Aimee Lou Wood
After early stage roles in Mary Stuart (2016–2017) and People, Places and Things (2017), Wood made her screen debut on the Netflix series Sex Education (2019–2023), which won her a British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance from two nominations.She subsequently had roles in the films The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021) and Living (2022), and then starred in the BBC Three comedy series Daddy Issues (2024).She began her professional acting career in 2016 by working on stage productions, making her debut as a handmaiden in the play Mary Stuart,[11] performed at the Almeida Theatre in London until 2017.[12] Following this, she starred as Laura in the production People, Places and Things, a role that was performed numerous times by Wood on a tour across the UK.[13] In 2019, Wood made her screen debut as Aimee Gibbs, a main character in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education, where she co-stars alongside Asa Butterfield, Emma Mackey, Ncuti Gatwa and Gillian Anderson.
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