Nathalie Emmanuel

Nathalie Emmanuel (birthname: Nathalie Joanne Emmanuel) is best known for her role as Missandei on HBO’s landmark series, Game of Thrones (2011-2019), but has had several big-screen roles, especially in big-budget spectacles. She started with the modest British thriller, Twenty8k (2012), starring Parminder Nagra and Stephen Dillane. Emmanuel was cast in a supporting role in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), the second installment in the Maze Runner series, starring Dylan O’Brien, Kyle Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito, Barry Pepper, Lili Taylor, and Patricia Clarkson, under Wes Ball’s direction, and which grossed a solid $312 million globally.

Emmanuel’s most significant running role in the Fast & Furious franchise (under several different directors) as Ramsay in the James Wan-directed Furious 7 (2015), followed by the F. Gary Gray-directed The Fate of the Furious (2017), the Justin Lin-directed F9 (2021), and the Louis Letterier-directed Fast X (2023), all starring regulars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, and Jordana Brewster, with the movies grossing a cumulative $4.2 billion worldwide; Emmanuel continued with her Ramsay role in Fast X: Part 2 (2026), again directed by Letterier.

Nathalie Emmanuel earned her first starring role in a theatrical release with Screen Gems/Sony Releasing’s horror movie, The Invitation (2022), directed by Jessica M. Thompson and loosely adapted from Bram Stoker’s Dracula by screenwriter Blair Butler, earning a good $38 million (on $10 million costs). Emmanuel was then cast opposite Mark Wahlberg in writer Michael Brandt’s book-to-movie adaptation of the true-life adventure, Arthur the King (2024), directed by Simon Cellan Jones and featuring Simu Liu, Juliet Rylance, Ali Suliman, Bear Grylls, and Paul Guilfoyle, and released by Lionsgate.

Emmanuel was then cast in the co-lead role opposite co-stars Adam Driver and Forest Whitaker in Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited sci-fi epic, Megalopolis (2024), with a colorful cast including Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman, Shia LaBeouf, Talia Shire, Grace VanderWaal, D.B. Sweeney, Dustin Hoffman, and Giancarlo Esposito. Emmanuel, in another major starring role, joined another legendary filmmaker, John Woo, for the English-language remake of his original 1989 Hong Kong action classic, The Killers (2024), co-starring Omar Sy and Hugo Diego Garcia.

Nathalie Emmanuel co-starred in director-star David Harewood’s 1990s-set British boxing movie, Benn/Eubank (date to be announced), with a cast including Joshua Maynard, David Jonsson, and O-T Fagbenle.