Angourie Rice

Angourie Rice is an Australian-born actor who began her feature film career as a twelve-year-old performer in Australian writer-director Zak Hilditch’s apocalyptic thriller, These Final Hours (2013), with Nathan Phillips and Sarah Snook, which premiered at the Melbourne Film Festival.

Rice appeared in a live-action role in the BBC Earth Films-produced animated/live-action movie, Walking with Dinosaurs (2013), with John Leguizamo, Justin Long, and Karl Urban, grossing $123.3 million worldwide for distributors 20^th Century Fox and IM Global. Rice then joined the cast of Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows (2016), the David Caesar-directed big-screen version of the popular Aussie TV dark fantasy teen series, Nowhere Boys, reuniting the original series ensemble of Dougie Baldwin, Joel Lok, Rahart Adams, Matt Testro, and Sean Rees-Wemyss.

Angourie Rice landed her first role in a Hollywood studio movie with The Nice Guys (2016), starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe under co-writer Shane Black’s direction, but losing money for Warner Bros. with a weak $63 million gross. In the Australian feature version of Craig Silvey’s novel, Jasper Jones (2017), Rice co-starred with Levi Miller, Aaron McGrath, Toni Collette, and Hugo Weaving.

Rice was cast by writer-director Sofia Coppola for her remake of The Beguiled (2017), with Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning, which earned a solid $27.4 million (on a $10 million budget) after premiering in competition at the Cannes film festival, where Coppola won the best director prize.

Rice scored a recurring role in a Marvel Cinematic Universe series co-produced with Columbia Pictures, as Betty Brant, in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), with Tom Holland, Zendaya, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, Donald Glover, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei, and Robert Downey Jr.

Angourie Rice starred in her first American movie with the Michael Sucsy-directed romantic teen fantasy, Every Day (2018), with Justice Smith, Debby Ryan, and Maria Bello, and earning over $10 million globally for Orion Pictures.

Rice won the Australian Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in co-writer/director Bruce Beresford’s comedy-drama, Ladies in Black (2018), co-starring Julia Ormond and Rachael Taylor, and released by Sony Pictures Releasing International. After voicing the title role in the animated children’s movie, Daisy Quokka: World’s Scariest Animal (2020), Rice played the younger self of the lead character (played by Rebel Wilson) in Netflix’s Senior Year (2022).

After starring in the Paramount+ streaming high school comedy, Honor Society (2022), Angourie Rice starred in the Tina Fey-written screenplay version of her book for the Broadway musical Mean Girls (2024), co-directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., produced by Lorne Michaels and Fey and with the ensemble of Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli’I Cravalho, Fey, Tim Meadows, Jenna Fischer, Busy Phillips, and Jon Hamm, and which was released by Paramount Pictures.