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-7393833611a9.jpg) Emily Beecham — Image via TMDB
- ![Emily Beecham](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-267c1ccb80ac.jpg) Emily Beecham — Image via TMDB
- ![Emily Beecham](https://film.one/media/person/6580/gallery-d7dea43a012f.jpg) Emily Beecham — Image via TMDB

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