The film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews.
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She first played professional wrestler Paige in Fighting with My Family, a comedy-drama about Paige's career. Pugh starred in three major films in 2019, during which she was recognised as having experienced an international breakthrough.
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While divided on the series overall, Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair credited Pugh for being "terrific throughout" and added that she "smartly mixes earthiness with sophistication, wisdom with naïveté." Breakthrough and critical recognition (2019–present) She next starred in a six-part miniseries adaptation of John le Carré's spy novel The Little Drummer Girl, in which she played an actress who becomes embroiled in an espionage plot in the 1970s. Charles Bramesco of The Guardian found her to be "excellent despite her thankless role". Later that year, Pugh portrayed Elizabeth de Burgh in the Netflix historical film Outlaw King, co-starring Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce. She then played Cordelia to Anthony Hopkins' titular King Lear in Richard Eyre's television film King Lear and appeared in the short film Leading Lady Parts in support of the Time's Up initiative. In 2018, Pugh garnered a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award at the 71st British Academy Film Awards. She won the BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film for the role. Reviewing the film for Variety, Guy Lodge commended her portrayal of the character's "complex, under-the-skin transformation".
Pugh attributed her attraction to the part to her partiality for characters with "confusing or at least interesting" motivations. In the former, she played Katherine, an unhappily married teenage bride who grows violent. In 2016, Pugh starred in the independent drama Lady Macbeth, a film based on the novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov, and appeared in the first series of the ITV detective series Marcella. She was cast to portray a singer-songwriter in the dramedy pilot Studio City, co-starring Eric McCormack as the character's father, the following year. In the same year, the actress was nominated for Best British Newcomer at the BFI London Film Festival as well as for Young British / Irish Performer of the Year by the London Film Critics' Circle. Tara Brady of The Irish Times deemed Pugh "remarkable", while IndieWire's Oliver Lyttelton called her "striking". While still studying in sixth form, Pugh made her professional acting debut in the 2014 drama The Falling, playing a precocious teenager opposite Maisie Williams. Pugh at the 2014 BFI London Film Festival She was privately educated at Wychwood School and St Edward's School, Oxford, but disliked how the schools did not support her acting ambitions. Also at six years old, Pugh played Mary in a school nativity play, for which she spoke in a Yorkshire accent. They lived there until she was six, at which point they moved back to Oxford. The family relocated to Sotogrande in Spain when Pugh was three years old, hoping the warmer weather would improve her health. She suffered from tracheomalacia as a child, which led to frequent hospitalisations. The daughter of dancer Deborah and restaurateur Clinton Pugh, she has three siblings: actor and musician Toby Sebastian, actress Arabella Gibbins, and Rafaela "Raffie" Pugh.
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