Who is Jodie Comer?

Jodie Comer is a British actress from Liverpool, England. She is known for playing Rey's mother in Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Villanelle in Killing Eve, Marguerite de Carrouges in The Last Duel, Kate Parks from Doctor Foster, Millie Rusk in Free Guy and Chloe Gemell from My Mad Fat Diary.

Overview

Nicknames
@jodiemcomer

Trivia

  • She has no formal acting training.
  • She got the call to audition for Killing Eve (2018) while nursing a hangover, following a party night with friends at a music festival in Barcelona. Despite feeling that she had little chance, she took the 13-hour flight to Los Angeles anyway. After five minutes in reading with Sandra Oh, she landed the part.
  • In 2019, she became the youngest winner of the Emmy in the category "Best Actress in a Drama Series", a record previously held by Lindsay Wagner, who was 28. One year later, the record was broken by Zendaya, who won the Emmy at the age of 24.
  • Before her acting career took off, she was a checkout girl in a Tesco supermarket and worked in a bar for some time.
  • On several occasions in her career, she had auditioned for a number of theatre projects. Even though the directors liked her performances, she was still rejected, because she had no acting or theatre training. Eventually, she landed the leading role in National Theatre Live: Prima Facie (2022), much to critical acclaim. It would earn her a Laurence Olivier Award.