Angourie Rice ( ang-GOW-ree; born 1 January 2001) is an Australian actress. She began her career as a child actress, coming to attention for her roles in These Final Hours (2013) and The Nice Guys (2016). She played Betty Brant in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). For her starring role in Ladies in Black (2018), she won the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In 2024, she starred as Cady Heron in the musical film Mean Girls and Emily Raine in Finding Emily (2026)
Rice's television credits include the Black Mirror episode "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" (2019), the HBO miniseries Mare of Easttown (2021), and the Apple TV series The Last Thing He Told Me (2023).
She has also co-written two novels with her mother, author Kate Rice, titled Stuck Up & Stupid (2023) and My Wonderful Disgrace (2026). The former is being adapted as a Stan Original TV series, with Rice as lead actress.
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Early life and education
Angourie Rice was born on 1 January 2001 in Sydney, New South Wales. She was named after the town of Angourie, New South Wales, where her grandmother lived. Her parents are Jeremy Rice, a director, and Kate Rice, a writer. She lived in Perth for five years and in Munich, Germany, for one year before moving to Melbourne.
She attended Princes Hill Secondary College, graduating in 2018, but did not attend university due to growing success as an actress.
Career
Rice began her career in Perth, Western Australia, with several short films and Australian television credits. In 2012, Rice gained industry attention at just eleven years old with her lead role in Zak Hilditch's short Transmission, for which she won the Best Actress award at the St Kilda Short Film Festival.
In 2013, Rice made her feature film acting debut with apocalyptic thriller film These Final Hours. She also appeared in the live action sequences at the beginning and end of the animated film Walking with Dinosaurs. In 2014, Rice appeared in the television series The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Worst Year of My Life Again, and appeared in Mako: Island of Secrets in 2015.
In 2016, Rice had her break-out performance as Holly March in the action comedy The Nice Guys opposite Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. She also appeared in the science-fiction fantasy film Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows as Tegan, a supernatural villain. In 2017, she played Eliza Wishart in the Australian film adaptation of the novel Jasper Jones which garnered several AACTA nominations. She also played Jane in The Beguiled.
Rice played Betty Brant in the 2017 film Spider-Man: Homecoming. She reprised the part, this time in a more significant role, in the 2019 sequel Spider-Man: Far From Home. She reprised the role again in the web series The Daily Bugle, and yet again in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
In 2018, Rice headlined the romantic drama Every Day, and as Lisa in the Australian film adaptation of Ladies in Black for which she won an AACTA award for Best Lead Actress. In 2019, Rice starred opposite Miley Cyrus in the season 5 finale of Black Mirror, an episode described as a "save-the-day buddy romp" and "a teen sci-fi adventure". In 2021, Rice was listed in Variety magazine's coveted 'Actors to Watch' list, as well as their 'Power of Young Hollywood' list. She played the role of Siobhan in Mare of Easttown opposite Kate Winslet. She noted that the Delco accent (Delaware County, Pennsylvania) was hard to master and worked hard to tone down her Australian English.
Inspired by her book club activities, she began running the podcast The Community Library, with the aim of democratising critical reading skills, in 2019.
