About Jodie Comer
Jodie Comer ( KOH-mər; born 11 March 1993) is an English actress of screen and stage. Her accolades include two British Academy Television Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Tony Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and two nominations for a Golden Globe Award. Comer gained recognition for appearing in the series My Mad Fat Diary (2013–2015) and Doctor Foster (2015–2017), and starred in the drama miniseries Thirteen (2016). From 2018 to 2022, Comer played sociopathic assassin Villanelle in the BBC America spy thriller television series Killing Eve, winning a BAFTA Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. For playing Sarah, a healthcare assistant, in the television film Help (2021), she won another BAFTA Television Award. Following a successful television career, Comer appeared in film roles. She has appeared in the action comedy film Free Guy (2021), historical drama The Last Duel (2021), The Bikeriders (2023), the environmental thriller The End We Start From (2023) and horror film 28 Years Later (2025). In April 2022, Comer made her West End theatre debut in Suzie Miller's one-woman play Prima Facie, and made her Broadway theatre debut in April 2023, when the play transferred to New York; she earned Best Actress in a Play for both performances, winning the Laurence Olivier Award in London in April 2023 and the Tony Award in New York in two months later. Through CALS, Comer entered the Liverpool Performing Arts Festival in 2006 at St George's Hall and came first in her category after performing a monologue about the Hillsborough disaster. This became her first acting job, with her co-stars advising her to get an agent and telling her that she could have a successful acting career. Her first starring role was in 2016 as Ivy Moxam in the BBC Three miniseries Thirteen, which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
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