---
name: "Marisa Abela"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marisa-abela"
fi1m_id: "marisa-abela"
imdb_id: "nm3312312"
tmdb_id: 2673762
wikidata_id: "Q104832420"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 December 1996"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T15:13:08.710865+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."
---

# Marisa Abela

## Identity

Marisa Abela

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marisa-abela
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marisa-abela
- **IMDb ID:** nm3312312
- **TMDB ID:** 2673762
- **Wikidata ID:** Q104832420
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisa_Abela, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104832420, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3312312/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2673762

Actor. Born 7 December 1996 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 December 1996, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Also known as:** Маріса Абела, Marisa Gabrielle Abela, ماریسا آبلا
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 68 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Fantasy 1, History 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,542m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisa_Abela, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104832420, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3312312/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2673762

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Black Bag*](https://film.one/film/black-bag.md) (78)
- **HBO Max:** [*Industry*](https://film.one/tv/industry.md) (76)

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

## Fi1m on Marisa Abela

> Marisa Abela makes social confidence look like something her characters have to keep working at. We rate her most when charm has an edge: she can make a compliment sound like a challenge, and keep us interested without asking for approval.

At the dinner table in *Black Bag* (2025), Marisa Abela's Clarissa Dubose says whatever comes into her head. She is the youngest there, a satellite-feed watcher among spies, and Abela makes that lack of caution funny. Tom Burke gives her an older boyfriend who drinks too much; she gives Steven Soderbergh's ensemble a welcome impatience with polite conversation. It is a good use of an actor whose characters need not behave well to hold our attention.

*Industry* (2020) gives that quality more room through Yasmin Kara-Hanani, one of the young bankers whose ambition makes the working day so uncomfortable. Abela and Myha'la, as Harper Stern, reward creators and writers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay for leaving their characters complicated. Abela does not ask us to like Yasmin before following her. The programme's sex and excess can distract from the office politics, but her performance helps keep us watching.

The lead in *Back to Black* (2024) brought a different burden: playing Amy Winehouse without making recognition the whole point. Abela has the walk and the sideways look, and turns a compliment into something close to a challenge. We were won over when she stood in a small club and quietened the crowd, because we believed in her ability to hold them there. By then, checking her against the familiar footage had stopped being interesting.

Her singing is her own, though it lacks the low, heavy pull of Winehouse's records. Sam Taylor-Johnson and writer Matt Greenhalgh give her a love story too soft on its characters, and her performance cannot correct that. We rated the film poorly, not the performance. Abela makes Amy convincing enough that the film's gentleness becomes more frustrating.

For a first look, choose *Black Bag*: Soderbergh gives her room to be sharp and funny without having to carry the film. Then try *Industry* for the longer acquaintance. We would welcome another leading role, preferably in a film willing to be harder on its characters.

## Biography

Marisa Abela is a British actress. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2019 and first appeared on screen as a child in the 2008 thriller *Man in a Box*.

Abela is known for her role as Yasmin Kara-Hanani in the BBC Two and HBO series *Industry* (2020–), for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. She played Amy Winehouse in the 2024 biographical film *Back to Black*, appeared in *Barbie* (2023) and *Rogue Agent* (2022), and portrayed Clarissa Dubose in *Black Bag* (2025). She also had a role in the series *COBRA* (2020). Abela was named a 2023 Screen International Star of Tomorrow.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Black Bag* (2025), Fi1m 78, as Clarissa Dubose — [page](https://film.one/film/black-bag.md)
- *Back to Black* (2024), Fi1m 48, as Amy — [page](https://film.one/film/back-to-black.md)
- *Barbie* (2023), Fi1m 76, as Teen Talk Barbie — [page](https://film.one/film/barbie.md)
- *Industry* (2020), Fi1m 76, as Yasmin Kara-Hanani — [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Black Bag* (2025), as Clarissa Dubose — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/black-bag.md)
- *Back to Black* (2024), as Amy — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/back-to-black.md)
- *Barbie* (2023), as Teen Talk Barbie — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/barbie.md)
- *She Is Love* (2023), as Louise
- *Rogue Agent* (2022), as Sophie Jones
- *Five Dates* (2020), as Maya
- *Industry* (2020), series, as Yasmin Kara-Hanani — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md)
- *COBRA* (2020), series, as Ellie Sutherland
- *Highlander*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Marisa Abela](https://film.one/media/person/8646/gallery-dc53b71cece0.jpg) Marisa Abela — JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Marisa_Abela_at_BAFTA_2026_%28cropped_2%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Exclusive Interview with the Cast of "Back to Black": Exploring Amy Winehouse's Legacy! This interview is with the director Sam Taylor-Johnson and Actress Maris (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/8646/gallery-8d08627fdf23.png) Exclusive Interview with the Cast of "Back to Black": Exploring Amy Winehouse's Legacy! This interview is with the director Sam Taylor-Johnson and Actress Maris (2024) — Zach Pope, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Marisa_Abela_%28cropped%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Exclusive Interview with the Cast of "Back to Black": Exploring Amy Winehouse's Legacy! This interview is with the director Sam Taylor-Johnson and Actress Maris (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/8646/gallery-57315776a79d.png) Exclusive Interview with the Cast of "Back to Black": Exploring Amy Winehouse's Legacy! This interview is with the director Sam Taylor-Johnson and Actress Maris (2024) — Zach Pope, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Marisa_Abela_Back_to_Black_interview.png/1280px-Marisa_Abela_Back_to_Black_interview.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Exclusive Interview with the Cast of "Back to Black": Exploring Amy Winehouse's Legacy! This interview is with the director Sam Taylor-Johnson and Actress Maris (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/8646/gallery-c6fd236cdf44.png) Exclusive Interview with the Cast of "Back to Black": Exploring Amy Winehouse's Legacy! This interview is with the director Sam Taylor-Johnson and Actress Maris (2024) — Zach Pope, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Marisa_Abela_Back_to_Black_interview_%28cropped%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Marisa Abela](https://film.one/media/person/8646/gallery-407a869fb5fb.jpg) Marisa Abela — Image via TMDB
- ![Marisa Abela](https://film.one/media/person/8646/gallery-fa78ac0f88cf.jpg) Marisa Abela — Image via TMDB
- ![Marisa Abela](https://film.one/media/person/8646/gallery-d356a056fcbd.jpg) Marisa Abela — Image via TMDB
- ![Exclusive Interview with the Cast of "Back to Black": Exploring Amy Winehouse's Legacy! This interview is with the director Sam Taylor-Johnson and Actress Maris (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/8646/gallery-b1a40bf1a1fa.png) Exclusive Interview with the Cast of "Back to Black": Exploring Amy Winehouse's Legacy! This interview is with the director Sam Taylor-Johnson and Actress Maris (2024) — Zach Pope, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Marisa_Abela_Back_to_Black_interview_%28cropped2%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Marisa Abela who presented a BAFTA TVA ward, May 26 (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/8646/gallery-4977fe245c22.jpg) Marisa Abela who presented a BAFTA TVA ward, May 26 (2026) — JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Marisa_Abela_at_BAFTA_2026.jpg/1280px-Marisa_Abela_at_BAFTA_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marisa Abela](https://film.one/media/person/8646/gallery-967b1794a220.jpg) Marisa Abela — Image via TMDB

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