Rosie Day
Biography
Rosie Day is an English actress, author and playwright who began performing as a child, after a casting director spotted her at the age of four and cast her as Emma in the BBC drama Hope and Glory. She appeared at the Royal National Theatre in Summerfolk and built a reputation in British television before playing Naomi in the West End production of Spur of the Moment in 2010. Her feature debut came in The Seasoning House (2012), as a sex-trafficking victim, which won her a Best Actress award at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival. She went on to roles in All Roads Lead to Rome (2015), the Starz series Outlander, the comedy-drama Living the Dream, and the horror film Down a Dark Hall (2018), and later starred in Hard Home (2024). She has also written for stage and published books, including Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon.
31years old
Turns 32 on March 6in 145 days
- Born Cambridge
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as Rosie Jane Day
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 12 years2012 to 2024
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First role
Day was spotted by a casting director at age four and cast as Emma in the first season of the BBC drama Hope and Glory, which aired in 1999.
Big break
Day returned to television as Mary Hawkins in Outlander, the Starz historical drama whose second season aired in 2016. Scottish actor Sam Heughan, her colleague from two years earlier, put her name forward for the role.
Getting ready for a role
Day made her feature film debut in 2012 as Angel, a sex-trafficking victim, in the horror film The Seasoning House. She learned sign language and researched what women in that situation had gone through.
Early training
Day never trained professionally as an actor; she learned by watching and imitating the adult co-stars she worked with as a child.
Behind the camera
Day wrote and performed a one-woman show called Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon. After previewing in 2020, it ran from February to March 2022 at the Southwark Playhouse.
Rosie Day movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Rosie Day shares two films with Sean Pertwee, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Sean Pertwee's page
Uma Thurman's page
Claudia Cardinale's page
Sarah Jessica Parker's page
Pip Torrens's page
Paz Vega's page
All films by Paul Hyett
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.