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Emerald Lilly Fennell (born 1 October 1985) is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first gained attention for her roles in period films, such as Albert Nobbs (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), and The Danish Girl (2015). She gained prominence for her starring role in the BBC One drama series Call the Midwife (2013–2017) and for her portrayal of Camilla Parker-Bowles in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2019–2020), the latter of which garnered her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. As a writer-director, Fennell is known as the showrunner for season two of the BBC spy thriller series Killing Eve (2019), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She made her feature film directorial debut with the thriller Promising Young Woman (2020), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and received nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. Fennell also wrote the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cinderella (2021) and directed her second film, the psychological thriller Saltburn (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Emerald Fennell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jocelyn Banks, a gifted ballerina who has long felt like an outsider, leaves her successful career in New York to start a new life in London with her boyfriend, Jordan. Her plans unravel when her estranged mother dies, forcing Jocelyn to care for her grandmother and find a way back into professional ballet to survive. She lands a position with the Royal National Ballet, where dancers rely on wealthy sponsors to fund their careers. Desperate, Jocelyn enters a complicated arrangement with the alluring but manipulative Alastair Cavendish. As she is pulled deeper into a world of privilege and power, her ambition becomes entangled with obsession, leading her down a dangerous path of desire, control, and self-destruction.
