--- name: "Naomi Ackie" canonical: "https://film.one/person/naomi-ackie" fi1m_id: "naomi-ackie" imdb_id: "nm7609875" tmdb_id: 1537686 wikidata_id: "Q47456743" roles: ["Actor"] born: "22 August 1991" reviewed_on_fi1m: 11 average_fi1m_score: 70 average_as: "actor" average_over: 11 updated: "2026-10-22T02:51:12.780122+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." --- # Naomi Ackie ## Identity Naomi Ackie - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/naomi-ackie - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** naomi-ackie - **IMDb ID:** nm7609875 - **TMDB ID:** 1537686 - **Wikidata ID:** Q47456743 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Ackie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47456743, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7609875/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1537686 Actor. Born 22 August 1991 in Walthamstow, London, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 22 August 1991, Walthamstow, London, England, UK - **Active:** 2015–present - **Also known as:** Naomi Sarah Ackie - **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 11 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 73 (5), 2020s 67 (6) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 71 across 10 titles - **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 2 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 6 of 10 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Comedy 6, Drama 5, Science Fiction 4, Crime 3, Adventure 2, Horror 2 - **Screen time:** 17 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,271m across 6 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Ackie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47456743, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7609875/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1537686 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*The End of the F***ing World*](https://film.one/tv/the-end-of-the-f-ing-world.md) (80), [*Master of None*](https://film.one/tv/master-of-none.md) (80), [*The Thursday Murder Club*](https://film.one/film/the-thursday-murder-club.md) (57) - **HBO Max:** [*Sorry, Baby*](https://film.one/film/sorry-baby.md) (81), [*Mickey 17*](https://film.one/film/mickey-17.md) (70) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Lady Macbeth*](https://film.one/film/lady-macbeth.md) (80) - **Disney+:** [*Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker*](https://film.one/film/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker.md) (50) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Naomi Ackie > Naomi Ackie watches before she speaks, and her people take a whole room in before they give anything back. She has been more interesting than several of the films around her, and the heart of one, *Mickey 17*, that came close to deserving her. Nasha, the security officer in Bong Joon Ho's *Mickey 17* (2025), loves a man the ship treats as disposable and says so, without reservation. She also gets one furious speech to power, and it is the best written scene in the film. Naomi Ackie plays both the same way: she has been watching everybody and now she is going to say the thing. That is her habit. In *Blink Twice* (2024) Frida has watched Slater on her phone for years before she meets him, and on his island she keeps watching, trying to work out whether she is being flattered or handled. Ackie is at her best in that uncertainty, before the answer arrives. The habit was there early. Her breakthrough was Anna, the nearly silent housemaid in *Lady Macbeth* (2016), and it fixed what critics have noticed ever since: the feeling is held under the surface and arrives late. *Yardie* (2018) and *Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker* (2019), as Jannah, followed. The second series of *The End of the F***ing World* (2019) gave her Bonnie, a stranger with a grievance whose business with James and Alyssa we will not describe; she was excellent, in a sequel to a story that had already finished. In 2022 she played Whitney Houston in *I Wanna Dance with Somebody*, and most critics thought better of her than of the film around her. That has become the pattern. Scripts take the watching and forget to give her anything to do with it. Zoë Kravitz's *Blink Twice* is more interested in Slater than in Frida, so Frida has no life we see outside her wanting him, and when the story asks us to care what she chooses we are taking her on Ackie's face. The face is good. It is not a script. Chris Columbus's *The Thursday Murder Club* (2025) offers less: PC Donna De Freitas turns up to talk about window locks, is quietly adopted by the retirees and put to work behind her DCI's back, and is handed a murder nobody in the film minds about. Ackie does what the part allows, which is not much. Bong is the one director so far who has matched her. Nasha's speech moved us more than a film with a man-printer had any business managing, and it did so because Ackie says it as a woman who has spent two hours being kind to someone the plot keeps killing and has finally had enough of being polite about it. Mark Ruffalo shouts through the rest of the picture. She does not need to. She has said, "I love Big Themes. Films that ask big questions about technology, society, mortality." The films asking them have not always known what to do with her while they think. *Mickey 17* did, because it let her be in love first and angry second. *Sorry, Baby* (2025) and *Clayface* (2026) are next. What we want to see is a film that is about the woman doing the watching. ## Biography Naomi Sarah Ackie is an English actress. She was born on 22 August 1991 in Walthamstow, London. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 2012. Ackie’s breakthrough came with the film *Lady Macbeth* (2016). She appeared in *The End of the F***ing World* (2019), for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress, and in *Master of None* (2021). Her other film roles include Jannah in *Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker* (2019), Whitney Houston in *Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody* (2022), Frida in *Blink Twice* (2024), Nasha in *Mickey 17* (2025), and Donna De Freitas in *The Thursday Murder Club* (2025). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (11) - *Clayface* (2026), Fi1m 65, as Caitlyn Corr — [page](https://film.one/film/clayface.md) - *I Love Boosters* (2026), Fi1m 64, as Sade — [page](https://film.one/film/i-love-boosters.md) - *Mickey 17* (2025), Fi1m 70, as Nasha — [page](https://film.one/film/mickey-17.md) - *Sorry, Baby* (2025), Fi1m 81, as Lydie — [page](https://film.one/film/sorry-baby.md) - *The Thursday Murder Club* (2025), Fi1m 57, as Donna De Freitas — [page](https://film.one/film/the-thursday-murder-club.md) - *Blink Twice* (2024), Fi1m 64, as Frida — [page](https://film.one/film/blink-twice.md) - *Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker* (2019), Fi1m 50, as Jannah — [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker.md) - *The End of the F***ing World* (2017), Fi1m 80, as Bonnie — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-end-of-the-f-ing-world.md) - *Damilola, Our Loved Boy* (2016), Fi1m 75, as Council Worker — [page](https://film.one/film/damilola-our-loved-boy.md) - *Lady Macbeth* (2016), Fi1m 80, as Anna — [page](https://film.one/film/lady-macbeth.md) - *Master of None* (2015), Fi1m 80, as Alicia Jackson — [page](https://film.one/tv/master-of-none.md) ## Complete filmography (29) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Clayface* (2026), as Caitlyn Corr — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/clayface.md) - *I Love Boosters* (2026), as Sade — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/i-love-boosters.md) - *Shelter* (2026), as Roberta - *LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy - Pieces of the Past* (2025), series, as Jedi Jannah (voice) - *The Thursday Murder Club* (2025), as Donna De Freitas — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/the-thursday-murder-club.md) - *Sorry, Baby* (2025), as Lydie — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/sorry-baby.md) - *Mickey 17* (2025), as Nasha — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/mickey-17.md) - *2073* (2024), as Professor - *LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy* (2024), series, as Jedi Jannah (voice) - *Blink Twice* (2024), as Frida — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/blink-twice.md) - *Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody* (2022), as Whitney Houston · Executive Producer - *The Score* (2022), as Gloria - *Small Axe* (2020), series, as Hazel — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/small-axe.md) - *Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker* (2019), as Jannah — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker.md) - *The Corrupted* (2019), as Grace - *The Bisexual* (2018), series, as Ruby - *The Arrival* (2018), as Daisy - *Yardie* (2018), as Mona - *The End of the F***ing World* (2017), series, as Bonnie — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-end-of-the-f-ing-world.md) - *Lady Macbeth* (2016), as Anna — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/lady-macbeth.md) - *Damilola, Our Loved Boy* (2016), as Council Worker — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/damilola-our-loved-boy.md) - *The Five* (2016), series, as Gemma Morgan - *Master of None* (2015), series, as Alicia Jackson · Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/master-of-none.md) - *I Used to Be Famous* (2015), as Amber - *Vera* (2011), series, as Louise Everitt — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md) - *Doctor Who* (2005), series, as Jen — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md) - *They Follow*, Actor - *Morning*, Actor - *To Make Ends Meat*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Naomi Ackie](https://film.one/media/person/8070/gallery-67350e8a973f.png) Naomi Ackie — Our Movie Guide, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Naomi_Ackie.png/1280px-Naomi_Ackie.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Naomi Ackie, actress, at SXSW 2026 in Austin, Texas on a panel and special podcast episode of Keke Palmer's podcast called "Baby, This is Keke Palmer Live" for ](https://film.one/media/person/8070/gallery-94380868c9ff.jpg) Naomi Ackie, actress, at SXSW 2026 in Austin, Texas on a panel and special podcast episode of Keke Palmer's podcast called "Baby, This is Keke Palmer Live" for — Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Naomi_Ackie_at_SXSW_2026._02.jpg/1280px-Naomi_Ackie_at_SXSW_2026._02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Naomi Ackie, actress, at SXSW 2026 in Austin, Texas on a panel and special podcast episode of Keke Palmer's podcast called "Baby, This is Keke Palmer Live" for ](https://film.one/media/person/8070/gallery-72059e67d5b5.jpg) Naomi Ackie, actress, at SXSW 2026 in Austin, Texas on a panel and special podcast episode of Keke Palmer's podcast called "Baby, This is Keke Palmer Live" for — Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Naomi_Ackie_at_SXSW_2026.jpg/1280px-Naomi_Ackie_at_SXSW_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Naomi Ackie](https://film.one/media/person/8070/gallery-e5dce20e1f15.jpg) Naomi Ackie — Image via TMDB - ![Naomi Ackie](https://film.one/media/person/8070/gallery-98b70f5bbb14.jpg) Naomi Ackie — Image via TMDB - ![Naomi Ackie](https://film.one/media/person/8070/gallery-00fcb050eaad.jpg) Naomi Ackie — Image via TMDB - ![Naomi Ackie](https://film.one/media/person/8070/gallery-b6d5da5caedc.jpg) Naomi Ackie — Image via TMDB - ![Naomi Ackie](https://film.one/media/person/8070/gallery-5d57e0f7f825.jpg) Naomi Ackie — Image via TMDB - ![Naomi Ackie](https://film.one/media/person/8070/gallery-f17f7886fa13.jpg) Naomi Ackie — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Independent Spirit Awards 2026: Best Supporting Performance (won), for *Sorry, Baby* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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