Emily Barclay

Emily Barclay is a British-born New Zealander actress, and honors for her screen and stage work have come from organizations such as the Australian Film Institute Awards and the British Independent Film Awards. Born in Plymouth and raised in Auckland, she played Hamlet in a school production at nine and decided to become an actress, taking drama classes on Saturday mornings. A casting agent who had also discovered Anna Paquin and Keisha Castle-Hughes spotted her at school and gave her the part of Celia in In My Father's Den (2004), the film that raised her to prominence and earned her the British Independent Film Awards prize for Most Promising Newcomer in 2005. She then moved to Australia for the crime drama Suburban Mayhem (2006), winning an AFI Award for Best Actress. Her stage credits include Gethsemane in Sydney and Three Sisters at London's Young Vic.