Chloe Pirrie Wiki, Height, Age, Boyfriend, Family, Biography & More – WikiBio

Chloe Pirrie is a Scottish actress who earned the Most Promising Newcomer Award at the British Independent Film Awards (2013) for her debut film ‘Shell’ in which she played the titular role. She is well-known for appearing in the film Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (2016), and web series The Crown (2017), and Troy: Fall of a City (2018).

Wiki/Biography

Chloe Pirrie was born on Tuesday, August 25, 1987 (age 33 years; as of 2020) in Edinburgh, Scotland. She did her schooling at The Mary Erskine School, Edinburgh. During her school days, she got inspired to pursue a career in acting by her drama teacher, Dr. Scott, who cast her in the school play ‘The Cherry Orchard’ in which she portrayed the role of Anya. She frequently used to visit The Lyceum, a theatre in Edinburg, where was mesmerized by, the Scottish actor, David Tennant’s performance in the play Look Back in Anger. In an interview, Chloe revealed that she wanted to move out of Edinburgh as she felt constricted, she said,

I wanted to leave Edinburgh quite strongly at the time, no offense to Edinburgh. It was the place I had grown up and I felt quite constricted. I wanted to be free and away and on my own.”

In 2009, she moved to London in England where she graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. After her graduation, she was working in a bar in London when she was cast for the Scottish drama film ‘Shell,’ which turned out to be the golden milestone that marked Chloe’s career. In an interview, she said,

I kept working in bars, went on holiday – I didn’t believe it was going to happen until I was up in the Highlands and taken to the set to start filming”

Physical Appearance

Height (approx.): 5′ 8″

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Eye Color: Dark Brown

Family & Ethnicity

Her mother is originally from Epping, County of Essex, England, and her father is from Glasgow, Scotland.

Parents & Siblings 

Not much is known about her parents.

Relationships, Husband & Children

In 2018, in an interview with You Magazine, Chloe Pirrie confirmed that she has a boyfriend, but, she denied naming him.

Career

Television

In 2013, she made her television debut with the show Black Mirror in which she played the role of Gwendolyn Harris. In 2014, Chloe Pirrie came into the limelight with the thriller series The Game (2014) in which she played the role of Wendy Straw.

In 2015, she gained recognition with the Franco-British crime drama series The Last Panthers in which she played the role of Carla. In 2016, she appeared as Julie Karagina in the historical drama serial War & Peace.

Chloe Pirrie in War & Peace (2016)

In 2019, she appeared in the television series ‘Temple’ in which she played the role of Karen Hall, a police officer.

Chloe Pirrie in Temple (2019)

Films

In 2012, Chloe Pirrie made her debut with the independent Scottish drama film ‘Shell’ in which she played the titular role of Shell, a 17-year-old girl who lives and works at a petrol station in the remote Scottish Highlands. The movie won Best Film at the Torino Film Festival (2012), and Chloe won the Most Promising Newcomer Award at the British Independent Film Awards (2013). In an interview, while talking about her big break, she said,

Independent film, I now know, is like that. Nobody has the money or the time. It makes me think it is a miracle that anything gets made, let alone something successful that wins awards. It was a very lucky break.”

In 2015, she appeared in the films An Inspector Calls, and Burn Burn Burn. In the same year, she appeared in the  Oscar-nominated film ‘Youth’ as the Girl Screenwriter. In 2016, she portrayed the role of Emily Brontë, an English novelist, in the film Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters. Chloe’s performance as Emily Brontë earned her reviews such as the ‘standout star’ of the film and she shot to fame.

In 2020, she starred as Isabella Knightley in the period comedy-drama film Emma.

Short-Films

In 2010, she made her short-film debut with Solstice in which she played the role of Lily. In 2016, Chloe appeared in the oscar-winning short film The Stutterer in which she played the role of Ellie, the love interest of a man who has a severe speech impediment. Thereafter she appeared in various short-films like Reflections (2014), Gibberish (2016), Broken Meats (2018), etc.

OTT/Web Series

In 2017, Chloe Pirrie made her digital debut with Netflix’s The Crown in which she played the role of Eileen Parker, the woman who caused a scandal and made things awkward for the monarchy by daring to divorce her husband.

Thereafter, in 2018, she appeared as Andromache, the wife of the Trojan prince Hector, in Netflix’s Troy: Fall of a City.

In 2020, she starred as Alice Harmon, mother of progatonist Beth Harmon (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) in the American coming-of-age period drama miniseries The Queen’s Gambit.

The Queen’s Gambit (2020)

Awards/Honors

• Nominated for Best British Newcomer Award at the BFI London Film Festival Awards (2012)

• Won Most Promising Newcomer Award at the British Independent Film Awards (2013)

• Recognized as a ‘Star of Tomorrow’ by Screen International (2013)

Favorite Things

• Television Shows: Gladiators (1992), Blind Date (1999)

Facts/Trivia

• During her school days, while studying for GCSEs (General Certificate of Secondary Education) and A-levels (Advanced Level qualifications) in Edinburgh, Chloe Pirrie suffered from extreme anxiety, therefore, she felt skeptical about continuing her academics. In an interview, she said,
  

  Academic study wasn’t for me… It got so bad that I thought, I can’t do this for another three years. I don’t think I will survive university…  It became a case of needing to find something vocational to do that didn’t involve written exams. Acting felt like a way I could make sense of the world.”

• Since childhood, Chloe Pirrie loves horse riding.
  

  Childhood picture of Chloe Pirrie riding a horse

• Chloe Pirrie grew up as the only child of her divorced parents, and she believes that it shaped her personality. In an interview, while sharing her childhood memories, she said,
  

  You become incredibly self-sufficient and good at entertaining yourself. I was always drawing imaginary worlds – hours and hours spent silently drawing. I would also devour books. I read everything.”

• During her childhood days, Chloe used to mimic various accents and did impersonations. In an interview, she said,
  

  My mum is from Essex and my dad is from Glasgow, though they both live in Edinburgh, so we have a lot of accents within the family and I would absorb them like a sponge. I would go on holiday to Ireland with my dad and would come back speaking in a Cork accent…”

• Chloe Pirrie loves to cook and finds it very relaxing.

• In an interview, Chloe Pirrie admitted that she had worked in countless restaurants, bars, and cafes, serving burgers, pulling pints, and baking cakes. She said,
  

  I only stopped waiting tables about three years ago. And I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. I made some great friends and learned so much about humility and hard graft, which has served me well in acting.”