Aisling Loftus

Aisling Loftus is a British actress who began performing as a child and whose first television work came on the ITV medical drama Peak Practice in 2000. Guest roles on Casualty, Doctors and The Bill followed before she won attention in 2010 with the BBC dramas Five Daughters and Dive, and she made her London stage debut that year in Spur of the Moment at the Royal Court Theatre. Her films include Oranges and Sunshine (2010), Death of a Superhero (2011), Page Eight (2011), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), Gun Shy (2017) and Homebound (2022), and critics at the Dublin International Film Festival gave her a special jury prize for Death of a Superhero. She is known on television for Mr Selfridge from 2013 to 2015, War and Peace, Broken, The Midwich Cuckoos and A Discovery of Witches, and she received an IFTA nomination for Property of the State. She originated Queenie in Small Island at the National Theatre.