Trivia

She got the call to audition for Killing Eve (2018) while nursing a hangover, following a party night with friends at a music festival in Barcelona. Despite feeling that she had little chance, she took the 13-hour flight to Los Angeles anyway. After five minutes in reading with Sandra Oh, she landed the part.

She has no formal acting training.

Before her acting career took off, she was a checkout girl in a Tesco supermarket and worked in a bar for some time.

In 2019, at the age of 26, she became the youngest winner of the Emmy in the category "Best Actress in a Drama Series", a record previously held by Lindsay Wagner, who was 28. One year later, the record was broken by Zendaya, who won the Emmy at the age of 24.

As of 2019 still lives with her parents Jimmy and Donna in Liverpool where her dad works for Everton Football Club.

On several occasions in her career, she had auditioned for a number of theatre projects. Even though the directors liked her performances, she was still rejected, because she had no acting or theatre training. Eventually, she landed the leading role in National Theatre Live: Prima Facie (2022), much to critical acclaim. It would earn her a Laurence Olivier Award.

While filming their scenes in Good Cop (2012), Stephen Graham was so impressed by her talent that he proceeded to call his agent Jane Epstein. Following his recommendation, Epstein arranged a meeting with Jodie and later became her agent. This resulted in a boost in her acting career. When she won her BAFTA award for Killing Eve (2018), she thanked Graham for introducing her to Epstein and making her career possible.

She nearly choked to death while eating pasta when she filmed the Killing Eve (2018) episode Wide Awake (2019). Her scene partner, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, thought that she was simply making it up for the scene. Fortunately, a medic arrived in time and prevented the worst. She later commented in an interview that the incident has ruined pasta for her. Additionally, she was left constipated for two weeks due to the amount of pasta she had eaten for hours.

She turned down the chance to appear in Strictly Come Dancing (2004). Instead, she went with her mother and her grandmother to the studio to watch it live.

She is a supporter of Tyred, a Liverpool-based road safety charity that campaigns for outlawing old coach tyres.

Is a huge Bruce Springsteen fan.

Attended St Julie's Catholic High School in Liverpool with British track & field athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson.