Up-and-coming actor Emma Laird was highly sought-after even before she landed any feature roles. The 24-year-old Scottish-born talent eventually signed with APA talent agency. She accepted the role of Iris in “Mayor of Kingstown,” opposite Jeremy Renner, and has been making her meteoric rise in Hollywood stardom since the series premiered in 2021. Variety even listed her among their “10 Brits to Watch for 2021.”
She stars opposite Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried in the star-studded AppleTV+ series “The Crowded Room,” and in the next installment of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercules Poirot film series titled, “A Haunting in Venice.” That’s in addition to “The Brutalist,” which stars Adrian Brody as real-life visionary architect László Toth and Felicity Jones as his wife Erzsébet as they escape post-war Europe for America. Laird was also on the shortlist for playing Madonna in the now-postponed biopic.
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This success follows a seven-year career in modeling that Laird says funded her acting career, and when she left, the potential activist spoke out against all the systemic problems in the modeling industry in a letter to her agents. Laird is also a budding singer-songwriter who occasionally posts her original songs on Instagram.
