Eliza Scanlen

Acting · Directing · Writing

Born January 6, 1999, Sydney, Australia

Eliza Jane Scanlen (born 6 January 1999) is an Australian actress. She rose to prominence portraying Tabitha Ford in the Australian soap opera Home and Away (2016), before receiving critical acclaim by playing a troubled teenager in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018). In 2022, she starred in the Showtime series The First Lady as young Eleanor Roosevelt. She made her film debut in 2019, with starring roles in the drama Babyteeth and Greta Gerwig’s period drama Little Women.

Filmography

• Dope Girls — Violet Davies
• 2025National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest — Cecily Cardew
• 2024Body of Water — Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 2024Caddo Lake — Ellie
• 2023How Can I Help You — Director, Writer
• Mayfair Witches — Jessica
• 2023The Starling Girl — Jem Starling
• The First Lady — Young Eleanor Roosevelt
• Fires — Natasha 'Tash' Jasic
• 2021Old — Kara Aged 15
• 2020Babyteeth — Milla
• 2020Mukbang — Writer, Director
• 2020The Devil All the Time — Lenora Laferty
• 2019Little Women — Beth March
• 2018Love and Other Places — Claude
• Sharp Objects — Amma Crellin
• 2017Grace — Grace
• 2016Lacuna — Zoe
• Home and Away — Tabitha
• All That I Am
• Fear Is the Rider
• Let It Come Down
• Margin of Error — Director, Writer
• Unspeakable — Lil