Chloe Pirrie
Biography
Chloe Pirrie is a Scottish actress who grew up in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, took up acting at school and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she graduated in 2009. She began her stage career at the Royal National Theatre, appearing in Men Should Weep in 2010, and her breakthrough came with the title role in the Scottish drama Shell (2012), which won her the British Independent Film Awards prize for Most Promising Newcomer and a place among BAFTA's Breakthrough Brits. She has since appeared in the BBC adaptation An Inspector Calls (2015), the Italian film Youth (2015), the Academy Award-winning short Stutterer (2015), the Brontë drama To Walk Invisible (2016), War & Peace (2016), The Crown (2017) and The Queen's Gambit (2020).
39years old
Turns 40 on August 25in 317 days
- Born Edinburgh
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 14 years2012 to 2026
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Behind the award
Chloe Pirrie won Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards in 2013 for playing the title character in the Scottish drama Shell.
First role
Pirrie's professional career began while she was waiting tables in a London burger restaurant, and her first professional job was at the Royal National Theatre in a 2010 production of Men Should Weep.
Early training
Pirrie moved to London at 18 to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she graduated in 2009.
Early training
Pirrie started acting while she was at school. After she was given a part in a school staging of The Cherry Orchard, she made up her mind to follow acting as a career.
Chloe Pirrie movies on Netflix
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Worked with
Chloe Pirrie shares two films with Fiona Shaw, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Michael Caine's page
Harvey Keitel's page
Jonathan Pryce's page
Jane Fonda's page
David Thewlis's page
All films by Paolo Sorrentino
Aisling WalshDirector, 1 film, 2015
All films by Aisling Walsh
Sally WainwrightDirector, 1 film, 2016
All films by Sally Wainwright
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