Lydia Peckham

Peckham spent her childhood in Edinburgh and the West Coast of Scotland, as well as France, before growing-up in New Zealand from the age of eight years-old where she attended Nelson College for Girls and Toi Whakaari. As well as attending drama school in New Zealand, Peckham appeared on stage in England as Ariel in The Tempest at the Old Globe Theatre, and the Minack Theatre in Cornwall.^[1][2][3]

Peckham had early television roles in Cowboy Bebop for Netflix, and Mr. Corman for Apple TV+. She also appeared in the film Only Cloud Knows (2019), a Chinese and New Zealand co-production. During the COVID-19 pandemic she co-wrote a play with her sister Scarlett, which was performed in Wellington, New Zealand, when pandemic restrictions were lifted.^[3][2]

Peckham appeared in science-fiction film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as the CGI ape Soona, for which she completed a self-filmed audition tape from a tree in her family apple orchard in Nelson, New Zealand, with a camera bunny-tied to the tree. For the role she had six weeks of "Ape training" with Alain Gauthier, choreographer from Cirque du Soleil, and filmed in Australia.^[1][2][4][3]

In February 2024 she was cast in historical drama film Nuremberg, in the role of journalist Lila, the film premiering the following year.^[5][6][1] Later that year, she joined the cast of Amazon MGM Studios action comedy film The Wrecking Crew.^[7]

In February 2025, she was cast in the 2025 television series Robin Hood as Priscilla of Nottingham, the daughter of Sean Bean's Sheriff.^[8][9]