1. Jessica Yu-Li Henwick is a British actress, writer, and director.
27 Facts About Jessica Henwick
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Jessica Henwick began her career in 2010 and is best known for her roles in Game of Thrones, Iron Fist, Love and Monsters, Silk, The Defenders, The Matrix Resurrections, The Gray Man, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, and The Royal Hotel.
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Jessica Yu-Li Henwick is from Surrey, the daughter of a Singaporean-Chinese mother of Teochew descent and a Zambian-born English father.
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Jessica Henwick has two brothers, one older and one younger.
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Jessica Henwick trained briefly at Redroofs Theatre School before dropping out.
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Jessica Henwick trained with the National Youth Theatre under the tutelage of Rikki Beadle-Blair.
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In June 2009, it was announced Jessica Henwick had been cast in the lead role of Bo in the CBBC series Spirit Warriors, making her the first actress of East Asian descent to play the lead role in a British television series.
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In early 2013, Jessica Henwick made her professional theatre debut in the international premiere of Running on the Cracks, based on the book by Julia Donaldson.
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Later that year, Jessica Henwick was cast as Jane Jeong Trenka in the drama Obsession: Dark Desires about Trenka's stalking in Minnesota, 1991, which she details in her book The Language of Blood.
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Jessica Henwick joined the cast of Silk as new barrister pupil Amy.
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Jessica Henwick reprised her role for the spin-off radio series Silk: The Clerks' Room.
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In 2015, Jessica Henwick joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 5 as Nymeria Sand.
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Jessica Henwick originally auditioned for the role of Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens before losing out to Daisy Ridley for the role.
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In 2017, Jessica Henwick appeared as Colleen Wing in the Netflix television series Iron Fist.
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Jessica Henwick reprised the role for the series The Defenders, as well as the second season of Luke Cage.
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In 2018, Jessica Henwick was cast in Godzilla vs Kong, though her part as well as Zhang Ziyi's role did not make the released theatrical cut.
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In 2020, Jessica Henwick co-starred in the Fox science fiction thriller Underwater, and the films Love and Monsters and Sofia Coppola's On the Rocks.
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Jessica Henwick was nominated and won Best Supporting Actress on the Gold list Honors for the most outstanding Asian achievements in the film industry.
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In 2022, Jessica Henwick was in two of the most highly viewed Netflix films of all time: The Gray Man and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
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Jessica Henwick directed her short film Bus Girl, shot entirely on a smartphone during a break from filming Glass Onion.
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In 2023, Jessica Henwick joined the cast of The Royal Hotel directed by Kitty Green.
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Jessica Henwick's performance was well reviewed with The Hollywood Reporter calling her 'superb'.
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Jessica Henwick's performance required her to learn American Sign Language.
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Jessica Henwick has a miniseries in development with Emu Films.
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In 2022, Jessica Henwick wrote an episode for the animated series Moley.
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Jessica Henwick won the Mary Pickford prize for female filmmaker, for the Xiaomi short film 'Bus Girl' that she wrote, starred in and directed.
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Jessica Henwick wrote and directed the sequel 'Sandwich Man' the following year.