Annabelle Wallis

In Portugal, Wallis appeared in several short films before she moved to London to pursue a career in film. In London, she did some advertisements and looked into drama schools before ultimately deciding to find an agent.[1]

In 2005 she landed a lead role in the Bollywood film Dil Jo Bhi Kahey.... The film did not fare well at box office. In the following years, she landed small parts in True True Lie (2006) alongside Jaime King or Body of Lies (2008) in which she played Mark Strong’s girlfriend. She starred in the B-movie Steel Trap (2008).

In television, her breakthrough was in season three of the Showtime drama series The Tudors (2009) as queen Jane Seymour. She replaced actress Anita Briem. In the following years, she starred in the television film The Lost Future (2010) alongside Sam Claflin and in the ABC series Pan Am (2011). The show was cancelled after one season due to a drop in audiences.[6] · [7]

In 2011, she was directed by Madonna in W.E.: Wallis & Edouard and had a small part in X-Men: First Class. In 2012 she appeared in Jared Leto's documentary Artifact and in Snow White and the Huntsman but was not credited.

Wallis and Sofia Boutella at The Mummy premiere in Sydney.

Wallis starred as Grace Burgess in the BBC drama Peaky Blinders, from 2013 to 2016.[8]

In 2014, she joined The Conjuring Universe with the main part of the horror film Annabelle directed by John R. Leonetti and produced by James Wan. The film was a box-office success and became the fourteenth highest-grossing horror/supernatural film.[9] Wallis' performance stood out and she was nominated at the 2015's MTV Movie & TV Awards for Best Scared-As-S**t Performance.[10][11] She returned as Mia Form in Annabelle: Creation (2017). In 2014, she portrayed Muriel Wright, the original Bond Girl, on the mini-series Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond alongside actor Dominic Cooper.

In 2016 she starred in the action comedy film The Brothers Grimsby, the drama Come and Find Me and the psychological thriller war film Mine.

In 2017, Wallis joined the Dark Universe created by Universal Pictures and starred as archaeologist Jenny Halsey in The Mummy, a reboot of The Mummy franchise. Wallis did almost all of her stunts herself including a Zero-G scene that almost killed her.[12] The film received negative reviews and was a box office bomb.[13] It was nominated in eight categories at the Golden Raspberry Awards and in two categories at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists which included Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis in the category Most Egregious Age Difference between the Lead and the love Interest Award. The same year she joined Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.[14]

In 2018, she landed a lead in the American comedy Tag as Rebecca Crosby.[15] Later that year, Wallis reunited with film director Alex Kurtzman for an episode of Star Trek: Short Treks. She lends her voice to an artificial intelligence called Zora.[16]

In April 2018, she was announced to be Cartier's ambassador for jewelry and the new face of the Panthère de Cartier watch.[17]

In 2019, Wallis joined Showtime's mini-series The Loudest Voice. She portrays Laurie Luhn, Head of Booking at Fox News Channel and Roger Ailes' long-time "mistress". Luhn is one of Ailes' first victim to talk and denounce him, alongside Gretchen Carlson.[18][19][20] The series received generally favorable reviews and was nominated at the Golden Globe Awards for Best Limited Series or Television Film. Wallis' performance was praised and seen as an "heartbreakingly powerful work" according to the Chicago Sun Times.[21]

Later that year, Wallis reprised her role as Grace Shelby in the fifth season of Peaky Blinders.[22] She joined the science fiction action film Boss Level directed by Joe Carnahan, starring Frank Grillo and Mel Gibson and was announced as a lead in Agata Alexander's science fiction thriller Warning.[23][24]

In 2020, Wallis starred in The Princess Bride for Quibi to raise money for World Central Kitchen.[25]

In February 2019, she landed the role of Sheriff Alice Gustafson in Robin Pront's thriller The Silencing.[26] The film was supposed to premiere at the South by Southwest festival in March 2020 but it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Saban will distribute the film.[27] Wallis stars in James Wan's horror film Malignant. Scheduled by Warner Bros to premiere in August 2020, the released was postponed to an unknown date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[28] In February 2020, right before the lockdown ordered by the United Kingdom due to the pandemic, she finalized the filming of the Christmas comedy Silent Night.[29]