Multi-award-winning actress Andrea Riseborough has an extensive film, television, theatrical CV and continues to captivate audiences and earn critical acclaim with each role. Riseborough is a graduate of the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is proudly one of the founding members as well as an ambassador for the TIME’S UP movement. Riseborough
Multi-award-winning actress Andrea Riseborough has an extensive film, television, theatrical CV and continues to captivate audiences and earn critical acclaim with each role. Riseborough is a graduate of the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is proudly one of the founding members as well as an ambassador for the TIME’S UP movement. Riseborough was recently in Lone Scherfig’s The Kindness of Strangers, which opened the 2019 Berlin Film Festival earlier last year alongside Zoe Kazan and Bill Nighy. Currently, Riseborough has newly completed filming on Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller Possessor, set to be released next year. Riseborough will star in Nicolas Pesce’s reboot of The Grudge opposite Betty Gilpin and John Cho released earlier this year. She can also be seen playing the title character in Nancy, which premiered in competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the prestigious Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. The film was also nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards in the categories of Best Supporting Female (J. Smith Cameron) and Best First Screenplay (Christina Choe). She was also awarded Best Actress at the Sitges Film Festival. Riseborough has earned momentous critical praise for her performance in the title role opposite Steve Buscemi, Ann Dowd and John Leguizamo in the film, which she also produced under her production banner, Mother Sucker.
Riseborough appeared in four feature films that premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, playing the title character in both Nancy as well as Mandy opposite Nicolas Cage. She also stars in Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin, which also premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017, playing the role of Svetlana Stalin alongside Rupert Friend and Steve Buscemi. Riseborough’s performance garnered a 2017 British Independent Film Award nomination and, more recently, the film was ranked as one of the Top Ten Independent Films of 2018 by the National Board of Review. She also starred in Burden, alongside Garrett Hedlund and Forrest Whitaker.
Previously, Riseborough featured in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Battle Of The Sexes as Marilyn Barnett alongside Emma Stone and Steve Carell; Tom Ford’s Oscar-nominated Nocturnal Animals; Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman (she shared, with her fellow actors, the Screen Actors Guild Award and over a dozen other honors with ensemble cast Michael Keaton, Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Amy Ryan and Emma Stone. The film won four Academy Awards including Best Picture).
On the small screen, she recently appeared in Paramount Network’s six-part limited series Waco alongside Taylor Kitsch, Michael Shannon and John Leguizamo. Riseborough also recently featured in John Hillcoat’s newest episode of the fourth season of Netflix’s critically acclaimed drama Black Mirror and also played a leading role in the Channel 4 mini-series National Treasure alongside Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters. Riseborough can also be seen in Netflix’s well-received drama Bloodline opposite Sissy Spacek and John Leguizamo as well as in Julian Jarrold’s BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Witness for The Prosecution.
Riseborough’s other notable credits include Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go; Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion opposite Tom Cruise; Madonna’s W.E. as Wallis Simpson; Nigel Cole’s Made In Dagenham; Rowan Joffe’s Brighton Rock; Amit Gupta’s Resistance; Henry Alex Rubin’s Disconnect; Eran Creevy’s Welcome To The Punch; Corinna McFarlane’s The Silent Storm; the Duffer Brothers’ Hidden and James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer, opposite Clive Owen, for which Riseborough won the British Independent Film Award (BIFA), the Evening Standard British Film Award, and the London Critics’ Circle Film Award for Best Actress. Riseborough was also nominated for a BAFTA for her portrayal of a young Margaret Thatcher in the BBC’s Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley.
