Emily Fairn was born on the 16th of September 1998 in Liverpool and was raised in Stockbridge Village, a place she refers to by its nickname, 'Canny Farm'. Having grown up with a mother who worked in a bank, a fruit and veg importer father and a little sister, Fairn was the first in her family to move out of Liverpool. A self-confessed nerd, she was an academic child, imagining that she'd study mathematics at Oxford or Cambridge, but was sidetracked by her love of National Youth Theatre. When she was 15, her mother secretly had signed her up for a youth program at the National Youth Theatre in Liverpool where she discovered that she wanted "to live here, and do this forever". Leaving St Edwards College, Liverpool, it was on her 18th birthday that Emily was given the greatest gift she'd ever received, to study at drama school. It was all she wanted, and her mother offered to help, covering application fees and accompanying her to London for auditions and she ended up at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After graduation in 2020, Covid brought the industry to a halt; her final year leaving her in a temporary limbo. She settled in London, got a job in a vintage shop on Brick Lane to pay the bills, did callbacks for Jaffa Cakes adverts and sent auditions 'off into the abyss', until she was cast as Casey opposite Martin Freeman in the Liverpool-set BBC procedural 'The Responder' (2022). She remembers her mum and sister driving by the set at night in their pyjamas to see her at work. Creator Tony Schumacher, director Tim Mielants and executive producer Freeman had rolled the dice on the inexperienced Fairn, impressed by her refreshing take on the pivotal role. Doing the odd self-tape here and there, nothing was happening at the time until her agent rang to say she'd heard about this Liverpool-based drama that was on the horizon and the producers wanted Emily to audition for the role of a young heroin addict. Emily says, "I was lucky that there was a scouse TV show with a young lead that I was right for. I know that it's not that easy for everyone. I was lucky." It was 'The Office' and 'Sherlock' star Freeman himself, executive producer and lead actor on 'The Responder', who spotted Fairn and gave her a leg up into the industry: Emily continues, "We had a chemistry reading. He was so lovely. He really wanted me to get the part. I've got everyone to thank for the opportunity, but when we wrapped, I said to Martin: you have changed my life. He was like 'oh shut up'." As Casey, the incorrigibly mischievous drug addict, she portrayed a troubled youth with heartbreaking authenticity.
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Having made her debut television role in 'The Responder' she appeared as the dim-witted girlfriend of the ex-husband in the chicken factory musical 'Chuck Baby' (2023), as Frida in an episode of the BBC One dark comedy series 'Rain Dogs' (2023) and a role in the episode 'Demon79' from the sixth series of 'Black Mirror' (2023) on Netflix. She also had a role in 4 episodes of the Sky One political thriller 'Cobra', and also in 2023 Emily received acclaim for her stage debut role in the the SoHo Place Theatre West End production of 'Brokeback Mountain'. The Evening Standard said she showed "startling assurance for her debut, while the London Theatre wrote, 'Emily Fairn makes a fantastic stage debut as Ennis’s wife Alma – confused, afraid, embarrassed, and angry about the failure of their marriage. There were also a string of parts, many of them in stylised period pieces; in the 17th-century drama series romp 'Mary & George' in which she played the maid to an aristocrat played by Julianne Moore; Jason Reitman’s biopic 'Saturday Night', a love letter to New York in 1975 and as Lily in the '60s medical drama biopic 'Joy', all in 2024.
Next came a starring role in 'The House of Guinness' (2025), as Anne Plunket née Guiness, the eldest sibling and only daughter of the Guinness family. In the shadowed streets of 1860s Dublin, the death of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness plunges his four children into bitter turmoil as they grapple with their father’s immense legacy and compete for control of the iconic family empire. A review states, 'The show’s strengths lie in its stellar performances: Anthony Boyle’s Arthur brims with brooding intensity, whilst Emily Fairn’s Anne offers an emotionally grounded counterpoint of moral clarity.'
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