Nell Williams

Nell Marmalade Baxendale-Williams

Career Acting Williams was scouted in a National Youth Music Theatre production aged 11. She was cast in Caryl Churchill's Love and Information at the Royal Court Theatre, and played the Young Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's The Audience in the Gielgud Theatre, for which she received widespread recognition from national and international media.

In 2015, she portrayed a teen version of Cersei Lannister in the opening episode of Season 5 of the HBO series Game of Thrones. She starred in Blinded by the Light which received rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019.

She appeared in The Good Liar, and starred in Elizabeth Is Missing, which received BAFTA nominations for Best Single Drama, and won a Best Actress for Jackson. Williams received widespread praise for her "sterling" supporting performance as "rebellious Katy".

In 2022 she played in British independent breakthrough feature Inland, playing next to Mark Rylance, directed by 20 year old Fridtjof Ryder.

Williams' leading role as The Bride in Barney Norris' adaptation of Lorca's Blood Wedding, and her performance in the Arcola main stage's Don't Destroy Me earned her critical acclaim.

She is set to star in independent British folk horror feature film Deepest Darkest alongside Aggy K Adams.

Williams played Glen Powell's teenage mother, Mary Redfellow in A24's How to Make a Killing (2026). She played Agatha in Young Sherlock.

Art While in education, Williams's painting was selected by Wolfgang Tillmans to exhibit at the Royal Academy of Art summer exhibition.

Filmography Film

Television