Jodie Comer gained recognition for appearing in the series My Mad Fat Diary and Doctor Foster, and earned acclaim for starring in the drama miniseries Thirteen.
29 Facts About Jodie Comer
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From 2018 to 2022, Jodie Comer starred as Villanelle in the BBC America spy thriller series Killing Eve, winning a British Academy Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Jodie Comer expanded to films with starring roles in the action film Free Guy and period drama The Last Duel.
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Jodie Comer made her West End theatre debut in Suzie Miller's one-woman play Prima Facie in 2022, which earned her an Evening Standard Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.
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Jodie Marie Comer was born in Liverpool on 11 March 1993, the daughter of Merseyrail employee Donna Comer and Everton FC physiotherapist James Comer.
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Jodie Comer attended St Julie's Catholic High School in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton, where she became close friends with future Olympic athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson.
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Jodie Comer started acting at a local weekend drama school called CALS in the Belle Vale area of Liverpool when she was 11 years old, and it was through this school that she entered the Liverpool Performing Arts Festival in 2006 at St George's Hall and came first in her category after performing a monologue about the Hillsborough Disaster.
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Jodie Comer's friends kicked her out of their high school dance group because a holiday with her family clashed with rehearsals for the school's talent show, and she instead decided to perform the monologue for the show.
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Jodie Comer's career began in 2008 with a guest role on an episode of The Royal Today, a spin-off series of the medical drama series The Royal.
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Jodie Comer was cast in leading roles in the five-episode drama series Justice, the supernatural miniseries Remember Me, and as Chloe Gemell in the E4 comedy-drama series My Mad Fat Diary.
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Jodie Comer appeared in the 2015 adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a television film broadcast on BBC One.
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Jodie Comer was cast in her first starring role as Ivy Moxam in the BBC Three miniseries Thirteen, which premiered in February 2016 and earned her a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
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In 2016, Jodie Comer was listed as one of Screen International's "Stars of Tomorrow" in association with the BFI London Film Festival.
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In June 2018, Jodie Comer was one of the actresses in a series of BBC Four monologues called Snatches: Moments From Women's Lives, inspired by events that took place in the century since women first won the vote.
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Jodie Comer was ranked No 94 on the Radio Times "TV 100" list for 2018.
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Jodie Comer performed a cameo in the 2019 film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, appearing as Rey's mother Miramir in flashbacks.
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In June 2020, Jodie Comer played the lead role of Lesley in a BBC iPlayer reboot of the Talking Heads episode "Her Big Chance".
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In December 2018, it was announced Jodie Comer had been cast in the action comedy film Free Guy, which began filming in May 2019.
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Jodie Comer played two roles in the film: Millie, a games developer, and Molotov Girl, Millie's in-game avatar.
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Later in 2021, Jodie Comer teamed with writer Jack Thorne and actor Stephen Graham to star in the Channel 4 drama Help, in which she played a young care home worker struggling during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.
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Jodie Comer portrayed Marguerite de Carrouges in Ridley Scott's The Last Duel alongside Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Ben Affleck.
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Jodie Comer made her West End debut in Suzie Miller's play Prima Facie at the Harold Pinter Theatre which started in April 2022 and concluded in June 2022.
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Jodie Comer will make her Broadway debut with Prima Facie when the production transfers from the West End, in spring 2023.
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Jodie Comer is committed to star in and produce the environmental thriller The End We Start From, an adaptation of Megan Hunter's debut novel directed by Mahalia Belo.
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On 31 March 2020, Jodie Comer was announced as the brand ambassador for skin-care brand Noble Panacea.
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In 2020, Jodie Comer discussed the class discrimination she experienced during her career as someone from a working-class city.
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Jodie Comer is known for guarding her private life and relationships.
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Jodie Comer was previously active on Twitter, but left the platform in 2020 after she was harassed by fans who believed they had found proof that her American boyfriend was a supporter of then US President Donald Trump.
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Jodie Comer has received nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.