Emily Woof

Emily Woof is an English actor, author, playwright and performer who grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne and trained in physical theater and clown at École Philippe Gaulier in Paris after interrupting her English degree at Oxford. She started out writing and performing her own stage shows, and her Sex III won a Fringe First and a Perrier Pick of the Fringe and played at the Royal Court Theatre. On screen she is known for The Full Monty (1997), which brought her a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of its cast, Velvet Goldmine (1998), and The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005), and she was nominated for a London Film Critics' Circle award for Wondrous Oblivion. She has published the novels The Whole Wide Beauty and The Lightning Tree, written radio plays and short films, and won a 2025 Offie for her show Blizzard.