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Born	Imogen Gay Poots (1989-06-03) 3 June 1989 (age 35) Hammersmith, London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2004–present

Imogen Gay Poots (born 3 June 1989) is an English actress. She played Tammy in the post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Weeks Later (2007), Linda Keith in the Jimi Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013), Debbie Raymond in the Paul Raymond biopic The Look of Love (2013), and Julia Maddon in the American action film Need for Speed (2014). Also in 2014, she portrayed Jess Crichton in A Long Way Down, alongside Pierce Brosnan and Aaron Paul. She appeared as Isabella "Izzy" Patterson in Peter Bogdanovich's She's Funny That Way. In 2016, she starred as Kelly Ann in the Showtime series Roadies. In 2019, she co-starred with Jesse Eisenberg in the films Vivarium and The Art of Self-Defense. In 2020, she played Laura in The Father (2020). In 2022, she began playing the role of the mysterious Autumn in the Prime Video science fiction neo-Western series Outer Range.

Early life and education

Imogen Gay Poots was born in June 1989 at the Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of Trevor Poots, a current affairs television producer from Belfast, and Fiona Goodall, a journalist and voluntary worker from Brighton. She has an older brother.

Raised in Chiswick, West London, Poots was privately educated, attending Bute House Preparatory School for Girls in Brook Green, Queen's Gate School in South Kensington, and Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith. While intending to become a veterinary surgeon, she began spending Saturdays at an improvisation workshop hosted by the Young Blood Theatre Company at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. She abandoned her original career aspiration after fainting at the sight of veterinary surgery during work experience.

Attaining three A grades at A-level, she won a place at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2008, but had it deferred for two years in order to pursue her acting career.

Career

Poots at the Fright Night panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2011

Poots first appeared on-screen in a 2004 episode of Casualty and had a non-speaking role in 2006's V for Vendetta, but she was largely unknown when, at the age of 17, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo cast her in the horror film 28 Weeks Later, released in 2007. Since then, she has appeared in films such as Cracks (2009), Centurion (2010), and as the female lead in the 2011 remake of Fright Night alongside Anton Yelchin. Although Poots has never formally trained as an actress, according to Giles Hattersley, she developed her acting skills through a practical apprenticeship that may have served her well, as she is "compellingly natural" in front of the camera.

In 2011, she was chosen by fashion house Chloé to appear in a campaign for its eponymous fragrance shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. In 2012, she was selected to star in a Sofia Coppola-directed advertising campaign for a collaboration between fashion label Marni and high street retailer H&M.

In 2012, Poots played the acrimonious young violinist Alexandra Gelbart opposite Catherine Keener and Philip Seymour Hoffman in A Late Quartet. In 2013, she appeared in Greetings from Tim Buckley, Filth, The Look of Love, and portrayed Linda Keith in the Jimi Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is by My Side, alongside André Benjamin as Hendrix. In 2014, Poots starred in the romantic comedy That Awkward Moment and the action film Need for Speed, an adaptation of the video game series, and played Jess in the black comedy A Long Way Down. In 2015, she appeared opposite Owen Wilson in She's Funny That Way with Jennifer Aniston and Knight of Cups with Cate Blanchett, has been cast in the adaptation of Jess Walter's novel Beautiful Ruins, and reunited with Yelchin for Green Room. In 2016, she starred as Kelly Ann in the Showtime series Roadies.

In 2017, she played Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which was broadcast via National Theatre Live on 18 May 2017 from the Harold Pinter Theatre in the London West End. Also that year, Poots starred in the Amy Herzog play Belleville at the Donmar Warehouse opposite James Norton.

She played Lady Rose Dugdale, a wealthy and cultured member of the British upper class-turned-Provisional IRA member, in the 2023 film Baltimore.

Personal life

Poots was engaged to actor James Norton, but they later ended their relationship after six years.

Acting credits

Film

Title	Year	Role	Notes
2005	V for Vendetta	Young Valerie Page
2007	28 Weeks Later	Tammy Harris
	Wish	Jane	Short film
2008	Me and Orson Welles	Lorelei Lathrop
2009	Cracks	Poppy
	Waking Madison	Alexis
	Solitary Man	Allyson Karsch
2010	Centurion	Arianne
	Chatroom	Eva
2011	Jane Eyre	Blanche Ingram
	Fright Night	Amy Peterson
	Comes a Bright Day	Mary Bright
2012	A Late Quartet	Alexandra Gelbart
2013	Greetings from Tim Buckley	Allie
	Jimi: All Is by My Side	Linda Keith
	Filth	Amanda Drummond
	The Look of Love	Debbie Raymond
2014	That Awkward Moment	Ellie Andrews
	A Long Way Down	Jess Crichton
	Need for Speed	Julia Maddon
	She's Funny That Way	Isabella Patterson
2015	Knight of Cups	Della
	Green Room	Amber
	A Country Called Home	Ellie
2016	Frank & Lola	Lola
	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	Ashley Wednesday
	Killing for Love	Elizabeth Haysom	Voice; documentary
2017	Have Had	Grace	Short film
	Sweet Virginia	Lila
	Mobile Homes	Ali
	I Kill Giants	Karen
2018	Age Out	Joan
2019	The Art of Self-Defense	Anna
	Vivarium	Gemma	Also executive producer
	Castle in the Ground	Ana
	Black Christmas	Riley Stone
2020	The Father	Laura
	French Exit	Susan
2023	Baltimore	Rose Dugdale
	The Teacher	Lisa
2024	All of You	Laura
TBA	Hedda	TBA	Post-production
	The Chronology of Water	Lidia Yuknavitch	Post-production

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Stage

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Imogen Poots para niños