Emily Barclay
{{Short description|New Zealand actress (born 1984)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Emily Barclay
| image = Emily Barclay.jpg
| caption = Barclay in 2012
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1984|10|24}}
| birth_place = Plymouth, England, UK
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1998–present
| spouse = Thomas Ward (m.2023-present)
| children = 2
| relatives = Charlotte Dawson (aunt)
}}
Emily Barclay Ward (born 24 October 1984) is a British-born New Zealand and Australian AFI award winning actress.
Career
Emily Barclay was born in Plymouth to a General practitioner and a landscape designer, and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, where she went to an all-girls school and attended Saturday morning drama classes. At the age of nine, Barclay played Hamlet in a school production and decided to become an actress. At the age of 13, she got herself an agent and supported herself between TV movies by working in a video store.{{Cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/dec/22/2 |title = First Sight: Emily Barclay|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 22 December 2006|last1 = O'Neill|first1 = Phelim}}
Diana Rowan (the same casting agent who discovered Anna Paquin and Keisha Castle-Hughes) discovered Barclay in a school play and cast her as Celia in 2004's In My Father's Den, that raised the actress to prominence.[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/10/1086749838928.html Kiwi actor a star attraction] via Sydney Morning Herald 11 June 2006 For that film, Barclay won Most Promising Newcomer at the 2005 British Independent Film Awards. She followed by moving to Australia – while continuing part-time with her degree in English and gender studies at the University of Auckland – for a role in the critically acclaimed 2006 crime drama Suburban Mayhem directed by Paul Goldman, for which she collected an AFI Award for Best Actress.
Barclay's performance also lead to an invitation to her first stage performance, on Neil Armfield's 2009 production of Gethsemane in Sydney. Armfield later indicated Barclay to Lee Lewis, who cast her in the play That Face.{{Cite web | url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/emily-barclay-is-a-rebel-with-a-cause/2010/01/26/1264267991083.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 |title = Emily Barclay is a rebel with a cause|date = 26 January 2010}} In 2011, she performed in another Belvoir production, The Seagull, and acted opposite Geoffrey Rush in the Melbourne Theatre Company's The Importance of Being Earnest. In 2012, Barclay performed opposite Hollywood actors Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin in This Is Our Youth, returned to Belvoir with Strange Interlude and debuted at London's Young Vic performing on Three Sisters.{{Cite web |url=http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/theatre/features/671/the-importance-of-being-emily |title=The Importance of Being Earnest - Emily Barclay - Theatre - Time Out Melbourne |access-date=16 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826115209/http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/theatre/features/671/the-importance-of-being-emily |archive-date=26 August 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}{{Cite web | url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/this-is-our-youth-20120225-1tunn.html | title=This is Our Youth| date=24 February 2012}}
Barclay is currently represented by United Agents.{{Cite web | url=http://www.unitedagents.co.uk/emily-barclay#profile-1 |title = Emily Barclay | United Agents}}
Barclay also starred in the music video "Big Jet Plane" by Angus & Julia Stone which was directed by Kiku Ohe in 2010.[http://www.soundsofoz.com/2010/04/02/emily Barclay portrays character "Ella" in Season 3 of Josh Thomas's comedy drama tv show]
She has cited her favourite actor as being Ewen Leslie.
Animal rights
The actress has had an active involvement in animal rights, working with the organisation Save Animals From Exploitation in anti-cruelty campaigns, including having posters put in her room in In My Fathers Den; she is a vegan.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930045711/http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4018432a6536.html Bad-girl Barclay] press.co.nz 10 April 2007[http://www.safe.org.nz/images.php?oid=1016 Actress Emily Barclay supports vegetarian SAFE stall] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927043222/http://www.safe.org.nz/images.php?oid=1016 |date=27 September 2007 }} Save Animals From Exploitation (SAFE) press release 8 Nov 2004
In 2006, Barclay became an ambassador for Australian animal rights group Voiceless, the animal protection institute. "I'm not against people who eat meat but I'd like them to know what happens in factory farms where highly intelligent animals live horrific lives."{{cite web|title=Voiceless, the animal protection institute|url=https://www.voiceless.org.au/who-we-are/emily-barclay|date=February 2012}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2001
|Amy Burchall | |
| 2004
|Celia Steimer |British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer |
| 2005
|Cockle |Jane |Short |
| 2006
|Katrina Skinner |AACTA Award for Best Leading Actress |
| 2009
|Melissa / Calendar Girl | |
| 2010
|Zero |Girl |Short |
| 2010
|Lou |Rhia | |
| 2010
|Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole |Gylfie (voice) | |
| 2011
|Brenda | |
| 2011
|Claire | |
| 2012
|Australian teacher | |
| 2016
|Gwen Potts | |
| 2017
|Viv | |
| 2019
|Toby | |
| 2020
|Molly | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1998
|Kelly McKinley |TV series |
| 1999
|{{sortname|A|Twist in the Tale|nolink=1}} |Alison Bradley |"The Duellists", "A Ghost of Our Own" |
| 2001
|Hayley Borden |"Her Secret Passion" |
| 2003
|Tiffany |"4.2" |
| 2004
|Katie McCarthy |TV film |
| 2005
|Maddy |TV film |
| 2006
|Evelyn Hutchison |TV film |
| 2009
|Young Flora |TV film |
| 2010
|Abi Hart |"Hart of Darkness" |
| 2015–17
|Sarah Hayes |Regular role |
| 2015–16
|Ella |Main role |
| 2017
|Georgie |TV series |
| 2017
|Casey |TV series |
| 2019
|Georgie |TV series |
| 2021
|Zoe |TV series |
| 2022
|Charlotte |TV series |
=Stage=
| class="wikitable" | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes and awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| rowspan="1"| 2009 | Gethsemane | Suzette | |
| rowspan="1"|2010 | That Face | Mia | |
| rowspan="2"|2011 | The Seagull | Masha | Nominated – 2012 Sydney Theatre Award: Best Actress in a Supporting Role of a Mainstage Production |
| rowspan="1"| The Importance of Being Earnest | Cecily | ||
| rowspan="3"|2012 | This Is Our Youth | Jessica | |
| Strange Interlude | Nina | ||
| Three Sisters | Natasha | ||
| rowspan="1"|2013 | Hamlet | Ophelia |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=1120593|name=Emily Barclay}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130207053810/http://actors.co.nz/people/viewAnybody.aspx?AnybodyID=96514 Filmography at Karen Kay Management]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070814115047/http://safe.org.nz/SAFE-Calendar/ Emily Barclay in the SAFE 2007 Calendar]
{{AACTA Award Best Actress in a Leading Role 2000–2019}}
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Category:20th-century New Zealand actresses
Category:21st-century New Zealand actresses
Category:New Zealand child actresses
Category:New Zealand film actresses
Category:English emigrants to New Zealand
Category:New Zealand television actresses
Category:Actresses from Auckland
Category:Actresses from Plymouth, Devon