The Chronicle, Autumn 2018

27 ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE

The Grown Up Teddies Girl Florence Pugh, who left St Edward’s in 2014, launched her screen career whilst still in the Sixth Form after being cast in The Falling , a film about a mysterious fainting epidemic at a girls’ school in the 1960s. This

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early success was swiftly followed by a whirlwind year in 2016 when she was named a Breakthrough Brit by BAFTA and won the Evening Standard’s Breakthrough of the Year Award. Since then, she has starred in countless productions, including William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth , based on Nikolai Leskov’s Russian novella, Lady Macbeth of Mtensk – ‘a delicious performance from Pugh as a watchful, lustful, ruthless woman who refuses to submit to her fate’ – and as Cordelia in Richard Eyre’s BBC adaptation of King Lear alongside Anthony Hopkins, Emily Watson, Jim Broadbent and Emma Thompson. She can currently be seen on the small screen as Charlie Ross in Park Chan-Wook’s stylish adaptation of John le Carré’s The Little Drummer Girl – ‘there are lots of wonderful clothes and dodgy haircuts’. Regular viewers will be eagerly awaiting the final episode which airs in December.