Jessica Henwick Biography

Jessica Yu Li Henwick is the first East Asian actress to play the lead role in a British television series. Henwick was born and raised in Surrey the daughter of a Singaporean Chinese mother and an English father. For the role Henwick trained in wushu with martial arts choreographer Jude Poyer. The show was nominated for several awards including the Broadcast Awards 2011. The show was nominated for a Sony Radio Award in 2012. In early 2013 Henwick made her professional theatre debut in the international premiere of Running on the Cracks based on the book by Julia Donaldson. Allan Radcliffe of The Times praised her excellent and understated performance while the Guardian wrote with tremendous physical presence Henwick captures the sense of adolescent righteousness passion and confusion of a girl trying to create order in an unfair universe. Theatre critic Joyce McMillan wrote that Henwick was outstanding as Leo.

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