Jessica Barden

Jessica Barden is an English actress who began performing as a child and later became known for playing Alyssa in a darkly comic drama made for Channel 4 and Netflix. Born in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, she started acting through school and a local drama club, and made her television debut in 1999 in an episode of My Parents Are Aliens. She played Kayleigh Morton in Coronation Street from 2007 to 2008 and appeared on stage in Jerusalem in 2009. Her films include Tamara Drewe (2010), Hanna (2011), The Lobster (2015), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), The New Romantic (2018), Holler (2020) and Pink Skies Ahead (2020). She was nominated for a British Independent Film Award for Scarborough (2018), was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, and has starred on television in Lambs of God, Pieces of Her and You & Me.