Thomasin McKenzie

Thomasin McKenzie is one of those actors who makes you sit up and pay attention the moment she appears on screen, and she pulled that off at just 17 in Leave No Trace — a film that could have easily been forgotten but became something special almost entirely because of her. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 2000, she comes from a genuinely theatrical family, and it shows: there's a craft to her stillness that most young actors take decades to find, if they find it at all. She followed that breakthrough with sharp turns in Jojo Rabbit, Last Night in Soho, and Old, proving she's not picky about genre — she just picks interesting projects and then quietly outperforms everyone's expectations. She's twenty-something and already has a body of work that older actors would envy. I'm genuinely curious where she takes it next.

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Name (English)

Thomasin McKenzie

Name (Japanese)

トーマサイン・マッケンジー

Reading

とーまさいん・まっけんじー

Born

July 26, 2000 (age 26)

Origin

Wellington, New Zealand

Occupation

actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dragon

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thomasin.mckenzie/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomasin%20McKenzie
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28935124

Tags

• actor
• film actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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