Sophie Wilde

Sophie Wilde (born 1997) is an Australian actress. She gained early attention for her roles on the Stan drama series Eden and the BBC One drama miniseries You Don't Know Me (both 2021). Her performance in the horror film Talk to Me brought her further recognition, winning the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She also received a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and was honoured with the Trophée Chopard.

Her other film roles include The Portable Door (2023) and Babygirl (2024). On television, she starred in the ITV period drama Tom Jones, and the Netflix series Everything Now (both 2023) and Boy Swallows Universe (2024). For the latter, Wilde received a Logie Award.

Early life and education Wilde was born in 1997 to an Ivorian mother and an Australian father. She has a younger brother and grew up in Enmore, an Inner West suburb of Sydney.

As a child, Wilde's grandparents would take her to "theatre shows, the opera and random musicals". From the age of five, she took drama classes at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP).

She attended Newtown High School of the Performing Arts.

In 2014, during a trip to the Himalayas, Wilde, then 17 years old, and her father were reported missing following the 2014 Nepal snowstorm disaster. After nine days, Wilde's father contacted her mother to tell her they were fine, having travelled to a remote area of the Himalayas when the avalanche hit.

Career In 2020, Wilde played Ophelia in the Bell Shakespeare production of Hamlet. That same year, she was named a Rising Star by the Casting Guild of Australia.

Wilde made her feature film debut in the supernatural horror film Talk to Me, which screened at the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival and the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She earned critical praise for her performance. Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote that the film "owes much of its potency to Sophie Wilde's continually evolving lead performance". Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times said that "...even when Talk to Me flirts with incoherence, Wilde pulls it back from the brink. More than just a great scream queen, she makes vivid sense of Mia's ravaged emotions, revealing her to be a captive less to the spirit realm than to her own inconsolable grief." David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter said that "...talented newcomer Wilde does the heaviest dramatic lifting." For her performance, she won the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, In 2023, Wilde starred as Sophie Western in the ITV period drama Tom Jones alongside Solly McLeod and Hannah Waddingham, and in the fantasy film The Portable Door with Christoph Waltz.

In 2024, Wilde was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award. That same year, she starred in the erotic thriller film Babygirl.

Wilde will star in a live-action film adaptation of the video game Watch Dogs alongside Tom Blyth directed by Mathieu Turi. In November 2025, it was reported that Wilde was cast in an untitled A24 horror film to be directed by Arkasha Stevenson.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2018 Bird Short film 2022 Talk to Me Mia 2023 The Portable Door Sophie Pettingel 2024 Babygirl Esmée Smith 2026 Post-production Post-production Filming

Television Year Title Role Notes 2021 Eden Scout Main role You Don't Know Me Kyra Miniseries; 4 episodes 2023 Tom Jones Sophia Western Miniseries; 4 episodes Everything Now Mia PolancoMain role 2024 Boy Swallows Universe Caitlyn SpiesMain role

Stage Year Title Role Notes 2020 Hamlet Ophelia Bell Shakespeare 2024 AACTA Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role Talk to Me Black Reel Awards Outstanding Lead Performance British Academy Film Awards Rising StarHerself Cannes Film Festival Trophée Chopard Saturn Awards Best Supporting ActressTalk to Me Critics' Choice Super AwardsBest Actress in a Horror Movie Logie Awards Best Supporting Actress Boy Swallows Universe