"At the 2024 Baftas, the actress won the Rising Star Award for her role as Tara in Molly Manning Walker's directorial debut, How To Have Sex, the breakout hit film navigating themes of consent, peer pressure and sexual assault, as three teenagers take a rite-of-passage trip to Crete to drink, club and hook up. "The story was such an important one to tell," says McKenna-Bruce. "So many people connected with it in some capacity.""
"This year, the 28-year-old actress also appears in the leading role of Lady Eileen Brent, the unlikely detective in Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, directed by Chris Sweeney and out on Netflix today. The three-part mystery, also featuring Helena Bonham-Carter and Martin Freeman, follows the investigation of a mysterious murder at a lavish party at a country house in 1925 England. "The script was quite expositional, and used a lot of very specific 1920s language, so hammering the lines was a big part of it," says McKenna-Bruce."
Mia McKenna-Bruce won the 2024 Bafta Rising Star Award for her role as Tara in Molly Manning Walker's How To Have Sex, a film addressing consent, peer pressure and sexual assault through a teenage rite-of-passage trip to Crete. The actress has major 2026 roles, including a part in Sam Mendes' Beatles biopic and the lead as Lady Eileen Brent in Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, a 1925-set three-part murder mystery on Netflix starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Martin Freeman. She previously appeared as Mary Elliott in Persuasion and will play Jane Andrews in the historical crime drama The Lady. Claire Denis's film The Fence, based on Bernard-Marie Koltès's Black Battles with Dog, is also due for release.
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