--- name: "Emily Cox" canonical: "https://film.one/person/emily-cox" fi1m_id: "emily-cox" imdb_id: "nm2686957" tmdb_id: 144344 wikidata_id: "Q1337589" roles: ["Actor"] born: "23 February 1985" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-24T22:02:56.640168+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 Cox ## Identity Emily Cox - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emily-cox - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** emily-cox - **IMDb ID:** nm2686957 - **TMDB ID:** 144344 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1337589 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1337589, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2686957/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/144344 Actor. Born 23 February 1985 in Vienna, Austria. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 23 February 1985, Vienna, Austria - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1337589, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2686957/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/144344 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*The Last Kingdom*](https://film.one/tv/the-last-kingdom.md) (72) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Emily Cox > Emily Cox plays women who say the thing everyone else is thinking and then pick up a weapon. As Brida in *The Last Kingdom* she let the years show on her face, the one person in the cast who visibly changed. Brida spends most of *The Last Kingdom* telling Uhtred he is wrong, and she is usually right. Emily Cox plays her with nothing softened: hair scraped back, clothes cut for fighting rather than for the camera, a stare that arrives a beat before the insult. She is fierce, funny and unforgiving, and her arguments with Alexander Dreymon's Uhtred about which side they belong to are the best-written stretches of the series. The plot, as we said at the time, goes round in circles. She is the one person in it who visibly changes. That was the part that took her out of German-language television, where she had been working since training at Vienna's Max Reinhardt Seminar and starting on stage at the Theater in der Josefstadt. Before it there was Marie Kreutzer's *The Fatherless* (2011), a zombie film called *Rammbock: Berlin Undead* (2010) and, later, improvised comedy alongside Christian Ulmen in *jerks.* (2017–2020). Then Brida, across all five series from 2015 to 2022 and into the closing film *The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die* (2023). Since then she has taken English-language series work in *Constellation* (2024) and a lead in the German dark comedy *Murder Mindfully* (2024), while still moving between Berlin and Vienna. Uhtred is wronged, fights, and is wronged again, and Dreymon finds a weariness in him eventually. Brida gets there first and goes further: she is plainly a different woman in the fifth series from the girl in the first, and Cox carries the years in how she stands and how little she smiles. We were moved, more than we expected, by how the losses pile up on these two across the run and by how Cox lets each one stay on Brida rather than shaking it off between episodes. The fighting is real, and it is never the point. The sword is what Brida holds while she says the thing nobody wants said. The scripts did not always keep up. In the first series Brida is written thinner than she is played, and by the last the show pushes her somewhere extreme that split its audience; we will not describe it, except to say it asks a great deal of Cox and she does not blink. Cox once said she liked to think of Brida as the first feminist, which is a large claim, but watching her you can see what she means. She has done comedy, in *jerks.* and now *Murder Mindfully*, and the stillness is there too when a director wants it. If Brida is the only thing you have seen her in, the comedy is the place to look next, if only to watch her hold a scene without anything sharp in her hand. ## Biography Emily Cox is an Austrian actress of Irish-British heritage. She was born on 23 February 1985 in Vienna, where she grew up. Her parents, both pianists, had moved to the city on a musicians' grant; they later divorced. After graduating from high school in 2003, Cox developed an interest in acting through a school play and studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. In 2008 she held a contract as a stage actor at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. Cox moved to Berlin in 2011 and has since appeared in numerous German and Austrian television productions, including several Tatort films. She is best known internationally for her role as Brida in the series *The Last Kingdom* (2015–2022) and the film *The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die* (2023). Other credits include *Homeland* (2011), *Jerks.* (2017–2020), *Rammbock: Berlin Undead* (2010), *Futuro Beach* (2014) and *Constellation* (2024). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Last Kingdom* (2015), Fi1m 72, as Brida — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-kingdom.md) ## Complete filmography (51) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Der Thüringenkrimi - Gerechtigkeit* (2026), as Mala Murphy - *The Physician II* (2025), as Mercia - *Murder Mindfully* (2024), series, as Katharina Diemel - *Constellation* (2024), series, as Sara Schiller - *Unschuldig - Der Fall Julia B.* (2023), as Julia Brandt - *Unsichtbarer Angreifer* (2023), as Emma Turgut - *37 Sekunden* (2023), series, as Clara Andersen - *Alma and Oskar* (2023), as Alma Mahler - *Kleine Eheverbrechen* (2023), as Lisa Sobiri - *The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die* (2023), as Brida - *Steirerstern* (2022), as Jana Skoff - *The Salvation Of The World As We Know It* (2021), as Katharina - *Hartwig Seeler – Ein neues Leben* (2021), as Tascha - *Blind ermittelt: Zerstörte Träume* (2020), as Therese Maxeiner - *Danowski - Blutapfel* (2019), as Meta Jurkschat - *The Accidental Rebel* (2019), as Lilly - *Head Full of Honey* (2018), as Nursing Home Manager - *Wuff* (2018), as Ella - *What Have We Done to Deserve This?* (2018), as Therapist - *Nichts zu verlieren* (2018), as Miriam - *Labaule & Erben* (2018), series, Actor - *Jesus Cries* (2015), as Magdalena - *The Last Kingdom* (2015), series, as Brida — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-kingdom.md) - *Shades of Guilt* (2015), series, as Ulrike Gronau - *Die Freischwimmerin* (2014), as Martha Müller - *Zorn* (2014), series, as Frieda Borck (Folge 1) - *Futuro Beach* (2014), as Nanna - *Paul Kemp - Alles kein Problem* (2013), series, as Manuela - *CopStories* (2013), series, as Sonja Omminger - *Stille* (2013), as Mel - *The Dead and the Living* (2012), as Agnes, junge Frau in Auschwitz - *A Royal Affair* (2012), as Caroline Mathilde - *Born to Dance* (2011), as Milena 'Milli' Neubert - *Homeland* (2011), series, as Claudia — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/homeland.md) - *How to Live Your Life* (2011), as Laura - *The Fatherless* (2011), as Mizzi - *Molly & Mops - Ein Mops kommt selten allein* (2011), as Kellnerin - *Rammbock: Berlin Undead* (2010), as Anita - *Der Täter* (2010), as Jakobs Tochter Mascha - *Killerjagd - Schrei wenn du dich traust* (2010), as Maja Hönow - *SOKO Stuttgart* (2009), series, as Lucie Thieme - *Dutschke* (2009), as Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz - *Schnell ermittelt* (2009), series, as Diana Weininger - *Vienna Crime Squad* (2005), series, as Judith Stoll - *Kommissarin Lucas* (2003), series, as Jeanette Wilson - *Murder in the Mountains* (2001), series, as Gina Prinz - *SOKO Leipzig* (2001), series, as Hannah Falck - *A Case For Two* (1981), series, as Edith Egger - *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as Heike - *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Miranda Kador, Roswita Mader, Sybille Wildering - *The Vicar's Wife*, as Deirdre Lawless ## Gallery - ![Emily Cox](https://film.one/media/person/3844063/gallery-c9ff9eeb3599.jpg) Emily Cox — Image via TMDB - ![Emily Cox](https://film.one/media/person/3844063/gallery-6e112d148cf0.jpg) Emily Cox — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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