Emma Mackey

Actor

Birthdate: Jan 4, 1996

Birthplace: Le Mans, France

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.

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Personal life

Emma Mackey was born in Le Mans, France as Emma Tachard-Mackey and raised in nearby Sabie-sur-Sarthe by her parents, father Philippe (head schoolmaster) and British-born Rachel. Mackey attended and graduated with High Honours from L’Academie de Nantes in 2013. Mackey then moved to the U.K., where she majored in English language and literature at the University of Leeds, from which she graduated in 2016. Mackey’s height is 5’ 8½ ”. Mackey’s estimated net worth is $2 million.

Known For

Barbie

(2023)

Death on the Nile

(2022)

Eiffel

(2021)

Emma Mackey Movies

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2026 |
Alpha
Alpha
2026
R
2h 8m
Drama, Horror
6.1
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
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2025 |
Ella McCay
Ella McCay
2025
PG-13
1h 55m
Comedy, Drama
An idealistic young woman juggles her family and work life in a comedy about the people you love and how to survive them.
asElla McCay
2025 |
Hot Milk
Hot Milk
2025
R
1h 32m
Drama
5.5
With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother.
asSofia
2023 |
Barbie
Barbie
2023
PG-13
1h 54m
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
6.8
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
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2023 |
Emily
Emily
2023
R
2h 10m
Biography, Drama, History, Romance
6.8
"Emily" imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers, who died, too soon, at age 30.
asEmily Brontë
2022 |
Eiffel
Eiffel
2022
R
1h 48m
Biography, Drama, History, Romance
6.2
The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from Arun's past.
asAdrienne Bourgès
2020 |
The Winter Lake

Facts About Emma Mackey

Dual Citizen: Emma Mackey is a joint citizen of France and the United Kingdom.

Goddess: Mackey was selected to appear as the Burburry Goddess in 2024 commercials and ads for Burburry’s perfume.

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