Alison Oliver

Alison Oliver is an Irish actress who trained at The Lir Academy and graduated in 2020. She grew up in Cork and studied drama, singing and dancing before drama school. The morning after finishing her degree she learned she had been cast as the lead of Conversations with Friends, the 2022 BBC Three and Hulu miniseries based on Sally Rooney's novel. In 2023 she appeared in the BBC One drama Best Interests and made her London stage debut, later acting at the National Theatre in Dancing at Lughnasa. Her feature debut came with Saltburn (2023), playing Venetia Catton for Emerald Fennell, followed by a supporting part in Justin Kurzel's The Order (2024). She won the supporting actress prize in the drama category at the Irish Film & Television Awards for the 2025 HBO miniseries Task, and plays Isabella Linton in Fennell's Wuthering Heights (2026). Variety put her on its 2023 list of actors to watch.