Poppy Lee Friar

Poppy Lee Friar is an English actress from the Southwark district of London. She made her television debut in 2001 with Wilhelmina and spent several years in West End theater, playing Jane Banks in Mary Poppins, Louisa in The Sound of Music and a part in Macbeth at the Gielgud Theatre. From 2005 to 2009 she voiced June in the British version of Little Einsteins. Her screen credits include Mr Selfridge, the CBBC series Eve, in which she took the title role, and My Cousin Rachel (2017). She gained critical acclaim as Missy Booth in Ackley Bridge and won an RTS award for that work. She also starred as Lydia in In My Skin and in the 2022 BBC Three film Life and Death in the Warehouse. Her performances have earned BAFTA and AACTA nominations, and in 2022 she played Mayella Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird at the Gielgud Theatre.