BAFTA Cymru winner Morfydd Clark has firmly established herself as one of the industry’s most compelling and interesting actors working today, starring in critically acclaimed stage, television and film productions and working with the most accomplished creative talents in the industry.
Coming up, Clark will star in the supernatural horror film Starve Acre, from writer and director Daniel Kokotajlo, with Matt Smith. She will also start work on Riz Ahmed’s adaptation of Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ahmed’s Hamlet and Joe Alywn’s Laertes. Aneil Karia is set to direct from a script by Michael Lesslie. She is currently in production on the second season
BAFTA Cymru winner Morfydd Clark has firmly established herself as one of the industry’s most compelling and interesting actors working today, starring in critically acclaimed stage, television and film productions and working with the most accomplished creative talents in the industry.
Coming up, Clark will star in the supernatural horror film Starve Acre, from writer and director Daniel Kokotajlo, with Matt Smith. She will also start work on Riz Ahmed’s adaptation of Hamlet, playing Ophelia opposite Ahmed’s Hamlet and Joe Alywn’s Laertes. Aneil Karia is set to direct from a script by Michael Lesslie. She is currently in production on the second season of Amazon’s hit television adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which will premiere in 2024.
In 2020, Clark starred in the title role in Rose Glass’s extraordinary feature debut Saint Maud. The psychological thriller, co-financed by Film4 and the BFI, garnered international recognition and critical acclaim after its theatrical release by Studio Canal in the UK in October, followed by A24 in the US early in 2021. Clark was nominated for a British Independent Film Award in the Best Actress category and was longlisted in the same category by the BAFTAs. She won British/Irish Actress of The Year at The London Critics Circle Awards and was nominated for Actress of the Year. She was also nominated for a prestigious EE BAFTA Rising Star Award. She won the Best Actress award at the 2021 BAFTA Cyrmu Awards.
Other notable credits include Craig Robert’s Eternal Beauty, Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, BBC/Netflix three-part series Dracula by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, the first season of Jack Thorne’s television adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, China Miéville’s The City And The City, Channel 4’s New Worlds, The Call Up, Aisling Walsh’s A Poet In New York, Sophie Barthe’s Madame Bovary, Burr Steers’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Showtime/SKY Atlantic’s Patrick Melrose, Paramount’s Crawl and Carol Morley’s feature The Falling.
