Emma Mackey Trivia | 40 facts about the actress

Emma Mackey is a French-British actress, who had her breakthrough playing Maeve Wiley on the Netflix comedy-drama series «Sex Education».

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1. Her full name is Emma Margaret Marie Tachard-Mackey.
2. She was born on 4th of January 1996.
3. She’s a French-British actress.
4. Following minor roles in independent and short films.
5. Emma Mackey had her breakthrough playing Maeve Wiley on the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education (2019–present).
6. She earned a British Academy Television Award nomination for her role on «Sex Education».
7. She has appeared in the drama film Eiffel (2021), in the mystery film Death on the Nile (2022), and in the partly fictional, partly biographical film Emily (2022).
8. Her zodiac sign is Capricorn.
9. As of 2022 she’s 26 years old.
10. She was born in Le Mans.
11. She’s the daughter of a French father and an English mother.
12. Her father is a school headmaster.
13. She grew up in Sablé-sur-Sarthe.
14. She received her baccalauréat in 2013 with High Honours in l’académie de Nantes, a French school district.
15. She then moved to England to study English language and literature at the University of Leeds.
16. She graduated in 2016.
17. Mackey lives in London as a dual French-British citizen.
18. Mackey was cast in her first professional role with the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education as Maeve Wiley, an intelligent, quick-witted, business-savvy “bad girl” who convinces fellow student Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) to start an underground sex therapy business at their school.
19. She stated that “For me, this is my first piece of work. … It was—and still is—a really happy time.”Mackey’s work on the series has earned her acclaim.
20. The Hindustan Times wrote “Emma Mackey, as Maeve, is a revelation; perhaps the best performance by a young British actress I’ve seen since I discovered Florence Pugh. She’s alluring yet distant, pragmatic yet emotional, whip-smart yet foolishly in love.”
21. For the role, she received a British Academy Television Award nomination in 2021, and won a National Comedy Award in 2022.
22. In 2021, Mackey led the independent romantic drama film Eiffel, which premiered at the Alliance Française French Film Festival and has earned numerous international theatrical releases.
23. Review site DoItInParis stated that Mackey “radiates mischief in the boots of a rebellious and entire provincial bourgeoisie, a bit capricious but madly endearing.”
24. The following year, she starred in the mystery thriller film Death on the Nile, a sequel to 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express. She was cast in 2019 in the supporting role of Jacqueline de Bellefort
25. The film earned generally positive reviews, and was one of the highest-grossing films of 2022.
26. In May 2020, it was announced that Mackey would portray the novelist Emily Brontë in the partly fictional 2022 biopic Emily.
27. Emily was her first leading film role.
28. In March 2022, she was cast in the Warner Bros film Barbie (2023), which is directed by Greta Gerwig and will additionally star Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu, Will Ferrell and Sex Education co-stars Ncuti Gatwa and Connor Swindell
29. Emma is 5 feet two inches tall, which is around 1.58 metres.
30. Before her acting career took off, Emma modelled for numerous major brands including AIDA Shoreditch.
31. She looks a lot like Margot Robbie.
32. The two of them are not realted.
33. Emma Mackey hasn’t spoken publicly on whether or not she is dating anyone.
34. She has never had a French passport.
35. Chasing the dream comes at a cost which proved too expensive for Emma. After leaving Leeds University, the actress stayed in London but could not afford to live on her own.
36. Consequently, she stayed at a friend’s house until she got a job as a live-in nanny before quitting to pursue her acting dream. Still, Emma had to stay with friends while attending acting classes.
37. Upon graduation in 2016, the actress went ahead to apply to drama school, but she was not accepted.
38. She was worried her grandparents would not like “Sex Education.”
39. While some celebrities will not mind taking a selfie with you, Emma hates having a phone shoved in her face and would prefer if she sat down with someone and have a conversation instead. It would be wrong to conclude that she is snobbish because she confessed that even she has a hard time approaching her idols.
40. Emma revealed that she once was on a train with Greta Gerwig whom she adores but could not approach he..