--- name: "Frankie Corio" canonical: "https://film.one/person/frankie-corio" fi1m_id: "frankie-corio" imdb_id: "nm13592008" tmdb_id: 3515419 wikidata_id: "Q114979344" roles: ["Actor"] born: "7 July 2010" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-30T21:32:50.801495+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." --- # Frankie Corio ## Identity Frankie Corio - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frankie-corio - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** frankie-corio - **IMDb ID:** nm13592008 - **TMDB ID:** 3515419 - **Wikidata ID:** Q114979344 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Corio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114979344, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13592008/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3515419 Actor. Born 7 July 2010 in Livingston, Scotland. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 7 July 2010, Livingston, Scotland - **Also known as:** Francesca Corio - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Corio, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114979344, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13592008/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3515419 ## Coming up - *The Education of Jane Cumming* (2026-12-02), as Miss Cunynghame ## Fi1m on Frankie Corio > On the strength of one film, Frankie Corio is an actor worth watching. As Sophie in *Aftersun* (2022) she does almost nothing you could call acting, and her face carries the whole weight of what the film will not say aloud. A girl sits at a table in a Turkish resort and her father will not get up to sing with her. She goes up alone. In *Aftersun* (2022) Frankie Corio sings the song small and flat to a room of sunburnt strangers, and she does not push a note, and we found it hard to look at, because a child is being braver than her parent and both of them know it. That is the scene most people remember, and rightly, but it is not where the performance lives. It lives in the watching. Charlotte Wells's first film is built on the distance between what Sophie sees of her father Calum (Paul Mescal) on holiday and what she will understand about him later, and Wells does not put that distance into dialogue. She puts it on Corio's face. Sophie watches the older teenagers kissing in the pool; she watches a boy her own age across an arcade pool table; she watches her father when he thinks she is not. Corio was cast at ten from an open call of around 800 Scottish children, with no experience and, by her own account, no wish for any: "I had not been trying to get into acting". It shows, in the best way. There is none of the trained child's habit of reaching for the emotion and holding it up for inspection. She lets Wells's camera come to her. The honest caveat is that this is a body of work with one film in it. Since *Aftersun* she has played Emily in *Bagman* (2024), a supernatural horror, and Eilidh in Morven Christie's short *Stray* (2025), neither of which we have reviewed, so we will not pretend to judge them here. Some have worried aloud that a debut this exact might be the only thing she is remembered for. We understand the worry. A performance that works because a child does not know she is performing is not a technique you can pack and take to the next job; the next job needs a different kind of acting, and we do not yet know whether she has it. What we do know is that opposite Mescal, an adult actor in a part that could have swallowed the film, she made the film hers. Sophie is the one the story is about, and Corio never once asks to be liked for it. If she does nothing else, *Aftersun* stands. If she does more, we would like to see it. ## Biography Frankie Corio, also credited as Francesca Corio, is a Scottish actress. Born on 7 July 2010 in Livingston, West Lothian, she made her screen debut as Sophie in Charlotte Wells's film *Aftersun* (2022), opposite Paul Mescal. Corio was cast at the age of ten from around 800 applicants after her mother submitted a photograph to a casting agent. The film was shot in Turkey. She has since appeared as Emily in *Bagman* (2024). Corio has received several award nominations for her performance in *Aftersun*, including for the Critics' Choice Movie Awards and the British Independent Film Awards. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Aftersun* (2022), Fi1m 85, as Sophie — [page](https://film.one/film/aftersun.md) ## Complete filmography (4) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Education of Jane Cumming* (2026), as Miss Cunynghame - *Stray* (2025), Actor - *Bagman* (2024), as Emily - *Aftersun* (2022), as Sophie — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/aftersun.md) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/frankie-corio