Elizabeth Day
speaker
5,372 appearances
35 recordings
8 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 5d ago
Elizabeth Day’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She received four Emmy nominations across eight seasons and became internationally famous, going on to star in films including Terminator Genisys, Solo, A Star Wars Story and the romantic comedy Me Before You.
On stage, she won critical acclaim for her magnetic performance as Nina in The Seagull in the West End.
But the fact that she had been a complete unknown at the time of her Game of Thrones audition left Clarke feeling she had, in her words, imposter syndrome times a million.
It was not her only challenge.
In 2011, just after filming had wrapped on the debut season, she suffered the first of two life-threatening brain aneurysms, a shattering experience that later led to her setting up the charity Same You with her mother, Jenny.
Clarke's charity work in neurorehabilitation earned her an MBE in the 2024 honours list.
Now she returns to our screens in Ponies, a Cold War spy series on Sky and Now TV.
Clarke stars as one of the two US embassy secretaries in late 1970s Moscow who become CIA operatives after their husbands die in mysterious circumstances.
Still yet to turn 40, that happens later this year, Clarke's acting career has been one of notable highs.
But, she says, if there's anything else you can do, do that.
Because acting has to be the only thing you can do to commit to the levels of failure.
Amelia Clarke, welcome to How to Fail.
Thank you so much.
Well, you're amongst friends here.
Thank you for coming on How to Fail, but also thank you for being such a supporter of this podcast from the very, very early days.
It did not go unnoticed and it meant a lot.
Good.
I loved ponies.
Oh, good.
It's so good.
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