Mirren Mack

Mirren Mack (born 8 December 1997) is a Scottish actress, known for portraying Kaya on the BBC drama The Nest , Florence in Sex Education , Queenie in the National Theatre’s 2022 production of Small Island , and Merwyn in the Netflix miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin .

Mack was born in Stirling, Scotland.^[2] From a young age, she was exposed to the entertainment industry, with her father, Billy, being an actor and her mother, Callan, being a drama tutor.^[2] Her younger sister, Molly, is also an actress.^[3] With sister Molly, she danced at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.^[3] Mack went to Riverside Primary school and then Wallace High School in Stirling,^[4] In year five at High School, Mack attended the Dance School of Scotland's Musical Theatre.^[1] In 2016, she received the Dewar Arts Award for outstanding Scottish talent in the arts,^[2] enabling her the opportunity to audition for a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama,^[2] where she studied a Bachelor of Arts in Acting.^{[5] [6]}

Mack made her professional acting debut in a stage production of Bat Boy as Mayor Maggie,^[7] at the Citizen's Theatre, for which she won the Musical Theatre Award and the drama award for her year.^[2]

Stage performances have included the play Wound by Philip Ridley in 2020.^[8] In 2022, as Ophelia in the Bristol Old Vic's adaption of Shakespeare's Hamlet .^[9] and the same year as Queenie in Small Island at the Royal National Theatre in London.^[8]

In 2019, Mack made her television debut in three episodes of the Netflix series Sex Education as Florence.^{[10] [11]} In 2020, Mack was cast in her first leading role as Kaya on the BBC drama series The Nest alongside Martin Compston and Sophie Rundle . ^[12] Mack came out of Covid lockdown to appear in the seventh series of Portrait Artist of the Year on Sky Arts.^[13]

Mack began filming of the Netflix miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin in August 2021,^[14] set in a time 1,200 years before The Witcher , and appeared in a main role as Princess Merwyn in a cast that includes Lenny Henry, Laurence O'Fuarain and Michelle Yeoh.^[15] The series was released on Netflix on 25 December 2022.^[16]

In 2024, she appeared as Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham in three episodes of the Sky Atlantic period drama Mary & George .^[17]

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• Mirren Mack – Sterling Events Tolbooth Talk, 18 June 2020

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• 21st-century Scottish actresses
• Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
• British television actresses
• Actors from Stirling
• Scottish stage actresses
• Scottish television actresses
• Actresses from Stirling (council area)

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