Jessica Barden

  Jessica Barden (born 21 July 1992) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Alyssa in the Channel 4 comedy-drama series The End of the F***ing World (2017-2019). She has also made appearances in films including Hanna (2011), The Lobster (2015), The New Romantic (2018) and Pink Skies Ahead (2020). Barden was born on 21 July 1992 in Northallerton, North Yorkshire. When she was three, she moved with her parents to Wetherby, West Yorkshire. She attended Wetherby High School. Barden's acting debut came in 1999 with a small role in an episode of the television series My Parents Are Aliens. She later appeared in episodes of the series No Angels and The Chase. In March 2007, she started appearing in the role of Kayleigh Morton on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, continuing until September 2008, when the Morton family left Coronation StreetIn 2007 Barden made her film debut in the comedy-drama Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution. In 2009 she played the part of Pea in the stage production Jerusalem at the Royal Court Theatre in London before being transferred to the Apollo Theatre in the West End.In 2010, Barden appeared in the film Tamara Drewe,a dramatisation of the comic strip of the same name. The following year she played the role of Sophie in the film Hanna. Between 2012 and 2015 she appeared in the urban horror Comedown, costarred in the mystery film In the Dark Half, and had a role in the psychological thriller Mindscape. In 2014, she appeared in the American independent movie Lullaby. In July 2015, Barden played the role of Kit Carmichael in the BBC's two-part television adaptation of Sadie Jones' debut novel The Outcast. The same year she played the role of Liddy in a film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd.