Mirren Mack

Mack was born in Stirling, Scotland.[2] From a young age, she was exposed to the entertainment industry, with her father, Billy, being an actor and her mother, Callan, being a drama tutor.[2] Her younger sister, Molly, is also an actress.[3] With sister Molly, she danced at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.[3] Mack went to Riverside Primary school and then Wallace High School in Stirling,[4] In year five at High School, Mack attended the Dance School of Scotland's Musical Theatre.[1] In 2016, she received the Dewar Arts Award for outstanding Scottish talent in the arts,[2] enabling her the opportunity to audition for a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama,[2] where she studied a Bachelor of Arts in Acting.[5][6]

Mack made her professional acting debut in a stage production of Bat Boy as Mayor Maggie,[7] at the Citizen's Theatre, for which she won the Musical Theatre Award and the drama award for her year.[2]

In 2019, Mack made her television debut in three episodes of the Netflix series Sex Education as Florence.[8][9] In 2020, Mack was cast in her first leading role as Kaya on the BBC drama series The Nest alongside Martin Compston and Sophie Rundle. [10] Mack came out of Covid lockdown to appear in the 7th series of Portrait Artist of the Year on Sky Arts.[11]

Mack began filming of the Netflix miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin in August 2021,[12] set in a time 1,200 years before The Witcher, and appeared in a main role as Princess Merwyn in a cast that includes Lenny Henry, Laurence O'Fuarain and Michelle Yeoh.[13] The series was released on Netflix on 25 December 2022.[14]

Stage performances have included the play Wound by Philip Ridley in 2020.[15] In 2022, as Ophelia in the Bristol Old Vic's adaption of Shakespeare's Hamlet.[16] and the same year as Queenie in Small Island at the Royal National Theatre in London.[15]

• Mirren Mack at IMDb
• |work= stirlingevents.org Mirren Mack – Sterling Events Tolbooth Talk, 18 June 2020