Isabella Laughland

Laughland was born in 1991 in West London to Welsh television director Nick Laughland (1951–2020) and casting director Nadira Seecoomar, who is of Indo-Guyanese heritage. Seecoomar's father had arrived in England from Guyana in 1962 as part of the Windrush generation. Laughland was raised in Twickenham, South West London now a reporter for The Guardian. As a teenager, Laughland participated in a drama group hosted each Saturday by the Young Blood Theatre Company at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith. However, her mother insisted that she take her GCSEs before going into acting. Laughland further developed her acting skills through the National Youth Theatre. ==Career==

Laughland made her television debut in a 2009 episode of the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners. She was 16 when she was cast as Leanne in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, marking her feature film debut in 2009. She would reprise her role in the final two Harry Potter films Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and Part 2 (2011). She led Pride and Prejudice opposite James Northcote at the Sheffield Crucible. In 2017, she played Vanessa in the film ''Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool'' in a cast which included Annette Bening, Julie Walters, Stephen Graham, and Vanessa Redgrave. In 2021, Laughland starred in the Channel 5 Tudor thriller Anne Boleyn as “Lizzie” (Elizabeth Browne, Countess of Worcester), lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn. In 2022, she played the role of China in the BBC One four-part true crime drama Four Lives alongside Stephen Merchant and Sheridan Smith. == Filmography ==