Emerald Lilly Fennell (born 1 October 1985) is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first gained attention for her roles in period films, such as Albert Nobbs (2011),  Anna Karenina (2012), and The Danish Girl (2015). She gained prominence for her starring role in the BBC One drama series Call the Midwife (2013–2017) and for her portrayal of Camilla Parker-Bowles in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2019–2020), the latter of which garnered her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. As a writer-director, Fennell is known as the showrunner for season two of the BBC spy thriller series Killing Eve (2019), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She made her feature film directorial debut with the thriller Promising Young Woman (2020), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and received nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. Fennell also wrote the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cinderella (2021) and directed her second film, the psychological thriller Saltburn (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Emerald Fennell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026“Wuthering Heights” — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2025Prüdes Hollywood - Laster, Lust und Leidenschaft im Film
• 2023Barbie — Midge
• 2023Saltburn — Writer, Director, Producer
• 2020Promising Young Woman — Woman in Makeup Tutorial (uncredited), Producer, Director, Writer
• 2019Vita & Virginia — Vanessa Bell
• 2018Careful How You Go — Screenplay, Director
• Killing Eve — Writer, Executive Producer
• The Crown — Camilla Shand / Camilla Parker Bowles
• 2016The Darkest Universe — Jess
• Victoria — Lady Lovelace
• 2015Pan — Commander
• 2015The Danish Girl — Elsa
• Blandings — Monica Simmons
• Chickens — Agnes
• Drifters — Lizzie
• 2013Murder on the Home Front — Issy Quennell
• Murder on the Home Front — Issy Quennell
• 2013The Lady Vanishes — Odette
• 2012Anna Karenina — Princess Merkalova
• Call the Midwife — Patsy Mount, Nurse Patsy Mount
• 2011Albert Nobbs — Mrs. Smythe-Willard
• Any Human Heart — Lottie
• 2010Mr. Nice — Rachel
• Nemesis — Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2024Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out — Self
• Directors on Directors — Self
• Movies with Ali Plumb — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• The Oscars — Self