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Georgina Campbell
English actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Georgina Campbell is an English actress. She won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Murdered by My Boyfriend (2014), making her the first black and first non-white actress to win that award. Her other television credits include Flowers (2016), Broadchurch (2017), the Black Mirror episode "Hang the DJ" (2017), Krypton (2018), and The Pale Horse (2020). She made her film debut with a minor role in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) and has starred in the horror films Barbarian (2022), Bird Box Barcelona (2023), T.I.M. (2023), Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023) and The Watchers (2024). In 2019, Campbell was featured on Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list.
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Early life and education
Campbell was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England,[1] to a white English mother[1] and a Jamaican father.[2] Her mother is a retired teacher and her father is a police officer.[1] She is the second of three daughters. After her parents divorced, she was primarily raised by her mother and stepfather in Dartford, Kent.[3] She spent her younger years in Wilmington.[1][4]
Campbell graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2014.[4][5][6]
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2009–2021
At 16, Campbell was scouted in the street for her first role as Lucy in the 2009 web series Freak.[3] She had minor roles in series such as Casualty, Holby City, Doctors, and Death in Paradise. Campbell was 22 when she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her role as Ashley Jones in the BBC Three television film Murdered by My Boyfriend (2014),[3] making her the first black[7][5] and first non-white Best Actress winner.[8]
In 2015, Campbell starred in the Sky 1 comedy drama After Hours as Jasmine.[3] The first season was directed by Craig Cash and was broadcast in November 2015. She had a lead role in the TV mini-series Tripped (2015), a supporting role in the BBC drama mini-series One of Us (2016), and she appeared in Channel 4 black comedy series Flowers (2016).[3]
In 2017, she made her film debut with a minor role in Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,[9] and appeared in the ITV drama series Broadchurch as DC Katie Harford, and in Black Mirror, series 4 episode 4, "Hang the DJ", as Amy.[8] In 2018, she began playing Lyta-Zod in Syfy drama series Krypton.[8] In 2019, she appeared in one episode of HBO's fantasy drama television series His Dark Materials.[10]
In February 2019, Campbell was featured on Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list.[7]
2022–present
In 2022, she starred in the critically acclaimed, commercially successful horror film Barbarian.[11][12]
In 2023, she co-starred in the post-apocalyptic horror thriller film Bird Box Barcelona,[13] in the sci-fi thriller T.I.M.,[14] and in the horror film Lovely, Dark, and Deep.[15][16]
In 2024, Campbell co-starred in the supernatural horror film The Watchers, directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan.[17]
In 2025, she will star in the horror thriller Influencers, directed by Kurtis David Harder.[18] In 2026, she will star in the horror thrillers Psycho Killer, directed by Gavin Polone,[19] and Cold Storage, directed by Jonny Campbell.[20]
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Filmography
Film
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