Chloe Pirrie
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Chloe Pirrie | |
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 Pirrie in Shell (2012) | |
| Born | 1987 (age 38) Scotland |
| Alma mater | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2009–present |
Chloe Pirrie (born 1987) is a Scottish actress. She is known for her performance in the 2012 film Shell, and more recently in the TV series Under the Banner of Heaven (2022) and Dept. Q (2025). Other credits include the TV series The Game (2014), War & Peace (2016), The Living and the Dead (2016), Brief Encounters (2016), The Crown (2017), The Queen's Gambit (2020), Carnival Row (2020–2023), Hanna (2021), and Industry (2024–26); and the films Youth (2015), Blood Cells (2015), Stutterer (2015), and Emma (2020).
Chloe Pirrie was born in Scotland in 1987[1][2] and raised in Stockbridge, Edinburgh.[2] She attended the Mary Erskine School, an independent girls' school in Edinburgh.[2]
She began acting in school and decided to pursue it as a career after being cast in a school production of The Cherry Orchard.[1] Pirrie moved to London at the age of 18 to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama,[2] graduating in 2009.[1]
Career
Pirrie's professional acting career began while she was working as a waitress in a London burger restaurant.[3] She debuted at the Royal National Theatre in a 2010 production of Men Should Weep.[3] Her breakthrough role came in the feature film Shell (2012), a Scottish drama in which Pirrie played the eponymous main character.[1] For this performance she won Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2013,[3] and was nominated for Best British Newcomer at the 2012 BFI London Film Festival Awards.[4] In 2013, she played a politician in "The Waldo Moment", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.[1] In the same year she was named as one of BAFTA's "Breakthrough Brits",[3]
In 2014, Pirrie starred in the BBC miniseries The Game, a Cold War spy thriller in which she played an MI5 secretary.[2] The following year she appeared as Sheila Birling in Helen Edmundson's BBC One adaptation of J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls,[5] in the miniseries The Last Panthers, the British independent film Burn Burn Burn, and the Italian film Youth.[5]
In 2015, she starred as Ellie in the Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film, Stutterer.[5]
She played Julie Karagina in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace[1] and was cast as Emily Brontë in To Walk Invisible, a BBC drama about the Brontë family created by Sally Wainwright.[6] She also starred in episode "In the Footsteps of a Killer" as Grace Matlock, an employee at the Saint Marie Times in Death In Paradise.[5]
She also played Lara in the 2016 BBC thriller series, The Living and the Dead.[7] In 2017, she starred in the Netflix series The Crown,[5] for its second season, playing Eileen Parker. In 2018, she appeared as Andromache in the BBC/Netflix miniseries Troy: Fall of a City.[8]
In 2019, she appeared as prosecutor Ella Mackie in BBC's thriller miniseries The Victim.[9]
In 2020, she appeared in Autumn de Wilde's film adaptation[5] of Jane Austen's novel Emma as Isabella Knightley, elder sister of the titular character played by Anya Taylor-Joy. Later that year she appeared as Alice Harmon, the birth mother of Beth Harmon, also played by Taylor-Joy, in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit.[5]
In 2025, she appeared in the main cast for the first season of the Netflix series Dept. Q, portraying abducted Crown solicitor Merritt Lingard.[3]
