Imogen Poots is back on the big screen this week as see stars as Jess in A Long Way Down; an adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel.
Over the last couple of years, Poots has really been showing her versatility with roles in comedy, period, action, and horror project.
2-14 has already been a busy year for her with Need For Speed and That Awkward Moment under her belt, and she is quickly becoming one of Hollywood's hottest young actresses.
If you do not know Imogen Poots yet, you soon will...
The daughter of British television producer Trevor Poots and journalist Fiona Goodall, Poots found her love of acting when she attended the Youngblood Theatre Company as a teenager.
Making her small screen debut at the age of 18, Imogen followed in the steps of many a Hollywood name that has graced the hospital beds of Casualty including Kate Winslet, Pete Postlethwaite and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Her big screen debut came in a non-speaking role in the 2005, Wachowski sibling directed V for Vendetta, but dialogue and prominence was soon to follow in her second film outing as Tammy in 28 Weeks Later.
Over the past decade, Imogen has gone from strength to strength with supporting roles in Me and Orson Welles, Miss Austen Regrets and Solitary Man and nearly marrying Michael Fassbender’s Mr Rochester in the 2011 adaptation of Jayne Eyre.
In 2013, Poots ramped up the screen credits with a notable role in Filth playing the long-suffering only female officer in a corrupt police force alongside James McAvoy and the tragic daughter of adult entertainment entrepreneur Paul Raymond in The Look of Love.
Now in 2014, Poots is in demand, after locking lips in January with Zac Efron in the rom com That Awkward Moment, Poots she has just made her second appearance of the year alongside Aaron Paul, in fast paced, high octane Need for Speed.
Now she is back with life-affirming comedy drama A Long Way Down, calling it 'a dream part. The film focuses on four lost souls - a disgraced TV presenter (Pierce Brosnan), a foul-mouthed teen (Poots), an isolated single mother (Toni Collette) and a solipsistic muso (Aaron Paul) who decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year’s Eve.
When the disillusioned quartet of strangers meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot in London, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family, becoming media sensations as the Topper House Four and searching together for the reasons to keep on living.
The film sees Poots team up with filmmaker Pascal Chaumeil for the first time, as he returns to the director's chair for the first time since Un plan parfait.
With future roles coming up in the Jimi Hendrix biopic, Jimi: All is By My Side whose screenplay is from the 12 Years a Slave script writer John Ridley and the Terrence Malick directed Knight of Cups starring alongside Natalie Portman, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett, there’s no sign of the momentum behind this British star slowing down anytime soon.
A Long Way Down is out in UK cinemas March 21st
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