Eliza Scanlen

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Eliza Scanlen (2019)

Eliza Scanlen (born January 6, 1999 in Sydney , New South Wales ) is an Australian actress .

Life

Eliza Scanlen was born in Sydney, has a twin sister and took piano lessons as a child for several years. She graduated from high school in 2016 .

While attending high school, she got the role of Tabitha Ford in the Australian soap opera Home and Away . In 2018 she had the title role in the short film Grace , for which she was nominated at the St. Kilda Film Festival in the category Best Actor . She played the role of Amma Crellin in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects , alongside Patricia Clarkson as her film mother Adora and Amy Adams as her older half-sister Camille Preaker. She was awarded the Screen Australia Breakthrough Award by Australians in Film (AiF) in 2018 .

In Little Women by Greta Gerwig , based on the novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott about the four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March, she played the role of Beth. Emma Watson , Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh impersonated their film sisters. At the beginning of 2019 she was in front of the camera for the filming of Das Handwerk des Teufels (The Devil All the Time) by Antônio Campos with Tom Holland , Chris Evans and Mia Wasikowska , where she played the role of Lenora Laferty. She premiered with the Sydney Theater Company in July 2019 in Lord of the Flies as Eric in a production by Kip Williams opposite Mia Wasikowska as Ralph.

In the film Milla Meets Moses (original title Babyteeth ) by Shannon Murphy, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival 2019 in the competition for the Golden Lion , she played the lead role of the cancer- stricken teenager Milla Finlay.

Awards and nominations

Australians in Film 2018

  • Received the Screen Australia Breakthrough Award

St. Kilda Film Festival 2018

  • Nomination in the category Best Actor for Grace

Filmography (selection)

  • 2015: A Class Act - Let Them Eat Cake (TV series)
  • 2016: Lacuna (short film)
  • 2016: Home and Away (TV series, 15 episodes)
  • 2018: Grace (short film)
  • 2018: Love and Other Places (short film)
  • 2018: Sharp Objects (TV series, 8 episodes)
  • 2019: Little Women
  • 2019: Milla Meets Moses ( Babyteeth )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eliza Scanlen in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
  2. ↑ a b Krista Smith: Sharp Objects Star Eliza Scanlen Holds Her Own Opposite Her Childhood Idol. In: Vanity Fair. July 3, 2018, accessed on July 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Joanna Robinson: Sharp Objects Star Eliza Scanlen on Working with Greta Gerwig for Little Women. In: Vanity Fair. August 27, 2018, accessed on July 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Cy Clayton: From Home and Away to Hollywood, Eliza Scanlen sharpens her talent. In: The West Austrialian. July 4, 2018, accessed on July 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Eliza Scanlen: Awards. Retrieved July 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Mia Galuppo: Amy Adams, Monica Lewinsky Among Presenters for Australians in Film Awards. In: Hollywood Reporter. October 16, 2018, accessed on July 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Justin Kroll: 'It' Star Bill Skarsgard and 'Sharp Objects' Actress Eliza Scanlen Join Netflix's 'The Devil All the Time' (EXCLUSIVE). In: Variety. January 16, 2019, accessed on July 20, 2019 .
  8. ^ Casting Announced For STC's LORD OF THE FLIES. June 7, 2019, accessed July 20, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Eryn Jean Norvill ready for theater return. In: The West Australian. June 6, 2019, accessed on July 21, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Venezia 76 Competition: Babyteeth. Accessed August 26, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 2018 Short Film Award Nominations - St Kilda Film Festival. Retrieved July 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Scanlen, Eliza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , New South Wales , Australia