Evanna Lynch

Acting

Evanna Lynch

Born 1991-08-16 · Termonfeckin, Ireland

Evanna Patricia Lynch (born 16 August 1991) is an Irish actress and activist. She is best known for portraying Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter film series. Born in County Louth, Ireland, Lynch made her film debut in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and reprised her role in successive sequels to critical praise, concluding with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). Lynch appeared in G.B.F. (2013), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to positive reviews. She made her stage debut in Houdini as Bess Houdini, which toured the UK in 2013. Lynch starred in the indie drama My Name Is Emily, which premiered at the 2015 Galway Film Fleadh to critical acclaim. In 2017, Lynch starred in revival of Disco Pigs at the Trafalgar Theatre in London. In 2018, she competed and scored third place on season 27 of Dancing with the Stars. She went on to star in the British stage adaptation of The Omission of the Family Coleman at the Theatre Royal, Bath in 2019. As an activist, Lynch advocates for veganism and animal rights. She has been involved with several non-profit organisations and launched both a vegan-themed podcast and the cruelty-free cosmetics brand Kinder Beauty Box.

Acting credits

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 poster
8.1

Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 poster
7.7

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince poster
7.7

Dumbledore tries to prepare Harry for the final battle with Voldemort while Death Eaters wreak havoc in both Muggle and Wizard worlds.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix poster
7.7

When a new professor's methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches students how to defend against the dark arts.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2007

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts poster
7.3

An enchanting making-of story told through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations, inviting fans on a magical first-person journey through one of the most beloved film franchises of all time.

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

2022

Madness in the Method poster
5.2

Jason wants to be taken more seriously as an actor, so he asks his friend Kevin Smith for advice, and decides to become a method actor. Trouble is, being a method actor drives him mad and he slowly becomes a serial killer.

Madness in the Method

2019

My Freaky Family poster
7.0

On the cusp of her 13th birthday, Betty Flood – budding musician and magical being – just wants to be like the rest of her fabulous, but very different family, so why is her magical Mum so against it? As Betty wrestles with this, she also learns the amazing truth about her family and discovers that the not so normal, the magical and the musical are all a part of her fabulously freaky family. It's very freaky, so be freaked freaky ahh deaky peaky neaky seaky peaky poo.

My Freaky Family

2024

SEED poster
NR

A man is inducted into a surreal collective to prepare him for fatherhood. Though baffled by this new world, he begins to embrace the new task at hand until tragedy strikes, testing his newfound resolve.

SEED

2026

Danny & the Human Zoo poster
6.4

A dramatised account of the early life and career of impressionist, comedian and actor Lenny Henry.

Danny & the Human Zoo

2015

My Name Is Emily poster
6.8

Packed off to a foster home after her father is insti­tu­tion­al­ized, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of the hospital where he's been confined.

My Name Is Emily

2016

Gardening poster
NR

In the aftermath of sexual assault, a woman retreats into the garden of her mind. Searching for answers and struggling to do 'the right thing', she realizes that she must regain her voice and find new paths to healing, before she and her garden are destroyed completely.

Gardening

2024

Other Half poster
6.0

As an Individual Being in a world comprised of Merged Couples, Ren longs to find his other half and become complete.

Other Half

2021

Bus Girl poster
4.3

The story of an aspiring young female chef, June, as she navigates the cutthroat world of high end cooking.

Bus Girl

2022

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic poster
7.3

A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story through objects in their collection, in an ambitious new exhibition: Harry Potter: A History Of Magic. J.K. Rowling, who is lending unseen manuscripts, drawings and drafts from her private archives (which will sit alongside treasures from the British Library, as well as original drafts and drawings from Jim Kay) talks about some of the personal items she has lent to the exhibition and gives new insight into her writing, looking at some of the objects from the exhibition that have fired her imagination.

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

2017

Addiction: A 60's Love Story poster
4.2

Family man Max Bornstein was a full-time dope fiend working within the underground, highly illegal pornography industry in 1968’s New York City. While running books and films to delivery points and mob headquarters around the east coast, Max had the Feds on his tail. But even in the wake of a federal investigation, his truest worry was his wife and two young children, a family kept in the dark about his dealings and the walls of it caving in around him. As he battles his consuming addiction, dissolving family unit and the growing suspicion about his drug use amongst his associates, Max watches helplessly as his well-crafted reality falls to pieces, leaving him searching for the spaces in between.

Addiction: A 60's Love Story

2015

Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley poster
7.9

An inside look into the creation of Universal Studio's Diagon Alley attraction.

Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley

2014

It Don't Come Easy poster
NR

'It Don't Come Easy' is a story of magical realism about a shy, retiring wallflower named Ella who receives a journal that gives her the power to change the actions of people around her. She is shown a world where she can make her dreams come true, only to learn it is not the reality she desires.

It Don't Come Easy

2013

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NR

When Gwen arrives at a hotel which was recently the scene of a brutal murder, receptionist Sophie assumes she has met a fellow true crime enthusiast; however, it soon becomes apparent that Gwen’s interest is far more personal.

Each Coming Night

You Eat Other Animals? poster
8.0

You Eat Other Animals? is a short comedy in which two female aliens are about to show two happy-go-lucky male Earthlings untold wonders when they discover something stomach-churning about their guests. It is directed by Ed Wiles and stars Evanna Lynch, Anna Ballantine, James Eeles and Michael Jinks.

You Eat Other Animals?

2021

Sandwich Man poster
NR

Sequel to the 2022 film "Bus Girl".

Sandwich Man

Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity poster
NR

"Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity" imagines and pays tribute to Lucia Joyce at 'full capacity', referencing Berenice Abbott's iconic photograph of Lucia in her silver fish costume, and WB Yeats's Abbey Theatre Ballets.

Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity

2019

G.B.F. poster
5.9

The bitter fight for supremacy between the three most popular girls at North Gateway High takes an unexpected turn when their classmate, Tanner, is outed and becomes the school’s first openly gay student. The trio races to bag the big trend in fashion accessories, the Gay Best Friend, while Tanner must decide whether his skyrocketing popularity is more important than the friendships he is leaving behind.

G.B.F.

2014