Angourie Rice facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Angourie Rice
Rice at the 2017 Cannes Festival
Born	Angourie Isabel Teresa Rice (2001-01-01) 1 January 2001 (age 24) Sydney, Australia
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2013–present

Angourie Isabel Teresa Rice (born 1 January 2001) is an Australian actress. She started acting when she was young. She became well-known for her roles in These Final Hours (2013) and The Nice Guys (2016).

Angourie played Betty Brant in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. You can see her in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). She won an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her main part in Ladies in Black (2018). In 2024, she played Cady Heron in the musical movie Mean Girls.

Angourie has also been in TV shows. These include the Black Mirror episode "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" (2019) and the HBO series Mare of Easttown (2021). She also starred in the Apple TV+ series The Last Thing He Told Me (2023).

Early Life

Angourie Rice was born in Sydney, Australia. Her name comes from Angourie, New South Wales, where her grandmother lived. Her dad, Jeremy Rice, is a director, and her mom, Kate Rice, is a writer.

She lived in Perth for five years and in Munich, Germany, for one year. After that, her family moved to Melbourne. She finished high school in 2018. Because she became a successful actress, she could not attend university.

Career Highlights

Angourie began her acting career in Perth, Australia. She appeared in several short films and Australian TV shows. In 2012, at just eleven years old, she got a main role in the short film Transmission. She won an award for Best Actress at the St Kilda Short Film Festival for this role.

Early Film and TV Roles

In 2013, Angourie made her first movie appearance in These Final Hours. This was a thriller about the end of the world. She also appeared in the live-action parts of the animated movie Walking with Dinosaurs.

In 2014, she was in the TV series The Doctor Blake Mysteries and Worst Year of My Life Again. She also appeared in Mako: Island of Secrets in 2015.

Breakthrough Roles

In 2016, Angourie had a big role as Holly March in the action-comedy movie The Nice Guys. She acted alongside famous actors Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. She also played Tegan, a supernatural villain, in the science-fiction movie Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows.

In 2017, she played Eliza Wishart in the Australian film Jasper Jones. This movie received many awards nominations. She also played Jane in The Beguiled.

Marvel and Other Major Projects

Angourie played Betty Brant in the 2017 movie Spider-Man: Homecoming. She played this role again in the 2019 sequel Spider-Man: Far From Home. She also appeared as Betty Brant in the web series The Daily Bugle. She returned as Betty Brant in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

In 2018, Angourie starred in the romantic drama Every Day. She also played Lisa in the Australian film Ladies in Black. For this role, she won an AACTA award for Best Lead Actress.

In 2019, Angourie acted with Miley Cyrus in an episode of Black Mirror. This episode was described as a fun, sci-fi adventure. In 2021, Variety magazine named her one of the 'Actors to Watch'. She also played Siobhan in Mare of Easttown with Kate Winslet. She found the Philadelphia accent challenging but worked hard to learn it.

Recent Work and Other Interests

Angourie also hosts a podcast called The Community Library. She started it in 2019. The podcast aims to help people understand books better.

In 2022, Angourie was chosen to star with Jennifer Garner in the Apple TV+ series The Last Thing He Told Me. In December 2022, she was cast as Cady Heron in the movie version of the Broadway musical Mean Girls. This movie was released in theaters on January 12, 2024.

She also co-wrote a book called Stuck Up & Stupid with her mother, Kate Rice. The book was nominated for a Young Adult Indie Book Award in 2024.

Filmography

Film

Television

Web

See also

In Spanish: Angourie Rice para niños