Eloise Smyth

Eloise Valentine Smyth,^[2] currently living in London, is the youngest daughter of Cathal Joseph Smyth (AKA Chas Smash), of the ska band Madness, and Joanna Brown.^[3][2][4]

Smyth began her acting career in 2012, in British crime drama film Ill Manors alongside Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein and Jo Hartley.^[5] In 2013, Smyth was lead actress when playing the role of Jess in the Jane Linfoot directed short film Sea View for Sigma Films/BFI, which was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 2013.^[6] The same film won the Best British Short Film Award at the Leeds International Film Festival, 2013.^[7] In 2015, Smyth landed a recurring role as Flora on the television series The Frankenstein Chronicles appearing alongside Sean Bean.^[8]

In 2016, Smyth secured a main role as Lucy Wells in 24 episodes of Harlots, a series about a brothel in 18th-century London.^[8][9] In 2017, Smyth played Yeva Podnikov for nine episodes of Sky Atlantic television series Fortitude.^[7][8]

In 2021, Smyth played a main role of Akae in the sci-fi film I Am Mortal^[10] (formerly titled The Code).^[11] The same year, Smyth starred alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the Stephan Rick directed The Good Neighbor, a film in which her character 'Vanessa' forms a romantic bond with her sister's killer.^[12]