New Facts About The Jodie Comer

Jodie Marie Comer (/ˈkoʊmər/ KOH-mər; born 11 March 1993) is an English actress. She rose to global prominence for her role as Oksana Astankova / Villanelle in the BBC America spy thriller Killing Eve (2018–2022) for which she received critical acclaim and won a British Academy Television Award for Best Actress and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Her major film roles include Millie Rusk / Molotov Girl in Free Guy (2021), and Marguerite de Carrouges in The Last Duel (2021).

Born and raised in Liverpool, Comer began her career in an episode of The Royal Today in 2008. Following appearances in several television series, she landed the roles of Chloe Gemell in the E4 comedy-drama series My Mad Fat Diary (2013–2015) and Kate Parks in the BBC One drama series Doctor Foster (2015–2017). In between the series, Comer received critical acclaim for her portrayal as Ivy Moxam in the BBC Three drama miniseries Thirteen. Her other major television roles include Elizabeth of York in the Starz historical miniseries The White Princess (2017), and Sarah in the Channel 4 television film Help (2021). Comer made her West End debut in Suzie Miller's play Prima Facie at the Harold Pinter Theatre in 2022.

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Jodie Marie Comer[1] was born in Liverpool on 11 March 1993,[2] the daughter of Merseyrail employee Donna Comer and Everton FC physiotherapist James Comer. She grew up in Liverpool's Childwall suburb.[3][4] She has a younger brother named Charlie (born in 1995).[5][6] She 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.[7][8] She 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.[9][10][11]

After being expelled from a dance group by her friends in high school because she was unable to attend rehearsals for the school talent show due to being on holiday with her family, Comer decided to perform her monologue for the show; this brought her to the attention of her drama teacher, who sent her to audition for a BBC Radio 4 play, which became her first acting job.[12][13] Her co-stars in the play told her that she could make a career out of acting and advised her to get an agent.[14][15]

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Career beginnings (2008–2017)

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. She then made appearances in series such as Waterloo Road, Holby City, Doctors, Silent Witness, Casualty, Law & Order: UK, Vera, and Inspector George Gently. She 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. Comer appeared in the 2015 adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a television film broadcast on BBC One. In the same year, Comer appeared as Kate Parks in the BBC One drama series Doctor Foster.

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Career beginnings (2008–2017)

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. She then made appearances in series such as Waterloo Road, Holby City, Doctors, Silent Witness, Casualty, Law & Order: UK, Vera, and Inspector George Gently. She 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. Comer appeared in the 2015 adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a television film broadcast on BBC One. In the same year, Comer appeared as Kate Parks in the BBC One drama series Doctor Foster.

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. In December 2016, she appeared in the BBC miniseries Rillington Place as Beryl Evans, one of serial killer John Christie’s victims.[12] In 2016, Comer was listed as one of Screen International's "Stars of Tomorrow" in association with the BFI London Film Festival. In 2017, she starred as a young Elizabeth of York in The White Princess on Starz,[16] a sequel to the BBC miniseries The White Queen.[17] In 2017, she also made her feature film debut, as Christine in the Morrissey biopic England Is Mine.

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Comer performed a cameo in the 2019 film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, appearing as Rey's mother Miramir in flashbacks.[25][26]

In June 2020, Comer played the lead role of Lesley in a BBC iPlayer reboot of the Talking Heads episode "Her Big Chance".[27] The episode, directed by Josie Rourke, was filmed in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In December 2018, it was announced Comer had been cast in the action comedy film Free Guy, which began filming in May 2019.[28][29] Comer is the female lead alongside Ryan Reynolds. She played two roles in the film: Millie, a games developer, and Molotov Girl, Millie's in-game avatar. The film was released on 13 August 2021.[30] It later debuted on Disney Plus for home viewers on 23 February 2022. A cover version of Mariah Carey song "Fantasy" sung by Comer was used in the film.[31] For this role, she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Upcoming projects

In March 2022, it was announced that Comer will star in and produce a limited series adaptation of Jen Beagin’s novel Big Swiss for HBO. The project will be produced by A24 and Adam McKay's Hyperobject Industries.[39] She is also 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.[40] Benedict Cumberbatch's SunnyMarch and Liza Marshall's Hera Pictures will produce the project, and started filming in August 2022. In the same month, it was announced that Comer will star alongside Austin Butler and Tom Hardy in Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders, which is a fictional story inspired by the photography of Danny Lyon and his 1967 book of the same name. The film will be released by New Regency and shall commence filming in October 2022.[41]

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Later in 2021, Comer teamed with writer Jack Thorne and actor Stephen Graham to star in the Channel 4 drama Help,[32] in which she played a young care home worker struggling during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. She also acted as an executive producer. The role earned her a fifth British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress nomination which she ultimately won. Comer portrayed Marguerite de Carrouges in Ridley Scott's The Last Duel alongside Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Ben Affleck.[33] The film was released worldwide on 15 October 2021.

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. For the role, Comer received significant critical acclaim.[34][35][36] Comer will make her Broadway debut with Prima Facie when the production transfers from the West End, in spring 2023.[37] Starting 21 July 2022, a filmed performance of the play at the Harold Pinter Theatre was shown at cinemas around the world by NT Live.[38]

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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. In December 2016, she appeared in the BBC miniseries Rillington Place as Beryl Evans, one of serial killer John Christie’s victims.[12] In 2016, Comer was listed as one of Screen International's "Stars of Tomorrow" in association with the BFI London Film Festival. In 2017, she starred as a young Elizabeth of York in The White Princess on Starz,[16] a sequel to the BBC miniseries The White Queen.[17] In 2017, she also made her feature film debut, as Christine in the Morrissey biopic England Is Mine.

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