Andrea Riseborough

Biography

Andrea Louise Riseborough (born 20 November 1981) is an English actress and producer. She made her film debut with a small part in Venus (2006), and has since appeared in more prominent roles in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Never Let Me Go, Brighton Rock, Made in Dagenham (all 2010), W.E. (2011), Shadow Dancer, Disconnect (both 2012), Welcome to the Punch, Oblivion (both 2013), Birdman (2014), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Battle of the Sexes, The Death of Stalin (both 2017), Mandy, Nancy (both 2018), The Grudge, and Possessor (both 2020). For her performance as a recovering addict in the drama To Leslie (2022), Riseborough received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Outside of film, Riseborough received a BAFTA nomination for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the television film The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), and won critical acclaim for her performances in the Channel 4 miniseries The Devil's Whore (2008) and National Treasure (2016), as well as the BBC One miniseries The Witness for the Prosecution (2016). Her stage credits include August Strindberg's Miss Julie, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (Theatre Royal, Bath, both 2006) and Anton Chekhov's Ivanov (West End, 2008).

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Known For

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

The Graham Norton Show

Self

Black Mirror

Mia Nolan

Battle of the Sexes

Marilyn Barnett

Doc Martin

Nocturnal Animals

Alessia Holt

Bloodline

Evangeline Radosevich

Party Animals

Kirsty MacKenzie

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Dragonfly	Colleen
2024	Lee	Audrey Withers
2024	What Remains	Anna Rudbeck
2024	Funny Birds	Laura
2022	Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical	Mrs. Wormwood
2022	My Name Is Andrea	Lover
2022	Here Before	Laura
2022	Please Baby Please	Suze
2022	Amsterdam	Beatrice Vandenheuvel
2022	To Leslie	Leslie
2021	The Electrical Life of Louis Wain	Caroline Wain
2021	Luxor	Hana
2020	Burden	Judy
2020	Possessor	Tasya Vos
2020	A Heightened World
2020	Identity Crisis: Bringing Possessor to Life
2019	The Grudge	Detective Muldoon
2019	The Kindness of Strangers	Alice
2018	Nancy	Nancy Freeman
2018	Mandy	Mandy Bloom
2018	The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018	Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal	Self (archive footage)
2017	Shepherds and Butchers	Kathleen Marais
2017	Battle of the Sexes	Marilyn Barnett
2017	The Death of Stalin	Svetlana Stalin
2016	The Witness for the Prosecution
2016	Nocturnal Animals	Alessia Holt
2016	Mindhorn	DC Elena Baines
2015	That Dog	Stacey
2015	Hidden	Claire
2015	Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)	Self
2014	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Laura
2014	The Silent Storm	Aislin
2013	Oblivion	Victoria
2013	Welcome to the Punch	Sarah Hawks
2013	Disconnect	Nina Dunham
2012	Shadow Dancer	Colette McVeigh
2011	W.E.	Wallis Simpson
2011	Resistance	Sarah
2010	Never Let Me Go	Chrissie
2010	Brighton Rock	Rose
2010	Made in Dagenham	Brenda
2009	Mad Sad & Bad	Julia
2008	Happy-Go-Lucky	Dawn
2008	Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley	Margaret Thatcher
2008	Love You More	Georgia
2007	Magicians	Dani
2006	Venus	Period Film Lover
2006	The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton	Myra
2005	A Very Social Secretary	Amanda
2005	Whatever Love Means	Anna Wallace
	The Queen of Fashion	Isabella Blow
	The Noise of Time	Nina Shostakovich
	Good Boy	Kathryn
	Goodbye June

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	Alice & Jack	Alice Long
2024	The Regime	Agnes
2020	ZeroZeroZero	Emma Lynwood
2018	Waco	Judy Schneider
2016	National Treasure	Danielle 'Dee' Finchley
2016	The Witness for the Prosecution	Romaine Heilger
2015	Bloodline	Evangeline Radosevich
2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self
2011	Black Mirror	Mia Nolan
2008	The Devil's Whore	Angelica Fanshawe
2007	Party Animals	Kirsty MacKenzie
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self
2004	Doc Martin