Emma Laird is an English actress who turned from model to actress. She became known for her role as Iris in the TV series Mayor of Kingstown, and then gained a place in cinema with films such as A Haunting in Venice and The Brutalist.
He was born and raised in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. When she was eighteen, she caught the eye of a modeling agency at a music festival and worked in the field for about seven years; In 2019, she became the face of Pandora's fall campaign. She later openly criticized the pressure on young women in the modeling industry. When he turned to acting, he studied at the New York Film Academy.
Acting career
He got his first major role in Mayor of Kingstown, which started broadcasting in 2021. In this crime series by Taylor Sheridan, she played Iris, a young woman trying to live with the violence around her. Two more productions came in 2023: She played Annabelle in the Apple TV+ mini-series The Crowded Room, and Desdemona Holland in Kenneth Branagh's Agatha Christie adaptation A Haunting in Venice.
She played Audrey in The Brutalist (2024), directed by Brady Corbet. In 2025, he starred in the films Satisfaction and 28 Years Later; She reprized her character as Jimmima in the latter in the 2026 sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. In the same year, he was included in Screen International's list of stars of the future.
Laird, who went from television to prestigious cinema productions in a short time, continues to work as one of the prominent names in the new generation of British actors.
