Lara Peake

Lara Peake is an English actress who came to the profession without formal training, joining the Inspire Academy in Nottingham run by the actor Luke Gell. She grew up in Nottingham, England. Her breakthrough came at 15, when Duane Hopkins cast her opposite George MacKay in his film Bypass, and in 2015 she made the longlist for the British Independent Film Awards prize for Most Promising Newcomer. She had a lead in the coming-of-age film Spaceship (2016) and appeared in the Channel 4 comedy Damned and Tracey Ullman's Show. Her films include How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017), Final Score (2018) and How to Have Sex (2023), and on television she has been seen in Born to Kill (2017), The English Game and Brave New World. For the 2025 miniseries Reunion she learned British Sign Language.