Georgina Haig

Early life and education Haig was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to Gillian Haig, a fine artist, and Russell Hagg, an Australian script writer and film maker, whose credits include BMX Bandits, The Cup, Cash and Company and Blue Heelers. Her father was 47 when she was born. Her younger brother is actor, model and singer-songwriter Julian Haig. She grew up on the Mornington Peninsula, in the suburb of Red Hill and her parents separated when she was a teenager. Haig attended Red Hill Consolidated School and then Toorak College for her high school education.

Career

In her first year out of drama school, Haig scored her debut role in Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, the second season of crime drama Underbelly. She won a Best Actress award at LA's Screamfest Horror Film Festival for her performance. Haig was also considered for the role of Gwen Stacy in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man, but lost the part to Emma Stone.

In 2012, she appeared as Glynnis in internationally acclaimed Australian film The Sapphires, an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name. The same year, she made her US acting debut on the FOX science-fiction legal drama Fringe, as Henrietta 'Etta' Bishop. and had a guest role as Patience in an episode of comedy series A Moody Christmas.

Haig began 2013 with work on the sketch comedy show The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting, playing a variety of characters. She then secured the lead role of Lee Anne Marcus in the CBS legal drama Reckless, where she played a police officer caught up in corruption at the Charleston, South Carolina Police Department. During that year she played the rock journalist Paula Yates in the miniseries INXS: Never Tear Us Apart, and defence lawyer Jasmine Griffiths in the black comedy The Mule, alongside Hugo Weaving, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell and Noni Hazlehurst.

She worked with Australian comedian Lawrence Leung and husband Josh Mapleston on ABC Australia's farcical kung-fu comedy Maximum Choppage in 2014, playing the role of mayor's daughter Elle. Later that year she secured the much coveted role of Queen Elsa in the fourth season of Once Upon a Time.

In July 2015, Haig was cast in Syfy futuristic pilot Incorporated, but the role was later recast with Allison Miller. In November 2015, it was announced that Haig would have a recurring role alongside Bradley Cooper and Jake McDorman in the first season of CBS crime drama Limitless. She starred as Annabel in Childhood's End, a Syfy three-part miniseries, based on a story by Arthur C. Clarke. In March 2016, she was cast as the female lead in The CW's Untitled Mars Project pilot.

In 2019, Haig played winemaker Olivia in drama miniseries Secret Bridesmaids' Business. In March 2020, it was announced Haig would replace Jessica Marais as Rachel Rafter in Back to the Rafters, a sequel series to Packed to the Rafters. She played seamstress Emilia on Netflix's Snowpiercer opposite Sean Bean, but was unable to complete her story due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2022, Haig played wealthy socialite Iris Vos in Netflix series Archive 81 and appeared alongside David Dastmalchian in Colin and Cameran Cairns' documentary-style horror film Late Night with the Devil as the late Madeline Delroy, lead character Jack’s wife.

Haig's debut short film Ashes was made in 2023, in which she starred as Frances and was also writer, director and producer on the project. The film was honoured with an AACTA nomination for Best Short Film in 2024.

Personal life Haig met her husband, screenwriter and actor Josh Mapleston, in her first year out of drama school, at the age of 24, when they were both living in Sydney. and in March 2017, their daughter Greta was born.

After having lived in Sydney and overseas in Los Angeles for work,

In February 2024, Haig revealed that she was pregnant with her second child – a boy – together with Mapleston.

Filmography

Film

Television