Eliza Scanlen
Birthday: Born in 1999-01-06 in Sydney, Australia
Deathday: Alive
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.
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Fires
Character: Natasha 'Tash' Jasic
Inspired by true events, the story of everyday Australians at the front line of the devastating fires of the 2019-2020 Australian summer....
Home and Away
Character: Tabitha
Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family....
Sharp Objects
Character: Amma Crellin
Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls....
Fires
Character: Natasha Jasic
Inspired by true events, the story of everyday Australians at the front line of the devastating fires of the 2019-2020 Australian summer....
The First Lady
Character: Young Eleanor Roosevelt
A revelatory reframing of American leadership through the lens of the First Ladies. Exploring everything from their journeys to Washington, family life, and world-changing political contributions, the impact of the White House's women is no longer hidden from view....
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The Starling Girl
Character: Jem Starling
17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church....
Body of Water
Character:
The short film was filmed during the directors' stay at the Eranos Foundation in Ascona-Moscia in the context of the Locarno Residency...
Little Women
Character: Beth March
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War....
Grace
Character: Grace
A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her Elders, when she strikes up an innocent relationship with a boy....
Babyteeth
Character: Milla
A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer....
The Devil All the Time
Character: Lenora Laferty
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family....
Lacuna
Character: Zoe
There's always an irreparable gap left by the loss of someone you love. Calvin is constantly reminded of the gap Zoe created when she killed the only person he really had. For Zoe, Calvin is just a reminder of a past she wants to forget. But then again, maybe nothing's ever truly irreparable....
Love and Other Places
Character: Claude
A young girl momentarily escapes from the mundanities of her life and ultimately realizes what truly matters to her....
Old
Character: Kara Aged 15
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day....
Caddo Lake
Character: Ellie
When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history....
National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest
Character: Cecily Cardew
Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade. Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate....