Emily Cox (born February 23, 1985) is a British actress born in Austria who portrayed Brida in The Last Kingdom and the follow-up movie, Seven Kings Must Die.
Biography[]
Emily is best known from her leading role as the female Viking warrior 'BRIDA' in the epic and highly successful Netflix series 'The Last Kingdom'. Emily Cox grew up in Vienna with a British father and an Irish mother, who are both pianists. She now lives in Vienna and in Berlin. As a teenager, she thought that she wanted to become a dancer, but after performing in a play as part of her English classes during her final year in high school, she knew that acting was what she loved and wanted to do. After her graduation, she went on to study acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
In 2008 she was under contract as a stage actor at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. After that, she continuously worked for German and Austrian TV and cinema. Her most important TV- credits include "JERKS", various 'Tatorts', 'Dutschke', 'Homeland' and 'A new life'. For cinema her most prominent work includes films like 'The Fatherless' by Marie Kreutzer (Berlinale), 'Die Rettung der uns bekannten Welt' and 'Head full of Honey' by Til Schweiger, 'Wuff' by Detlev Buck and 'The silent mountain' by Ernst Gossner.
Filmography[]
Films[]
- Dutschke as Gretchen Dutschke (TV Movie, 2009)
- Rammbock: Berlin Undead as Anita (2010)
- Hepzibah - Sie holt dich im Schlaf as Stephanie (TV Movie, 2010)
- Der Täter as Mascha (TV Movie, 2010)
- Molly & Mops - Ein Mops kommt selten allein (TV Movie, 2011)
- The Fatherless as Mizzi (2011)
- Born to Dance as Milena 'Milli' Neubert (TV Movie, 2011)
- The Way to Live as Laura (2011)
- Eine königliche Affäre - Das riskante Leben des Leibarztes Johann Friedrich Struensee (2012)
- The Dead and the Living as Agnes (2012)
- Stille as Mel (TV Movie, 2013)
- Futuro Beach as Nanna (2014)
- The Silent Mountain as Elisabeth Gruber (2014)
- Die Freischwimmerin as Martha Müller (TV Movie, 2014)
- Jesus Cries as Magdalena (2015)
- Nichts zu verlieren as Miriam (TV Movie, 2018)
- Womit haben wir das verdient? as Therapeutin (2018)
- Wuff as Ella (2018)
- Head Full of Honey as Nursing Home Manager (2018)
- The Accidental Rebel as Lilly (2019)
- Danowski - Blutapfel as Meta Jurkschat (TV Movie, 2019)
- Blind ermittelt - Zerstörte Träume as Therese Maxeiner (TV Movie, 2020)
- Hartwig Seeler - Ein neues Leben as Tascha Pecht (TV Movie, 2021)
- Die Rettung der uns bekannten Welt (2021)
- Alma & Oskar as Alma Mahler (2022)
- The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die as Brida (2023)
TV Series[]
- Vienna Crime Squad as Judith Stoll (2009)
- Der Fluch von Selman as Stephanie (2010)
- Innocent as Maja Hünow (2010)
- Fast Forward as Diana Weininger (2010)
- Police Call 110 as Heike (2010)
- Der Winzerkönig as Anna Stickler (2010)
- SOKO Kitzbühel as Gina Prinz (2012)
- Kommissarin Lucas as Jeanette Wilson (2012)
- SOKO Stuttgart as Lucie Thieme (2013)
- Paul Kemp - Alles kein Problem as Manuela (2013)
- Circle of Life (2014)
- Großstadtrevier as Dr. Romy Dieringer (2014)
- Zorn as Frieda Borck (2014)
- CopStories as Sonja Omminger (2014)
- Shades of Guilt as Ulrike Gronau (2015)
- In Your Dreams as Mathilde (2015)
- Homeland as Claudia (2015)
- A Case for Two as Edith Egger / Marie Gottlob (2013, 2015)
- Leipzig Homicide as Hannah Falck (2017)
- Labaule & Erben as Lena (2018)
- Tatort as Miranda / Roswita Mader / Sybille Wildering / Tanja Fischer (2015, 2019)
- Die verlorene Tochter as Veronica Barclay (2020)
- Jerks as Emily (2017-2020)
- The Last Kingdom as Brida (2015-2022)
Shorts[]
- Verwehte as Mädchen (2007)
- Kai & Kira (2009)
- Die Inseln, die wir sind. as Anna (2011)
- Unser Lied as Marie (2012)
- Anita as Anita (2013)
- Abendempfindung an Laura as Laura (2015)
Appearances[]
The Last Kingdom[]
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Season 4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
Season 5 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
Seven Kings Must Die | ✔ |
External Links[]
- Emily Cox on Wikipedia
- Emily Cox at the Internet Movie Database
- Follow Emily Cox (@emycox) on Twitter
- Follow Emily Cox on Instagram