Emma Wilkinson Wright

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Emma Wilkinson Wright

IMPERIAL ARTISTS AGENCY
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Award-winning actress. Roma/British heritage. RADA graduate. London based. Loves and lives for my craft.

WINNER - BEST ACTOR - London Pub Theatre Awards 2025 (Liz Truss in The Last Days of Liz Truss?)
FINALIST - BEST SOLO SHOW - London Pub Theatre Awards 2025 (Liz Truss)
WINNER - BEST SHORT - London Film Club 2026 (DCI Lana Owens in Door in the Wall)
FINALIST - BEST COMEDY - Performance Ins Film Awards 2026 (Ruth in Feedback)
FINALIST - BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - Slick Films 2024
WINNER - BEST SHOW OF 2024 - Theatre and Tonic (Rika in Rika's Rooms)

PRESS FROM THE LAST DAYS OF LIZ TRUSS?
"STANDOUT": The Guardian, Mark Lawson
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘A brilliant performance’ (Theatre and Tonic)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘A fascinating and entertaining production’ (UK Theatre Web)
★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 ‘Satirical comical tragedy at its best – Wilkinson Wright has a storming presence as Liz Truss’ (London Born & Bred)
★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Wilkinson Wright’s bravura and mesmerising performance is a superbly pitched and accurately delivered recreation of a curious period in our history’ (Londontheatre1)
🐭🐭🐭🐭 ‘Gripping…remarkable’ (Libby Purves, Theatre Cat)
★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Biting, ironic, and deeply funny - deftly captures the contradictions at the heart of British politics’ (Plays to See)

PREVIOUS THEATRE HIGHLIGHTS
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “An incredible performance. Wilkinson Wright is mesmerising to watch. Rika’s Rooms, based on Louw’s own mother’s life and brought to life by Wilkinson Wright, is a one-woman show which should not be missed.” (Theatre and Tonic)
★ ★ ★ ★ “Wilkinson Wright is a revelation as Rika" (North West End)
“A superb one-woman show” (The Spectator - THE MITFORDS)
“An incredible actress” Peter Hain speaking on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme about Wilkinson Wright’s performance as his mother, Adelaine Hain in “The Only White”
“There’s some talented acting in this show especially by Wilkinson Wright as Ad Hain, Peter’s mother. She is totally believable in her anxious decency” Sardines Magazine.


Emma Wilkinson Wright
37-50 yearsGreater London (GB), Cheshire West and Chester (GB)
Acting age37-50 years
NationalityBritish
Main professionActor
Housing optionsGreater Manchester (GB)
Eye colorbrown
Height (cm)162
LanguagesEnglish(native)FrenchItalianSpanish
DialectsCockneyHeightened RPLondonNorthernRPStandard American EnglishStandard British English
AccentsFrenchSpanish
InstrumentsPiano
SportAlpine skiingGymnasticsIce skatingInline skatingLacrosseParkourSwimmingTennisYogaPilates
PitchAlto
Special skillsDisc jockeyImprovisation
Training

RADA, MA Theatre Lab, 2018-2019 (Graduated September 2019)
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, (Acting Diploma), 2017-2018
Making The Invisible Visible - 2 day Intensive with Max Webster (2025)
Screen Acting Intensive with Stefan Schwartz (2025)
R&D Intensive with Jeremy Herrin (2024/2025)
RCCSD Demidov Summer Intensive, 2018
Frantic Assembly Advanced Actor Training, 2017

Film
2025
Anareta
Survivor
Daniel Boocock Claret and Blue Films
2023
Leak in The Ceiling
Mother
Sean McSWEYN
2023
The Bottle
Anna
Sam Windle Fortress Media Group
2022
PANDA
Carlotta (Italian)
Sasha Briggs
2021
The Queue
Angry Woman
Joel Stokes Galleria Pictures
2021
Ghosts of the Wasteland
The Clockwork Wife
Jason Fite Peracals Productions
2021
Polly
Polly Nichols
Anne-Sophie Trombert
2020
Feedback
Ruth (Lecturer)
Ingo Lyle Goodwin
2020
Traces of Suburbia
Mercy (lead female)
Bautista Botto
2019
Cottontail (Table Read)
Akiko
Patrick Dickenson Baby Cow Productions
2019
Square Peg Round Hole
Abbey
B Welby Delamere
2017
Macbeth (Table Read)
Lady Macbeth
Colin Swinfin Peracals Productions
2016
A Date With Death
Kate
Colin Swinfin Peracals Productions
Television
2025
The Lost Women Spies
Irene Ward
Patrick Dickinson World Media Rights/NOW TV/SKY
Theater
2026
The Last Days of Liz Truss?
Liz Truss
Anthony Shrubsall The Other Palace Theatre
2025
The Last Days of Liz Truss? (WINNER - Best Actor)
Liz Truss
Anthony Shrubsall White Bear Theatre
2025
Run At It Laughing
Cataldo
Mark Ravenhill Wiltons Music Hall
2025
ADHD? WTF is ADHD?
Blulu
Anthony Shrubsall Playground Theatre
2024
The Tragic Events (R&D)
Various
Mark Ravenhill
2024
Fool For Love (R&D)
Various
Jeremy Herrin
2024
Grace Pervades (R&D)
Various
Jeremy Herrin
2024
Rika's Rooms (Best Solo Show 2024, Theatre and Tonic)
Rika
Anthony Shrubsall Playground Theatre
2024
The Moral Women
Billie
Megan Earl Hen and Chickens Theatre
2023
The Changeling
Vermandera
Ricky Dukes, Lazarus Southwark Playhouse
2023
The Mitfords (OffFest Award nom)
Unity, Diana, Jessica and Nancy Mitford
Sarah Lawrie TheSpaceUK Edinburgh Fringe 2023
2023
The Only White
Adelaine Hain
Anthony Shrubsall Chelsea Theatre
2023
Secret Thoughts
Helen Reed
Paloma Jacobs- Duvernet Omnibus Theatre
2022
Patterns
Hazel
Emma Louise Howell Leicester Curve
2022
Necessary Targets
JS
Gemma Brockiss (Dramaturg) Southwark Playhouse
2022
ASSISTED
Connie
Gareth Watkins Oxia Theatre with theSpace @EdFringe
2021
Mother Courage and Her Children (R&D)
Mother Courage
Ricky Dukes Lazarus Theatre Company
2021
Secret Thoughts
Helen Reed
Paloma Jacob-Duvernet, Stonecrabs Theatre Southwark Playhouse
2021
Like Water For Chocolate (R&D)
Rosaura
Emma Louise Howell Cervantes Theatre
2021
Love, Genius and A Walk
Martha Freud and Pauline Strauss
Leah Townley Theatro Technis (LGW Productions)
2021
Hamlet
Gertrude
Gavin MacAlinden Tower Theatre
2021
Tiny Camel
Woman
Samuel Tannenbaum Finborough Theatre/Poplar Union
2021
The After Dinner Joke
Mother
James Haddrell Greenwich Theatre
2020
As You Like It
Jacques
Owen Horsley
2020
Hidden
Tina
Charon Bourke Vaults Festival (Toil and Trouble Theatre Company)
2019
Iphigenia in Aulis
Clytemnestra
Lee Anderson The Cockpit Theatre (Performance Anxiety)
2019
Moonlight Strangers
Woman
Sebastian Polka Camden Peoples Theatre (Big Boots Theatre Company)
2019
The Changeling
Yves (Matriarch)
Gemma Brockis GBS Theatre
2019
The Bacchae
Agave
Gareth Watkins, Ian Morgan RADA/The International Festival of Ancient Greek Theatre, Messine
2018
Her Naked Skin
Celia Cain
Petina Hapgood Goodman Productions, John Lyons Theatre
2017
The Winter's Tale
Paulina
Petina Hapgood Goodman Productions, John Lyons Theatre
2017
Undecided
Performer
Simon Pittman, Jess Williams Frantic Assembly, Hackney Showrooms
2016
Love of a Nightingale
Procne
Laura Baggeley City Lit
2016
Separate Tables
Anne Shankland
Vernon Thompson CL Rep Company John Lyons Theatre
2014
Angelwise
Woman (Lead)
Vivienne Rochester Lyric Hammersmith Festival of New Writing, Vivienne Rochester
2014
Seasons Greetings
Belinda
Vernon Thompson John Lyons Theatre, CL Rep Company
Other
2024
BBC Radio 4 ASSISTED
Connie
Sarah Lawrie Perfectly Normal Productions
2022
Umbrella
Gran
Rosmary Richardson Bloomsbury Festival Radio
2021
All Our Tomorrows
Shelia
Jason Fite Peracals Productions and Audible
2020
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
Jason Fite Peracals Productions and Audible