Profile: Eliza Scanlen
Breakout Star of Sharp Objects Has A Great Slate Lined Up
She wowed you with her breakout performance as Amma Crellin, the terrifying half-sister of Amy Adams’ Camille Preaker in Sharp Objects, for which she was named one of the “10 Rising Television Stars” by The Hollywood Reporter, Eliza Scanlen has a great slate lined up.
Born January 6, 1999, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia this 20-year-old actress (who also happens to be a fraternal twin) was propelled to Australian fame as a teen when she was cast as Tabitha Ford in the Australian soap opera Home and Away—a show which has launched the careers of many Australian stars including Chris Hemsworth. From there, she made her way to the states where she was immediately noticed for her ability to shine while acting opposite the likes of Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson.
Soon she will be making her big screen debut in Greta Gerwig’s much-hyped Little Women. Scanlen will be acting alongside Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, and Florence Pugh. The film is an adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel of the same name, which follows the lives of the four March sisters in Massachusetts in the 1800s. Scanlen will be portraying Beth March, the third of four sisters in the March family.
In addition to Little Women, Scanlen will be working alongside Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, and Riley Keough in Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The TimeI, an ensemble piece set between the end of World War II and the 1960s. She also took the plunge and shaved her head for her role in Babyteeth, where she plays Milla, a very ill teenage girl who falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.
With such an interesting slate of new projects on the horizon, Scanlen seems poised to continue to stun us with her performances.
