Aisling Franciosi

Aisling Franciosi is an acclaimed Irish-Italian actor who, while best known for her TV work in TNT’s Legends (2015), as Lyanna Stark in episodes of Game of Thrones (2016-2017), the BBC-produced Clique (2017), and the Nat Geo-produced Genius: Picasso (2018), has developed a fascinating screen career. Franciosi’s big-screen debut was in a supporting role in Ken Loach’s drama, Jimmy’s Hall (2014), with Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, and Jim Norton, and which premiered in the Palme d’Or competition at the Cannes film festival.

After acting in short films produced for the European Space Agency, Franciosi starred in an extraordinary performance in writer-director Jennifer Kent’s powerful Australian historical drama, The Nightingale (2018), with Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, and Michael Sheasby, and winning the Special Jury Lion Prize in its Venice film festival premiere, and released by IFC Films.

For her next big-screen role, Aisling Franciosi joined fellow actor Franka Potente in her debut as director-writer of Home (2020), a German-French-Dutch co-production starring Jake McLaughlin, Kathy Bates, Derek Richardson, and Stephen Root, and premiering at the Rome film festival. Franciosi co-starred opposite Emily Watson and Paul Mescal in the UK/Irish drama, God’s Creatures (2022), co-directed by Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer and premiering in competition in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight before worldwide release by A24.

Franciosi’s first Hollywood movie role was in the adaptation of a chapter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Universal/DreamWorks’ The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023), co-starring Corey Hawkins, Liam Cunningham, and David Dastmalchian. Franciosi earned a starring role in her second consecutive horror movie, director/co-writer Robert Morgan’s Stopmotion (date to be announced), with Tom York, Caoilinn Springall, and Jaz Hutchins. Franciosi then starred in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s drama, Rothko (2024), with Russell Crowe, Jared Harris, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Michael Stuhlbarg.