Rebecca Calder

Rebecca Calder is an English actress who was born in Consett, County Durham, and grew up in New Zealand and Australia. She made her professional stage debut in 2007 with Silver Birch House and Pera Palas at the Arcola Theatre in East London, then moved into television with four episodes of Casualty. Guest roles followed in Primeval, The Bill and Doctors, and she played Martha McCoy in the 2012 miniseries Hatfields & McCoys. Her feature debut came with the horror thriller Altar (2014). Her performance opposite Jack Gordon in Love Me Do (2015) drew critical acclaim and won her Best Actress prizes at the European Independent Film Festival and also at the Cardiff Independent Film Festival. Later work includes the recurring role of Shirley in I May Destroy You, Coco Chanel in Genius, and the films Memory (2022), Hilma (2022) and The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025).