Eliza Scanlen

Acting

Eliza Scanlen

Born 1999-01-06 · Sydney, Australia

Eliza Jane Scanlen (born 6 January 1999) is an Australian actress. She rose to prominence portraying Tabitha Ford in the Australian soap opera Home and Away (2016), before receiving critical acclaim by playing a troubled teenager in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018). In 2022, she starred in the Showtime series The First Lady as young Eleanor Roosevelt. She made her film debut in 2019, with starring roles in the drama Babyteeth and Greta Gerwig’s period drama Little Women.

Acting credits

Old poster
6.3

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

Old

2021

Little Women poster
7.8

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Little Women

2019

The Devil All the Time poster
7.2

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

The Devil All the Time

2020

Caddo Lake poster
7.3

When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.

Caddo Lake

2024

Babyteeth poster
6.9

A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.

Babyteeth

2020

The Starling Girl poster
6.4

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

The Starling Girl

2023

National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest poster
8.0

Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade. Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.

National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

2025

No artwork available
NR

A young mother, Lil, struggles to connect with her newborn baby. Ashamed and exhausted, she tells no one. An ancient creature, that is drawn to mothers who are struggling, begins to circle, with a primal battle begins between the mother and the force.

Unspeakable

Let It Come Down poster
NR

A young couple travel to a secluded family home to restore it ahead of an appraisal survey. But their weekend is interrupted by an unexpected visitor whose presence tests the limits of mutual desire and causes passions to collide, leading to fatal consequences.

Let It Come Down

Love and Other Places poster
NR

A young girl momentarily escapes from the mundanities of her life and ultimately realizes what truly matters to her.

Love and Other Places

2018

Body of Water poster
NR

The short film was filmed during the directors' stay at the Eranos Foundation in Ascona-Moscia in the context of the Locarno Residency

Body of Water

2024

Fear Is the Rider poster
NR

John Shaw, a photojournalist arrives in Australia trying to recover from his experiences reporting on the Vietnam War. After meeting a young woman in a small-town bar, he decides to detour into the Outback to photograph cave paintings. Out there, under the baking sun, people can die within hours. But the elements are not the most hazardous thing in the bush, and Shaw and his mysterious companion soon find themselves caught up in an unrelenting fight for survival.

Fear Is the Rider

All That I Am poster
NR

A heroic true story about four German-Jewish literati-turned-anti-Nazi activists who are forced to flee to London following the rise of Adolf Hitler’s regime in Germany.

All That I Am

Lacuna poster
NR

There's always an irreparable gap left by the loss of someone you love. Calvin is constantly reminded of the gap Zoe created when she killed the only person he really had. For Zoe, Calvin is just a reminder of a past she wants to forget. But then again, maybe nothing's ever truly irreparable.

Lacuna

2016

Grace poster
NR

A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her Elders, when she strikes up an innocent relationship with a boy.

Grace

2017

Behind the camera