After acclaimed performances in Sharp Objects and Little
Women, the
Australian Actor has quickly found herself one of Hollywood’s most in-demand young stars
By the age of 20, Eliza Scanlen had already played a full
American anthology of roles, from dark and depraved (Amy Adams’s rollerskating, psychopathic kid sister on HBO’s Sharp Objects), to sinister (Mayella, who falsely accuses a black man of rape, in Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway staging of To Kill A Mockingbird) to literary heroine (Beth, the docile yet dogged, sickly sister in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women).
And yet the Australian actor, now 21, who started out playing a stalker on Home and Away, hadn’t played the staple of rising star roles: a character who’s fallen in love.