Actor Florence Pugh | Breakthrough Brit 2016

Florence’s first professional acting role nearly didn’t happen. She remembers being 17 and her mum convincing her to send in an audition filmed on her phone with half-an-hour left until the casting deadline. The audition was for Carol Morley’s The Falling, and the next day she received a call from the producers. After a summer of follow-up auditions, Florence was cast in the supporting-lead role opposite Maisie Williams. Before that she’d only performed in school plays and sang in her dad’s restaurant, so s