Emma Mackey (birthname: Emma Margaret Marie Tachard-Mackey) has appeared in a range of both French and English-language movies, making her feature debut in the Irish-Canadian mystery,
The Winter Lake (2020), co-starring Anson Boon, Mark McKenna, Charlie Murphy, and Michael McElhatton under Phil Sheerin’s direction and written by David Turpin. Mackey co-starred with Romain Duris (in the title role) in the French romantic biopic,
Eiffel (2021), with Pierre Deladonchamps in support under Martin Bourboulon’s direction, and which was produced and released by Pathe Distribution to a $13.6 million gross.
Mackey joined the large ensemble of director/producer/co-star
Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie adaptation,
Death on the Nile (2022), co-starring Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand,
Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders and
Letitia Wright, produced by
Ridley Scott, Judy Hofflund and Kevin J. Walsh, and earning over $137 million for distributor 20
th Century Fox. Mackey starred as author Emily Brontë in director/writer Frances O’Connor’s fictionalized biopic debut,
Emily (2022), with Fionn Whitehead, Oliver Jackson-Coh, and Gemma Jones, produced by Embankment Films/Ingenious Media/Tempo Productions/Arenamedia and released by Warner Bros. Pictures to a $4 million box office.
Emma Mackey played Physicist Barbie in director/writer
Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster hit,
Barbie (2023), co-written by
Noah Baumbach and starring
Margot Robbie and
Ryan Gosling, with
America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Will Ferrell,
Simu Liu, Michael Cera, backed in part by Mattel Films and becoming the highest-grossing movie released in 2023 with a $1.44 billion return for distributor Warner Bros. Pictures. Mackey co-starred with Fiona Shaw and Vicky Krieps in director/writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s screen version of Deborah Levy’s 2016 novel,
Hot Milk (2025), with Vincent Perez, Patsy Ferran, and Yann Gael, and which premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival and was released by Mubi.
Mackey was cast by French director/writer Julia Ducournau in the French-Belgian body horror movie,
Alpha (2025), co-starring
Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, and Melissa Boros, but received a mixed response in its premiere in competition in the Main Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, and was then released in France by Diaphana Distribution. Mackey had her first starring role in a Hollywood movie with director/writer/producer
James L. Brooks’s political comedy-drama,
Ella McCay (2025), co-starring
Jamie Lee Curtis, with Jack Lowden,
Kumail Nanjiani,
Ayo Edebiri, Julie Kavner, Spike Fearn,
Rebecca Hall, Albert Brooks and
Woody Harrelson, produced by Brooks’s Gracie Films and distributed theatrically by 20
th Century Studios.
Emma Mackey reunited with director/writer Greta Gerwig and in the role of the White Witch led the cast of the C.S. Lewis fantasy adaptation,
Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew (2026), based on Lewis’ first book in his
The Chronicles of Narnia series, co-starring
Carey Mulligan, Denise Gough and Daniel Craig, and released in theaters and on streaming by Netflix. Mackey joined co-stars
Glen Powell,
Jenna Ortega, and
Samuel L. Jackson in director/writer/producer J.J. Abrams’s first non-franchise movie in fifteen years,
Ghostwriter (date to be announced), backed by Abrams’s Bad Robot and distributor Warner Bros. Pictures.