Emma D'Arcy

Emma Zia D'Arcy (born 27 June 1992) is an English actor, known for their roles in the BBC drama Wanderlust (2018), the Amazon Prime series Truth Seekers (2020), and the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon (2022–), the latter of which earned them critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Early life D'Arcy was born in the North London Borough of Enfield. In year six, they played Titania in a school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which they credit for introducing them to acting. They studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art through St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating in 2011. During their time at university, D'Arcy took up theatre on the side with their friends, beginning as a set designer before moving into acting and directing. Career Theatre D'Arcy has appeared in several theatre productions; their earliest appearances were in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman at the Oxford Playhouse, Romeo and Juliet at London's Southwark Playhouse, and Clickbait at Theatre503. In 2016, D'Arcy played Tammy Frazier in Callisto: A Queer Epic, directed by Thomas Bailey, at the Arcola Theatre. They starred as Bell in the April 2017 production, A Girl in School Uniform (Walks into a Bar), at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. In August 2017, D'Arcy appeared alongside Ben Whishaw in playwright Christopher Shinn's Against, at the Almeida Theatre. Writing for the arts desk, Aleks Sierz praised D'Arcy's performance as well as the production's "marvellous moments of wry humour and acute emotional insight."