Jodie Comer

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Born March 11, 1993 (33 years old)·Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK·Female

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Jodie Marie Comer (/ˈkoʊmər/ KOH-mər; born 11 March 1993) is an English actress of screen and stage. She began her career in an episode of The Royal Today in 2008. Comer gained recognition for appearing in the series My Mad Fat Diary (2013–2015) and Doctor Foster (2015–2017) and starred in the drama miniseries Thirteen (2016). From 2018 to 2022, Comer played sociopathic assassin Villanelle in the BBC America spy thriller television series Killing Eve, winning a BAFTA Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. For playing Sarah, a healthcare assistant, in the television film Help (2021), she won another BAFTA Television Award.

Comer expanded to films in 2021 with main roles in the action comedy film Free Guy and historical drama The Last Duel. In 2022, she made her West End theatre debut in Suzie Miller's one-woman play Prima Facie, which earned her an Evening Standard Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. Following its transfer to Broadway in 2023, she won a Tony Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jodie Comer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.