Erin Kellyman

Erin Mae Kellyman is a renowned British actress born on 17th October 1998. She was originally from Tamworth, Staffordshire and is of Irish and Jamaican descent from her mother Louise and father Charles respectively. Following her interest in acting, she graduated from the notorious Nottingham Television Workshop and also attended Birmingham Ormiston Academy and The Rawlett School. Her career in acting was first highlighted when she played a part in the Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves between 2015-2016, which eventually gave her more opportunities to feature in various television shows such as the BBC series Les Misérables in 2018, Don't Forget the Driver in 2019, and Life in 2020. Her appearance in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier in 2021 and Willow in 2022 also added to her spread in the acting arena. Her role in the movie Solo: A Star Wars Story in 2018 as marauder Enfys Nest marked her debut in the film industry and won her a global recognition. After the three-tiered audition process for it with lead Alden Ehrenreich, followed by stunt test and acting, she highly impressed viewers, making Nest in Solo a remarkably important new character. Besides, she has also appeared in Les Misérables and followed to act in Don't Forget the Driver and the BBC TV drama series Life as Maya, a distant relative appointed to live with her aunt. Kellyman has honorably shared the screen with Olivia Colman, Lily Collins, David Oyelowo, and Dominic West in the adaption of Les Misérables as Éponine by BBC and alongside Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan as a radical group head Karli Morgenthau in the 2021 Disney+ action series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Kellyman then starred as knight-in-training Jade in the 2022 Disney+ series Willow, leading to a first truly centered queer story franchise in Disney.