Chloe Pirrie

Chloe Pirrie born August 25 1987 is a Scottish actress She has played main roles in the 2014 miniseries The Game the 2012 film Shell and the 2015 television film An Inspector Calls She has also appeared in the 2016 miniseries War Peace the 2015 film Youth the 2015 film Blood Cells and a 2013 episode of Black Mirror In 2015 she also costarred in the Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film Stutterer Pirrie was raised in Stockbridge Edinburgh and attended the Mary Erskine School She began acting in school and decided to pursue it as a career after being cast in a school production of The Cherry Orchard She moved to London at the age of 18 to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and graduated in 2009 Pirries professional acting career began in 2009 She made her debut at the Royal National Theatre in a 2010 production of Men Should Weep alongside numerous other Scottish actors Shortly afterwards she appeared in Solstice a short film released in 2010 Her first role in a feature film was in Shell 2012 a Scottish drama in which Pirrie played the eponymous main character For this performance she won Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2013 and was nominated for Best British Newcomer at the 2012 BFI London Film Festival Awards In 2013 she played a politician in The Waldo Moment an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror In the same year she was named as one of BAFTAs Breakthrough Brits and Screen Internationals UK Stars of Tomorrow In 2014 Pirrie starred in the BBC miniseries The Game a Cold War spy thriller in which she played an MI5 secretary The following year she appeared as Sheila Birling in Helen Edmundsons BBC One adaptation of J B Priestleys An Inspector Calls in the miniseries The Last Panthers the British independent film Burn Burn Burn and the Italian film Youth In 2015 she starred as Ellie in the Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film Stutterer Ellie is the love interest for Greenwood played by Matthew Needham Greenwood has a major stuttering problem and cant speak effectively causing him to panic when Ellie suggests they take what had only been an online relationship offline to meet in person After finally giving in Greenwood learns a secret about Ellie that changes everything She played Julie Karagina in the 2016 BBC miniseries War Peace and was cast as Emily Brontë in To Walk Invisible a BBC drama about the Brontë family created by Sally Wainwright She also starred in the Death In Paradise episode In The Footsteps Of A Killer as Grace Matlock an employee at the Saint Marie Times She also plays Lara in the 2016 BBC thriller series The Living and the Dead In 2017 she starred in the Netflix series The Crown for its second season playing Eileen Parker In 2018 she appeared in the BBCNetflix miniseries Troy Fall of a City