Age: 11
female
Matilda Firth was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire as the middle child of three. A natural performer, she joined a children's drama class for an hour every Saturday afternoon where her love for acting soon shone through. Before long, Matilda began winning roles in commercials, TV shows, and movies. Her first lead role came at only six years old when she starred in McDonald's 2021 UK Christmas commercial directed by Bert and Bertie. In 2022, Matilda had roles in Disney's "Disenchanted", "Vampire Academy", "Christmas Carole", and "Starve Acre". She also filmed the role of Grace in "Hullraisers". The following year, Matilda completed the movie "Subservience", starring Megan Fox, and played Nancy in the highly acclaimed BBC show "Time". Later that year, she got the roles of both Sophie in "Coma" and Mille-Jo in the groundbreaking "Mr Bates vs. The Post Office." In 2024, Matilda joined the cast of Blumhouse and Universal's "Wolf Man", as well as "Nine Perfect Strangers". Matilda is represented by Paradigm Talent Agency (USA) and Articulate Agency (UK).
In Tuscany, 1944, as bombs fall and Allied forces advance, young English soldier Ulysses Temper meets Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian salvaging beauty from the ruins of war. Their brief but profound encounter sparks a connection that shapes Ulysses’s life for decades. Back in postwar London, surrounded by the eccentric regulars of The Stoat and Parrot pub, Ulysses carries the memory of Italy with him—until an unexpected inheritance calls him back to the Tuscan hills. Still Life is a tender, humorous, and sweeping novel about love, art, and the families we create, celebrating beauty in even the darkest times.
