Naomi Ackie appreciation thread

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Naomi Sarah Ackie (born 2 November 1992) is a British actress, born Walthamstow, London, England.

She is known for her television roles in The End of the F***ing World (2019), for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Master of None (2021) and her film roles in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022), Blink Twice (2024), and Mickey 17 (2025).

Ackie's breakthrough film role was in Lady Macbeth (2016), for which she won the British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2017.She subsequently appeared in Idris Elba's directorial debut Yardie (2018) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). She also portrayed Bonnie in the second season of Netflix's black comedy series The End of the F***ing World, and a school inspector in Education, an hour-long drama part of Steve McQueen's anthology film series Small Axe.

Ackie portrayed American singer Whitney Houston in the biographical film I Wanna Dance with Somebody. The film opened to mixed reviews but widespread praise for Ackie's performance, with Variety calling her "a veritable artist of lip-syncing. The Hollywood Reporter noted that Ackie herself is "a capable singer" and can be heard briefly in a few early scenes.

Ackie starred in Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut Blink Twice in 2024,[15] and a year later starred opposite Robert Pattinson in Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17, an adaptation of the science-fiction novel.

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