Aisling Franciosi
Birthdate: Mar 3, 1993
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Aisling Franciosi is an acclaimed Irish-Italian actor who, while best known for her TV work in TNT’s Legends (2015), as Lyanna Stark in episodes of Game of Thrones (2016-2017), the BBC-produced Clique (2017), and the Nat Geo-produced Genius: Picasso (2018), has developed a fascinating screen career. Franciosi’s big-screen debut was in a supporting role in Ken Loach’s drama, Jimmy’s Hall (2014), with Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, and Jim Norton, and which premiered in the Palme d’Or competition at the Cannes film festival.
After acting in short films produced for the European Space Agency, Franciosi starred in an extraordinary performance in writer-director Jennifer Kent’s powerful Australian historical drama, The Nightingale (2018), with Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, and Michael Sheasby, and winning the Special Jury Lion Prize in its Venice film festival premiere, and released by IFC Films.
For her next big-screen role, Aisling Franciosi joined fellow actor Franka Potente in her debut as director-writer of Home (2020), a German-French-Dutch co-production starring Jake McLaughlin, Kathy Bates, Derek Richardson, and Stephen Root, and premiering at the Rome film festival. Franciosi co-starred opposite Emily Watson and Paul Mescal in the UK/Irish drama, God’s Creatures (2022), co-directed by Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer and premiering in competition in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight before worldwide release by A24.
Franciosi’s first Hollywood movie role was in the adaptation of a chapter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Universal/DreamWorks’ The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023), co-starring Corey Hawkins, Liam Cunningham, and David Dastmalchian. Franciosi earned a starring role in her second consecutive horror movie, director/co-writer Robert Morgan’s Stopmotion (date to be announced), with Tom York, Caoilinn Springall, and Jaz Hutchins. Franciosi then starred in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s drama, Rothko (2024), with Russell Crowe, Jared Harris, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Michael Stuhlbarg.
Personal Details
Aisling Franciosi was born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in her early years in Milan, Italy by her Italian father (heart surgeon) and Irish mother (teacher). Franciosi was raised bilingually in Italian and English. Franciosi’s parents divorced when she was five years old, and she moved to Ireland with her mother and her two older brothers and younger sister. Soon after acting for the first time when she was six, Franciosi aspired to be an actor. Franciosi majored in French and Spanish at Trinity College Dublin, from which she graduated. Franciosi moved to New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood in 2018. Franciosi’s height is 5’ 4”.
Filmography
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- 2024 | Speak No EvilasCiara
Speak No Evil
A family is invited to spend a weekend in an idyllic country house, unaware that their dream vacation will soon become a psychological nightmare.
- 2024 | StopmotionasElla Blake
Stopmotion
A stop-motion animator struggles to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother.
- 2023 | Last Voyage of the Demeter
Last Voyage of the Demeter
Based on a single chapter, the Captain's Log, from Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel Dracula, the story is set aboard the Russian schooner Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo - twenty-four unmarked wooden crates - f...
- 2018 | Nightingale, The (2018)
Nightingale, The (2018)
Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
Some Facts About Aisling Franciosi
Multi-lingual: Aisling Franciosi is fluent in four languages, including English, Spanish, French, and Italian.
Statement of Artistic Principles: Franciosi has stated that “I would like to be considered an actor, first and foremost, rather than a starlet or a celebrity.”
