About Emma Mackey
Emma Margaret Marie Tachard-Mackey (born 4 January 1996) is a British-French actress. She is widely known for her breakthrough performance as troubled teenager Maeve Wiley in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education (2019–2023) which earned her the nomination for the British Academy Television Award. Mackey has since starred in the mystery film Death on the Nile (2022) and portrayed Emily Brontë in the drama film Emily (2022). She won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2023. == Early life and education == Tachard-Mackey was born 4 January 1996 in Le Mans, the daughter of a French father and an English mother. Her father is a school headmaster. She grew up in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, and received her baccalauréat in 2013 in l'académie de Nantes, a French school district, subsequently moving to England to study English language and literature at the University of Leeds. She graduated in 2016. == Career == Mackey was cast in her first professional role with the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education as Maeve Wiley, an intelligent, quick-witted, business-savvy "bad girl" who persuades fellow student Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) to start an underground sex therapy business at their school.
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