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Chloe Pirrie

1987-08-25 (37 years old) in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Chloe Pirrie (born August 25, 1987) is a Scottish actress. She has played main roles in the 2014 miniseries The Game, the 2012 film Shell, and the 2015 television film An Inspector Calls. She has also appeared in the 2016 miniseries War & Peace, the 2015 film Youth, the 2015 film Blood Cells and a 2013 episode of Black Mirror. In 2015 she also co-starred in the Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film, Stutterer. Pirrie was raised in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, and attended the Mary Erskine School. She began acting in school and decided to pursue it as a career after being cast in a school production of The Cherry Orchard. She moved to London at the age of 18 to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and graduated in 2009. Pirrie's professional acting career began in 2009. She made her debut at the Royal National Theatre in a 2010 production of Men Should Weep alongside numerous other Scottish actors. Shortly afterwards, she appeared in Solstice, a short film released in 2010. Her first role in a feature film was in Shell (2012), a Scottish drama in which Pirrie played the eponymous main character. For this performance she won Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2013 and was nominated for Best British Newcomer at the 2012 BFI London Film Festival Awards. In 2013, she played a politician in "The Waldo Moment", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror. In the same year she was named as one of BAFTA's "Breakthrough Brits" and Screen International's "UK Stars of Tomorrow". In 2014, Pirrie starred in the BBC miniseries The Game, a Cold War spy thriller in which she played an MI5 secretary. The following year she appeared as Sheila Birling in Helen Edmundson's BBC One adaptation of J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls, in the miniseries The Last Panthers, the British independent film Burn Burn Burn, and the Italian film Youth. In 2015, she starred as Ellie in the Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film, Stutterer. Ellie is the love interest for Greenwood (played by Matthew Needham). Greenwood has a major stuttering problem and can't speak effectively, causing him to panic when Ellie suggests they take what had only been an online relationship, offline to meet in person. After finally giving in, Greenwood learns a secret about Ellie that changes everything. She played Julie Karagina in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace and was cast as Emily Brontë in To Walk Invisible, a BBC drama about the Brontë family created by Sally Wainwright. She also starred in the Death In Paradise episode 'In The Footsteps Of A Killer' as Grace Matlock, an employee at the Saint Marie Times. She also plays Lara in the 2016 BBC thriller series, The Living and the Dead. In 2017, she starred in the Netflix series, The Crown for its second season, playing Eileen Parker. In 2018, she appeared in the BBC/Netflix miniseries Troy: Fall of a City.

Movies

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Kryptic
80 %|Mar 10, 2024
Drama, Horror, Thriller
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Bug
0 %|Oct 1, 2022
Horror
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Left Over
0 %|Sep 5, 2022
Drama
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Kindred
56 %|Nov 6, 2020
Drama, Mystery, Horror
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Emma.
70.28999999999999 %|Feb 13, 2020
Comedy, Romance
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To Walk Invisible
72 %|Dec 26, 2016
Drama, History
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Burn Burn Burn
66.57 %|Oct 28, 2016
Drama, Comedy
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An Inspector Calls
74 %|Sep 13, 2015
Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery, TV Movie
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Stutterer
74 %|Jul 8, 2015
Drama
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Youth
69.03 %|May 20, 2015
Comedy, Drama
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Blood Cells
48 %|Apr 29, 2014
Drama
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Shell
63 %|Nov 26, 2012
Drama
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Storm Witch
0 %|Invalid Date
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
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Reflections
70 %|Apr 16, 2014
Mystery

Series

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Under the Banner of Heaven
75.7 %|Apr 28, 2022
Crime, Drama, Mystery
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The Queen's Gambit
84.83000000000001 %|Oct 23, 2020
Drama
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Temple
65 %|Sep 13, 2019
Drama, Mystery, Crime, Action & Adventure
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Carnival Row
77.15 %|Aug 29, 2019
Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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The Victim
71 %|Apr 8, 2019
Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Troy: Fall of a City
60 %|Feb 17, 2018
War & Politics, Drama, Action & Adventure
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The Crown
82.16 %|Nov 4, 2016
Drama
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The Living and the Dead
68 %|Jun 28, 2016
Drama
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War and Peace
76 %|Jan 3, 2016
Drama
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The Last Panthers
63 %|Nov 12, 2015
Crime, Drama
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The Game
74.06 %|Nov 5, 2014
War & Politics, Drama, Crime, Comedy
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Black Mirror
83 %|Dec 4, 2011
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
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Death in Paradise
75 %|Oct 25, 2011
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Department Q
0 %|Invalid Date
Crime, Drama
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Misfits
76.16 %|Nov 12, 2009
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Comedy