
Imogen Poots
Department: Acting
Biography
Imogen Gay Poots (born June 3, 1989) is an English actress and model. She played Tammy in the post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Weeks Later (2007), Linda Keith in the Jimi Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013), Debbie Raymond in the Paul Raymond biopic The Look of Love (2013), and Julia Maddon in the American action film Need for Speed (2014). Also in 2014, she portrayed Jesse Crichton in A Long Way Down, alongside Pierce Brosnan and Aaron Paul. In 2016, she starred as Kelly Ann in the Showtime series Roadies. In 2020, she played Laura in the Academy Award winning The Father (2020), which starred Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman.
Known For

28 Weeks Later
2007

Centurion
2010

Cracks
2009

Solitary Man
2009

Christopher and His Kind
2011

Jane Eyre
2011

Chatroom
2010

Miss Austen Regrets
2008

Waking Madison
2011

Fright Night
2011

Filth
2013

A Late Quartet
2012

A Long Way Down
2014

Greetings from Tim Buckley
2013

Comes a Bright Day
2012

Need for Speed
2014

The Look of Love
2013

Jimi: All Is by My Side
2013

Discord and Harmony: Creating a Late Quartet
2013

Baltimore
2024

That Awkward Moment
2014

She's Funny That Way
2015

Rule Number Three
2011

Hedda
2025

V for Vendetta
2006

Knight of Cups
2015

Green Room
2016

Frank & Lola
2016

The Chronology of Water
2025

A Country Called Home
2016

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2016

The Teacher
2024

Me and Orson Welles
2008

Killing for Love
2016

Wish
2007

Age Out
2018

Mobile Homes
2017

Sweet Virginia
2017

All of You
2025

I Kill Giants
2017

Have Had
2017

National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2017

The Sleeping Shepherd
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The Art of Self-Defense
2019

Vivarium
2019

Castle in the Ground
2021

The Father
2020

Black Christmas
2019

French Exit
2021

October
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I Know This Much Is True
2020

Bouquet of Barbed Wire
2010

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005

Roadies
2016

Casualty
1986

Outer Range
2022

The Last Leg
2013

Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014