Lara Peake (born ) is an English actress. On television, she is known for her roles in the Channel 4 series Born to Kill (2017) and the BBC Three series Mood (2022), and Reunion (2025). Her films include How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) and How to Have Sex (2023).
Early life and education Lara Peake was born in . She is from Nottingham, England. She has no formal training in acting, never having attended drama school, but joined the Inspire Academy in Nottingham, run by actor Luke Gell.
Career Peake had her initial breakthrough at the age of 15, when she was cast opposite George MacKay in Duane Hopkins' independent feature film Bypass. This earned her a spot on the 2015 longlist for the British Independent Film Awards "Most Promising Newcomer".
She has a lead role in the 2016 coming-of-age film Spaceship. She appeared in Jo Brand's 2016 comedy vehicle Damned on Channel 4, and appeared in Tracey Ullman's Show on the BBC. She appeared with Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning in the 2017 feature film How to Talk to Girls at Parties, adapted from a short story by fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. In the same year, she appeared in Channel 4's 2017 four-part psychological thriller series Born to Kill.
Peake appears in Final Score (2018) with Pierce Brosnan and Dave Bautista as a West Ham United fan who encounters terrorists during a match at the Boleyn Ground. In 2020 she appeared in the Netflix series The English Game written by Julian Fellowes, about the birth of professionalism in association football in Victorian England. Also in 2020, she played Madysun in the six-part series Brave New World.
In 2023, Peake appeared in How to Have Sex and was cast in the Disney+ television adaptation of Jilly Cooper's novel Rivals.
In 2025, she learnt British Sign Language in order to take a major role as the protagonist's daughter, Carly, in the BBC miniseries Reunion.
Filmography +Key Denotes productions that have not yet been released Film Year Title Role Notes 2014 Bypass Helen 2016 Spaceship Tegan2017 Firecracker Em Short film How to Talk to Girls at Parties Wainswain The Marker Cristina Vaduva 2018 Final Score Danni 2019 Parasomniac Lucy Short film 2021 Broken Shelter Amelie Short film 2023 How to Have Sex Skye One Hundred and Eighty Kay Short film. Completed Dog & Bull Lenny Post-production
Television Year Title Role Notes 2016 Damned Chantal Series 1; episode 42017 Tracey Ullman's Show Daughter Series 2; episodes 3 & 6 Born to Kill Chrissy Mini-series; episodes 1–42020 The English Game Betsy Cronshaw Mini-series; episodes 2–5 Brave New World Madysun Episodes 1–3 2022 Mood Carly Mini-series; episodes 1–62024 Halo Fern Season 2; episode 5: "Aleria" Rivals Daysee Butler Series 1; episodes 1–8 2025 Reunion Carly Episodes 1–4
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