Cailee Spaeny

Cailee Spaeny is my favorite kind of young actor: the one who disappears. From genre blockbusters to prestige miniseries, she keeps choosing characters who look ordinary and turn out to be the gravitational center of the story. The Volpi Cup in 2023 confirmed what I had long suspected, that her stillness is a technique, not a limitation. She underplays where her peers oversell, and the camera rewards her for it every time. Add a genuine singing background and you have a performer with more tools than she has yet shown. I would bet on her having the longest career of her generation, precisely because she never seems to chase the spotlight.

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Name (English)

Cailee Spaeny

Name (Japanese)

ケイリー・スピーニー

Reading

けいりー・すぴーにー

Born

July 24, 1998 (age 28)

Origin

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Occupation

film actor / singer / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

Awards & achievements

• 2023 Volpi Cup for Best Actress

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/caileespaeny/
• Xhttps://x.com/CaileeSpaeny
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cailee%20Spaeny
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43387663

Tags

• Tennessee
• film actor
• singer
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.