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McKenzie in 2024
Born	Thomasin Katherin Helen Harcourt McKenzie July 26, 2000 (age 24) Wellington, New Zealand
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2012–present
Parent(s)	Miranda Harcourt (mother)
Relatives	Kate Harcourt (maternal grandmother)

Thomasin Katherin Helen Harcourt McKenzie (born July 26, 2000) is a New Zealand actress. After a minor role in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), she rose to critical prominence for playing a young girl living in isolation in Debra Granik's drama film Leave No Trace (2018), winning the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance.

McKenzie continued gaining recognition in 2019 with supporting roles in the period films The King and True History of the Kelly Gang, as well as for her role as a Jewish girl in the satirical film Jojo Rabbit. In 2021, she starred in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Old and Edgar Wright's psychological horror film Last Night in Soho, and featured in Jane Campion's western film The Power of the Dog. She has since played the title role in the thriller Eileen (2023).

Early life

McKenzie was born 26 July 2000 in Wellington, New Zealand, and attended Samuel Marsden Collegiate School in Wellington's Karori suburb, graduating in 2018. Her parents are actress and acting coach Dame Miranda Harcourt, and director Stuart McKenzie. She is the granddaughter of actress Dame Kate Harcourt and Peter Harcourt, whose family founded the real estate company Harcourts International in Wellington.

She has an elder brother, Peter McKenzie, and a younger sister, actress Davida McKenzie.

Career

After appearing with her brother in the film Existence (2012), McKenzie portrayed teenager Louise Nicholas in the television film Consent: The Louise Nicholas Story (2014). In 2015, she played Pixie Hannah in the soap opera Shortland Street. The following year, she played the titular character in the children's comedy web series Lucy Lewis Can't Lose.

She gained recognition for her portrayal as a daughter of a war veteran in Debra Granik's Leave No Trace (2018). Her performance received critical acclaim and won her the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance. In 2019, McKenzie joined the ensemble cast of Netflix's The King as Queen Philippa of Denmark, starring alongside Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton and Robert Pattinson. She next played the role of a young Jewish girl who hides in the home of the title character in Taika Waititi's satirical comedy-drama Jojo Rabbit (2019) which she obtained a nomination at the Critics' Choice Movie Award as Best Young Actress.

In August 2018, McKenzie was cast in Top Gun: Maverick, but dropped out of the film after signing onto Lost Girls (2020). In 2021, she starred in the M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Old, and played the lead character in Edgar Wright's psychological horror film Last Night in Soho, opposite Anya Taylor-Joy. In the same year, she joined John Crowley's televised adaptation of Kate Atkinson's novel Life After Life for BBC Two, which premiered in 2022.

In 2023, McKenzie joined the main cast of the second season of Pantheon, a science fiction drama adaptation of the series of short stories by Ken Liu, voicing MIST, the first C.I. (computational intelligence) born of U.I. (uploaded intelligence). In the same year, she played the lead character in the William Oldroyd's psychological thriller Eileen, opposite Anne Hathaway and will portray American gymnast Kerri Strug in Olivia Wilde's Perfect.

McKenzie will portray English embryologist Jean Purdy in the upcoming 2024 film Joy, based on the true story of the world’s first in vitro fertilisation baby. In May 2023, McKenzie joined in the lead role for Mona Fastvold's upcoming psychological horror Self-Portrait. In the same month, McKenzie joined Andrew Niccol's upcoming live-action animated film I, Object. In September 2023, McKenzie joined Jim O'Hanlon's upcoming British period comedy Fackham Hall, written by comedian Jimmy Carr.

Personal life

In March 2017, McKenzie was living in Wellington, New Zealand. McKenzie moved to London, United Kingdom, in June 2023.

Filmography

Key

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Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Existence	Scraps
2014	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Astrid
2017	The Changeover	Rose Keaton
2018	Leave No Trace	Tom
2019	The King	Queen Philippa of Denmark
	Jojo Rabbit	Elsa Korr
	True History of the Kelly Gang	Mary
2020	Lost Girls	Sherre Gilbert
2021	The Justice of Bunny King	Tonyah
	Old	Maddox Cappa (aged 16)
	Last Night in Soho	Eloise "Ellie" Turner
	The Power of the Dog	Lola
2023	Eileen	Eileen Dunlop
2024	Joy	Jean Purdy
TBA	Fackham Hall		In Production
	I, Object		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Consent: The Louise Nicholas Story	Young Louise	Television film
2015–2020	Shortland Street	Pixie Hannah	Recurring role
2015	End of Term	Annabel	1 episode
2016	Bright Summer Night	Petra Quince	4 episodes
2016	Jean	Young Jean	Television film
2017	The Cul De Sac	Willa	3 episodes
2016	Lucy Lewis Can't Lose	Lucy Lewis	Lead role
2022	Life After Life	Ursula Todd	Miniseries
2023	Totally Completely Fine	Vivian Cunningham	Lead role
2023	Pantheon	MIST (voice)	Main role; season 2
TBA	Gossamer	TBA	Filming; voice role

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Thomasin McKenzie para niños