Jemima Kirke

Jemima Kirke is a British-American actress and artist. Born in London and raised in New York City from age 11, she studied painting, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, and has shown her paintings in New York galleries. Her earliest screen work came in the 2005 short Smile for the Camera, and she moved into features with Tiny Furniture (2010), a low-budget film made with friends of its director, Lena Dunham. She became widely known for playing Jessa Johansson across all six seasons of the HBO series Girls, from 2011 to 2017, and took supporting parts in the dark comedies Ava's Possessions (2015) and The Little Hours (2017) and a lead in Untogether (2018). She later played Hope in Sex Education, Melissa in Conversations with Friends and appeared in City on Fire, and made her directing debut in 2019 with a music video.