Pollyanna McIntosh

Pollyanna McIntosh is a Scottish actress and director whose screen career began in her teens with independent film and theater work in London. After moving to Los Angeles in 2004, she directed a stage production of The Woolgatherer and landed her first movie role in Headspace (2005). Her lead part in Exam (2009) brought a BAFTA nomination for best work of a rookie and a Raindance Award nomination from the British Independent Film Awards, while The Woman (2011) earned her a Fangoria Chainsaw Awards nomination for best actress. On television, she played Angel in Hap and Leonard and Jadis in The Walking Dead, later appearing as Queen Ælfgifu of Denmark in Vikings: Valhalla and voicing Kris in Scavengers Reign. She wrote, directed, and starred in the social issue horror film Darlin', which premiered at South by Southwest in 2019, and her credits also include Let Us Prey (2014).