Linguistic exchanges
Franco-British actress Emma Mackey, 25, navigates between French and English productions. Revealed by the series Sex Education, whose third season will be broadcast from September 17 on Netflix, she plays, in the language of Shakespeare, a high school student who helps his friend Otis to become the sex therapist of his high school. In France, the public will be able to discover it on October 13 in the film with a 23 million euros budget. Eiffel, by Martin Bourboulon. She plays the role of Adrienne Bourgès, the youthful love of Gustave Eiffel (played by Romain Duris), and who would have inspired her to build her tower.
Birmingham-sur-Sarthe
Born to a French father, a school principal and an English mother working in charity, she grew up in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, bathed in British culture: BBC, Jane Austen’s novels, trips to England… She often visited his grandparents in Birmingham, where he had a passion for theatrical performances and musicals. An education so british for the one who finished shooting the biographical film in May Emily, directed by Frances O’Connor. Emma Mackey plays Emily Brontë, the author of Stormwind heights.
“London calling”
At the antipodes of the rebellious teenager that she embodies in Sex Education, Emma Mackey’s education in a Catholic establishment in Sablé-sur-Sarthe is a model of discipline. Her goal: to cross the Channel to study and become an actress. Her literary baccalaureate with high honors, she enrolled in 2013 at the University of Leeds and became a member of the faculty’s theatrical troupe, before moving to London in 2016. The same year, she was featured in the horror short film Badger lane, before being spotted by Netflix in 2018, a platform that can now boast of launching careers.
Paris won
When the first season of Sex Education, in January 2019, success is immediate. She is invited to Paris fashion week by Olivier Rousteing, artistic director of the Balmain house. And chain the magazine covers, Glamour, Grazia, The official or, lately, She. A noticeable return to France, which surprised her herself. In 2020, she declared to Release : “I have rejected France all my life. It’s complicated to fully accept these two cultures. I thought I had to choose. “