Marisa Abela

Marisa Abela (birthname: Marisa Gabrielle Abela) is a British actor who has been most widely seen in the recurring role of Yasmin in HBO’s series, Industry (2020-present), and had her first role in features as age 8 in co-writer/director Steven Rhys Lewis’ British indie thriller, Man in a Box (2008), with Alister O’Loughlin and Claudine Sinnett. Abela played an eye-catching, acclaimed supporting role in writer-director Jamie Adams’ romantic U.K. drama, She Is Love (2022), starring Haley Bennett and Sam Riley, which premiered at the London Film Festival and was released by Signature Entertainment.

Abela landed the role of Teen Talk Barbie in Greta Gerwig’s hit comedy, Barbie (2023), starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, and Will Ferrell, and turned into one of the most profitable movies in Warner Bros. history with a knockout $1.44 billion. Abela landed her first starring role, as late pop singer Amy Winehouse, in the musical biopic, Back to Black (2024), directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and featuring Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan, and Lesley Manville, which was released in the U.S. by Focus Features and in select British Commonwealth territories by StudioCanal.