Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick is an English actress, writer and director, born on August 30, 1992, in Surrey, England. Of Singaporean-Chinese and English heritage, she trained at Redroofs Theatre School and with the National Youth Theatre. She debuted as Bo in the BBC series Spirit Warriors, becoming the first actress of East Asian descent to lead a British television series. She gained wider recognition as Nymeria Sand in Game of Thrones, X-wing pilot Jess Pava in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and martial artist Colleen Wing in Marvel's Iron Fist and The Defenders. Her films include Underwater, Love and Monsters, The Matrix Resurrections, The Gray Man, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and The Royal Hotel. As a filmmaker, she wrote, directed and starred in the BAFTA-nominated short Bus Girl. In Silo, Henwick plays journalist Helen Drew, whose investigation in the "Before Times" exposes a devastating conspiracy.