Person Biography:
Emily Swain is an Anglo-Irish actor with a career spanning stage, screen, and international productions. Born to veteran actors Cherry Morris and Mike Murray, she was conceived on Australia's Sunshine Coast while her father starred in Camelot. She later returned to Australia for a two-month engagement, calling it a "homecoming".
Trained at The Academy of Live & Recorded Arts (ALRA) in London, Emily also studied in Oxford and The Sorbonne in Paris, where she became fluent in French. She was part of the Almeida Theatre Company, performing in the multi-award-winning 'King Charles III', which transferred to the West End and toured nationally and internationally to Sydney Theatre Company.
On screen, Emily starred as Sue in the Royal Television Society (RTS South) award-winning 'What About Me' and earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Hulu's Bite Size Halloween 'The Heritage'. She has appeared on screen with legends like Sir Michael Caine and Bollywood's Shah Rukh Khan.
As a true storyteller at heart, Emily is also an award-winning filmmaker and writer, with work showcased at Independent Shorts, Los Angeles' Indie Shorts Fest, London's East End Film Festival, Bloomsday Dublin and IFTA-affiliated festivals. Her feature project The Confessional (in its award-winning short form The Shriving) was dedicated to the Syrian families she met while filming inside refugee camps in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley.
Beyond acting and filmmaking, Emily's life has been anything but ordinary. She has interviewed The Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace, scaled the world's largest aircraft carriers, and played a cherished role in securing the release of a human rights activist in Southeast Asia.
Often described as "a charming Celtic queen stroking the dog with one hand and shooting the neighbor with the other... velvet with steel", Emily is only getting started. With a career already rich in depth and adventure, she's beyond excited to see what the next 40 years will bring.
