Imogen Poots
Biography
Imogen Gay Poots is an English actress and model born on June 3, 1989, in London, England. Her film credits include playing Tammy in the 2007 post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Weeks Later, Linda Keith in the Jimi Hendrix biopic Jimi All Is by My Side in 2013, and Debbie Raymond in the Paul Raymond biopic The Look of Love also in 2013. In 2014, she portrayed Julia Maddon in the American action film Need for Speed and Jesse Crichton in A Long Way Down alongside Pierce Brosnan and Aaron Paul. In 2016, she starred as Kelly Ann in the Showtime series Roadies. In 2020, she played Laura in The Father, which starred Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman.
Career overview
Imogen Gay Poots is an English actress and model who was born on June 3, 1989, in London, England, United Kingdom. Early in her film career, she played Tammy in the 2007 post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Weeks Later. She later portrayed Linda Keith in the 2013 Jimi Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is by My Side and Debbie Raymond in the Paul Raymond biopic The Look of Love, which was also released in 2013.
Continuing her film work, Poots appeared as Julia Maddon in the 2014 American action film Need for Speed. Also in 2014, she portrayed Jesse Crichton in A Long Way Down, starring alongside Pierce Brosnan and Aaron Paul. Transitioning to television in 2016, she starred as Kelly Ann in the Showtime series Roadies.
In 2020, Poots played Laura in the film The Father, which starred Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. Throughout her career, she has accumulated numerous acting credits in both film and television.
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- The Chronology of Water (2025) as Lidia Yuknavitch
- All of You (2025) as Laura
- Hedda (2025) as Thea Clifton
- Baltimore (2024) as Rose Dugdale
- The Teacher (2024) as Lisa
- Outer Range (2022) as Autumn Rivers
- French Exit (2021) as Susan
- Castle in the Ground (2021) as Ana
- The Father (2020) as Laura
- I Know This Much Is True (2020) as Joy Hanks
- Vivarium (2019) as Gemma
- Vivarium (2019) Executive Producer
- The Art of Self-Defense (2019) as Anna
- Black Christmas (2019) as Riley Stone
- Age Out (2018) as Joan
- I Kill Giants (2017) as Karen Thorson
- Sweet Virginia (2017) as Lila Mccabe
- Have Had (2017) as Grace
- Mobile Homes (2017) as Ali
- National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2017) as Honey
- Roadies (2016) as Kelly Ann Mason
- Green Room (2016) as Amber
- Killing for Love (2016) as Elizabeth Haysom (voice)
- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) as Ashley Wednesday
- Frank & Lola (2016) as Lola
- A Country Called Home (2016) as Ellie Edwards
- She's Funny That Way (2015) as Isabella Patterson
- Knight of Cups (2015) as Della
- Off Camera with Sam Jones (2014) as Self
- Need for Speed (2014) as Julia Maddon
- That Awkward Moment (2014) as Ellie Andrews
- A Long Way Down (2014) as Jess Crichton
- The Last Leg (2013) as Self
- Filth (2013) as Drummond
- The Look of Love (2013) as Debbie Raymond
- Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013) as Linda Keith
- Greetings from Tim Buckley (2013) as Allie
- A Late Quartet (2012) as Alexandra Gelbart
- Comes a Bright Day (2012) as Mary Bright
- Jane Eyre (2011) as Blanche Ingram
- Fright Night (2011) as Amy Petersen
- Christopher and His Kind (2011) as Jean Ross
- Waking Madison (2011) as Alexis
- Rule Number Three (2011) as Rachel
- Centurion (2010) as Arianne
- Chatroom (2010) as Eva
- Bouquet of Barbed Wire (2010) as Prue Sorenson
- Cracks (2009) as Poppy
- Solitary Man (2009) as Allyson Karsch
- Me and Orson Welles (2008) as Lorelei Lathrop
- Miss Austen Regrets (2008) as Fanny Austen Knight
- 28 Weeks Later (2007) as Tammy Harris
- Wish (2007) as Jane
- V for Vendetta (2006) as Young Valerie
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) as Self
- Casualty (1986) as Alice Thornton
- The Sleeping Shepherd as Karoline
- Sex Criminals as Suze
- October
- The Salamander Lives Twice as Goggy