Emily Carey is the name that's going to be on everyone's lips next year thanks to her turn as the teenage version of House of the Dragon’s Alicent Hightower.
The 19-year-old is making major waves in the industry and already has an impressive 15 acting credits to her name (according to imDb), and has played “six or seven younger versions of”. These include playing a 12-year-old version of Gal Gadot’s titular character in Wonder Woman (2017), and a 14-year-old Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (Alicia Vikander plays the lead) the following year - and she's only just getting started.
And tonight, Emily was the leading lady as she arrived on the GLAMOUR Women of the Year Awards 2022 red carpet, in partnership with Samsung.
Styled by Zadrian + Sarah, the thespian rocked a full Thom Browne look: a black suit and tie with aplomb and complemented the look with sporty socks and heeled sneakers. For her beauty look, Emily plumped for her signature smokey eye and glossy skin, serving serious vamp vibes. Into it.
Speaking recently to GLAMOUR about her latest role in House of Dragon, she said: "I'll be honest: it was petrifying, overwhelming and daunting. There have been a huge amount of tears! It's completely going in blind, into the unknown. I had no idea what to expect from it: I was not a fan of Games of Thrones, which I think was a good thing in a way that I wasn't freaking out in that sense. But of course everyone knows Game of Thrones. It's just strange as an actor to come into a world that belongs to the fans already, rather than fans, flocking to something we, as actors, have created. If that makes sense.
“Everyone knows how mammoth and how huge it is, but I didn't watch the show until we were in pre-production. I just think fantasy isn't my genre, you know, I'm more of a cheeky romcom kind of gal, which isn't, isn't very Game of Thrones-y at all, but it was when I watched it that I was like, oh, I get it now. I get the hype. It's so much more than dragons and stuff. It's very grounded, truthful characters and the stories and themes that a modern audience can relate to. There's so much more to it than what I thought it was. And hopefully this show will do the same thing and pull in more people.”
We're already hooked.
