Eliza Scanlen

Actor

Eliza Scanlen

Born January 6, 1999 in Sydney, Australia15 films

Eliza Jane Scanlen (born 6 January 1999) is an Australian actress. She rose to prominence portraying Tabitha Ford in the Australian soap opera Home and Away (2016), before receiving critical acclaim by playing a troubled teenager in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018). In 2022, she starred in the Showtime series The First Lady as young Eleanor Roosevelt.

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She made her film debut in 2019, with starring roles in the drama Babyteeth and Greta Gerwig’s period drama Little Women.

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Caddo Lake posterFirst watchCaddo Lake20247.2as EllieA leading role.When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.View film

Essential films

Ranked by role, acclaim and reach
Little Women poster7.8Little Women2019Babyteeth poster6.9Babyteeth2020The Starling Girl poster6.3The Starling Girl2023The Devil All the Time poster7.2The Devil All the Time2020Old poster6.3Old2021

Filmography

15 films as actor
  1. TBAAll That I Am
  2. TBAFear Is the Rider
  3. TBALet It Come Down
  4. TBAUnspeakableLil
  5. 2025National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being EarnestCecily Cardew
  6. 2024Caddo LakeEllie
  7. 2024Body of Water
  8. 2023The Starling GirlJem Starling
  9. 2021OldKara Aged 15
  10. 2020The Devil All the TimeLenora Laferty
  11. 2020BabyteethMilla
  12. 2019Little WomenBeth March
  13. 2018Love and Other PlacesClaude
  14. 2017GraceGrace
  15. 2016LacunaZoe