Lara Peake

Lara Peake was born in 1997 or 1998. She is from Nottingham, England. She has no formal training in acting, never having attended drama school,^[1] but joined the Inspire Academy in Nottingham, run by actor Luke Gell.^[2]

Peake had her initial breakthrough at the age of 15, when she was cast opposite George MacKay in Duane Hopkins' independent feature film Bypass.^[1][3] This earned her a spot on the 2015 longlist for the British Independent Film Awards "Most Promising Newcomer".^[4][1][2]

She has a lead role in the 2016 coming-of-age film Spaceship.^[5] She appeared in Jo Brand's 2016 comedy vehicle Damned on Channel 4, and appeared in Tracey Ullman's Show on the BBC.^[5] She appeared with Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning in the 2017 feature film How to Talk to Girls at Parties, adapted from a short story by fantasy writer Neil Gaiman.^[5] In the same year, she appeared in Channel 4's 2017 four-part psychological thriller series Born to Kill.^[6]

Peake appears in Final Score (2018) with Pierce Brosnan and Dave Bautista as a West Ham United fan who encounters terrorists during a match at the Boleyn Ground.^[7] In 2020 she appeared in the Netflix series The English Game written by Julian Fellowes, about the birth of professionalism in association football in Victorian England.^[8] Also in 2020, she played Madysun in the six-part series Brave New World.^{[citation needed]}

In 2023, Peake appeared in How to Have Sex^[9] and was cast in the Disney+ television adaptation of Jilly Cooper's novel Rivals.^[10]

In 2025, she learnt British Sign Language in order to take a major role as the protagonist's daughter, Carly, in the BBC miniseries Reunion.^[2][11]