Aisling Loftus

Aisling Sinead Katie Loftus (born 1 September 1990) is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress on television and film, her performance in the film Property of the State (2016), earned her an IFTA nomination. Her other credits include Five Daughters (2010), Dive (2010), Spur of the Moment (play), Death of a Superhero (2011), Mr Selfridge (2013–2015), War & Peace (2016), Broken (2017), A Discovery of Witches (2018–2022), and The Midwich Cuckoos (2022). Early life and education Loftus was born in Nottingham to Irish parents Paddy and Eileen from Drumcondra, Dublin and Roscrea, County Tipperary; she has an older sister Aoife. Throughout her childhood she visited family in Ireland for holidays, in Dublin, Tipperary, Cork, Kerry, Galway and Clare. Loftus attended St Edmund Campion Catholic Primary School in West Bridgford, and later completed A Levels in English literature, drama and history, at the Becket School in Wilford. She was nine when she discovered acting; she took classes at the Television Workshop, and participated in the National Theatre Connections. She considered going to drama school, but decided against it when she was cast in Dive whilst on study leave. Career Loftus made her television debut in a 2000 episode of the ITV medical drama Peak Practice. This was followed by guest appearances in the CITV series Help! I'm a Teenage Outlaw as well as Casualty, Doctors, and The Bill. In 2009, she starred as Amy in the ITV comedy-drama television film The Fattest Man in Britain, and the titular character of Daniel Elliott's short Jade, which won Silver Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009. Loftus was named a 2009 Screen International Star of Tomorrow.