Olivia Cooke by David Urbanke for The Laterals #7 Winter 2022

Olivia Kate Cooke (born 27 December 1993) is an English actress. She is known for her starring role as Emma Decody in the A&E drama thriller series Bates Motel (2013–2017) and as Becky Sharp in the period drama miniseries Vanity Fair (2018). She also starred in the horror film Ouija (2014), the comedy-drama film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), the period horror mystery film The Limehouse Golem (2016), the thriller film Thoroughbreds (2017), Steven Spielberg's sci-fi film Ready Player One (2018), and the drama film Sound of Metal (2020). In her latest role, she plays Alicent Hightower in the HBO television series House of the Dragon (2022).