Isabella Laughland
Isabella Laughland is an actor, born 1991.
The Harry Potter films launched dozens of young British careers and quietly buried at least as many. Isabella Laughland, born in Hammersmith in 1991, appeared in Half-Blood Prince and both parts of Deathly Hallows, which is a line on a CV that opens doors for about eighteen months and then stops meaning anything.
Her conversion route was British independent film rather than instant television stardom. Urban Hymn in 2015 and Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool in 2017 put her in ensembles built around older leads, the boarding-school horror comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez gave her a genre credit in 2018, and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande in 2022 is the most visible thing she has been in, a small supporting part in a film that belongs entirely to its two leads.
Television has been the steadier employer, and the range of it is the point. She has passed through the single-room interrogation format of Criminal: UK, the BBC comedy Ghosts, the ITV drama Four Lives, the thriller Surface, and Foundation, where she plays a novice cleric in the most expensive science fiction currently being made. Add voice work on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and the shape is clear: a working character actor with an unusually good hit rate for prestige productions, rather than someone being groomed as a lead.
Finding Emily is listed for 2026.
Movies (6)
TV (6)
Where to start with Isabella Laughland
The easiest recommendation is also the best film here. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is small, talky and generous, and she is a supporting part of it rather than the point of it, which is a fair description of most of this list.
If you want her with more screen time, Urban Hymn and Now Is Good are the two British dramas that gave her real room early on, and Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is the most elegant production she has been near.
On television, Foundation is the largest canvas by a distance and the one to try first. Criminal: UK is the tightest, a format built out of one room and one conversation, which is a fair test of anybody. Slaughterhouse Rulez suits a specific mood only, and Ghosts is the gentle one to end on.