1. Jodie Marie Comer is an English actress of screen and stage.
27 Facts About Jodie Comer
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Jodie Comer began her career in an episode of The Royal Today in 2008.
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From 2018 to 2022, Jodie Comer played sociopathic assassin Villanelle in the BBC America spy thriller television series Killing Eve, winning a BAFTA Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Jodie Comer expanded to films in 2021 with main roles in the action comedy film Free Guy and historical drama The Last Duel.
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Jodie Comer was born in Liverpool on 11 March 1993, the daughter of Merseyrail employee Donna and Everton FC physiotherapist James Comer.
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Jodie Comer has a younger brother named Charlie, born in 1995.
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Jodie Comer grew up in Liverpool's Childwall suburb and attended St Julie's Catholic High School in its neighbouring Woolton suburb, where she became close friends with future Olympic athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson.
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Jodie Comer's career began in 2008 with a guest role on an episode of The Royal Today.
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Jodie Comer then made minor appearances in several television series.
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Jodie Comer was cast in leading roles in the 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's first starring role was in 2016 as Ivy Moxam in the BBC Three miniseries Thirteen, which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
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Also in 2017, Jodie Comer made her feature film debut, as Christine in the Morrissey biographical drama England Is Mine, directed by Mark Gill.
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Also in 2019, Jodie Comer made a cameo appearance in the film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, appearing as Rey's mother in a flashback.
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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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Jodie Comer next appeared in the action comedy film Free Guy, alongside Ryan Reynolds, in which she played two roles: 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, as a young care home worker struggling during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom; she served as an executive producer.
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Also in 2021, Jodie Comer portrayed Marguerite de Carrouges in Ridley Scott's The Last Duel, alongside Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Adam Driver.
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Jodie Comer made her West End debut in Suzie Miller's one-woman play Prima Facie at the Harold Pinter Theatre which started in April 2022 and concluded in June 2022.
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Jodie Comer was praised for her role as criminal defense barrister Tessa Ensler.
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Jodie Comer made her Broadway debut with Prima Facie when the production transferred from the West End, in spring 2023.
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In 2023, Jodie Comer starred, alongside Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, in Jeff Nichols's The Bikeriders, a drama inspired by the photography of Danny Lyon and his 1967 book of the same name.
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Jodie Comer subsequently starred in and produced the environmental thriller The End We Start From, an adaptation of Megan Hunter's debut novel, directed by Mahalia Belo.
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Jodie Comer stated that it was tough as the only woman on the set of The Bikeriders.
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Jodie Comer has been called one of the finest actors of her generation.
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Jodie Comer revealed that she took up smoking to deliver a more authentic performance for her role in The Bikeriders, only to accidentally singe her eyelashes.
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Jodie Comer has received nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Critics' Choice Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.