Georgina Campbell (born 12 June 1992) is an English actress. Campbell made her acting debut at age sixteen in the web series Freak (2009). She won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Murdered by My Boyfriend (2014), making her the first black and first non-white actress to win that award. Her other television credits include The Ice Cream Girls (2013), Flowers (2016), Broadchurch (2017), the Black Mirror episode "Hang the DJ" (2017), Krypton (2018), The Pale Horse (2020), and Suspicion (2022). She made her film debut with a minor role in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017).
Campbell has been dubbed a "scream queen" for her starring roles in horror films such as Barbarian (2022), Bird Box Barcelona (2023), T.I.M. (2023), Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023), The Watchers (2024), Influencers (2025), and Cold Storage (2026). In 2019, Campbell was featured on Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list.
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Early life and education
Georgina Campbell was born on 12 June 1992 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, to a white English mother and a Jamaican father. Her mother is a retired teacher and her father is a police officer. She is the second of three daughters. After her parents divorced, she was primarily raised by her mother and stepfather in Dartford, Kent. She spent her younger years in Wilmington.
Before becoming an actor, Campbell wanted to be a flight attendant. Campbell graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2014.
Career
2009–2020
At 16, Campbell was scouted in the street for her first role as Lucy in the 2009 web series Freak. She had minor roles in series such as Casualty, Holby City, Doctors, and Death in Paradise. Campbell was 22 when she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her role as Ashley Jones in the BBC Three television film Murdered by My Boyfriend (2014), making her the first black and first non-white Best Actress winner.
In 2015, Campbell starred in the Sky 1 comedy drama After Hours as Jasmine. The first season was directed by Craig Cash and was broadcast in November 2015. She had a lead role in the TV mini-series Tripped (2015), a supporting role in the BBC drama mini-series One of Us (2016), and she appeared in Channel 4 black comedy series Flowers (2016).
In 2017, she made her film debut with a minor role in Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and appeared in the ITV drama series Broadchurch as DC Katie Harford, and in Black Mirror, series 4 episode 4, "Hang the DJ", as Amy. In 2018, she began playing Lyta-Zod in Syfy drama series Krypton.
In 2019, she appeared in one episode of HBO's fantasy drama television series His Dark Materials. In February 2019, Campbell was featured on Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list.
In 2020, Campbell appeared in the mystery-drama miniseries The Pale Horse, and in the sci-fi anthology series Soulmates.
2021–present
In 2021, Campbell appeared in her first horror film, Andrew Gaynord's comedy-horror All My Friends Hate Me.
In 2022, she starred in the critically acclaimed, commercially successful horror film Barbarian, directed by Zach Cregger.
In 2023, she co-starred in the post-apocalyptic horror thriller film Bird Box Barcelona, in the sci-fi thriller T.I.M., and in the horror film Lovely, Dark, and Deep.
In 2024, Campbell co-starred in the supernatural horror film The Watchers, directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan. In 2025, she starred in the horror thriller Influencers, directed by Kurtis David Harder.
In 2026, she will star in the horror thrillers Psycho Killer, directed by Gavin Polone; Cold Storage, directed by Jonny Campbell; The Shepherd, directed by John Hyams; and in an untitled four-part detective series for Netflix created by Charlie Brooker.
Campbell has been dubbed a "scream queen" by various media publications due to her frequent starring roles in horror films.
Personal life
Since 2019, Campbell has been in a relationship with American filmmaker Dawson Taylor, who directed her in the horror short film Otherkin (2022).