Background
Her mother is a teacher"s assistant and her father is a financial adviser.
Her mother is a teacher"s assistant and her father is a financial adviser.
Findlay attended Furze Platt Senior School in Maidenhead. At the end of her GCSEs, she was accepted to a number of ballet schools but chose to go to the Arts Educational School, because of the A-level courses it provided and its pastoral care. She attended for two years.
In her second year, she had three operations on her ankles, the last of which went wrong.
In 2014, she starred as Beverly Penn in the film adaptation of the Mark Helprin novel Winter"s Tale. The following year, she co-starred in Paul McGuigan"s Victor Frankenstein (2015). Findlay lives in Cookham, Berkshire.
Findlay trained with the National Youth Ballet and the Associates of the Royal Ballet.
At age 15, she was invited to dance with the Kirov at the Royal Opera House for a summer season. After this, she was told that she would never dance again.
She said that she always had acting in the back of her mind, but was never really able to go out and try lieutenant After encouragement from an art teacher, she finished her education at Arts Educational School, Tring Park and then moved on to a Fine Art course at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
Findlay was cast in the lead role of Emelia in the film Albatross, directed by Niall MacCormick.
She was subsequently cast in two episodes of the E4 programme Misfits and in Downton Abbey, she played the youngest daughter of the Grantham household for three seasons before subsequently leaving the show to move forward in her career. She appeared in the second episode of Channel 4"s Black Mirror. In 2012, she became the face of Dominic Jones" jewellery line, was cast in Not Another Happy Ending by John McKay, and in the miniseries Labyrinth, based on the novel of the same name written by Kate Mosse, portraying Alaïs Pelletier.
In 2012, she was cast as Beverly Penn in the film adaptation of the novel Winter"s Tale (2014) with Colin Farrell and Russell Crowe.
Tim Burton considered Findlay for the lead in his adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, but ultimately gave the role to Australian actress Mia Wasikowska. In March 2015, it was confirmed that she will star in the remake of The Crow, in which Findlay portrayed Shelly in a leading role.
In July 2015, Findlay played the role of emotionally conflicted stepmother Alice Aldridge in The Outcast, the British Broadcasting Corporation’s two-part television adaptation of Sadie Jones’ novel. In May 2015 Findlay made her theatre debut at the Almeida Theatre, London, as Electra in a new adaptation of The Oresteia to rave reviews.
The production later transferred to the Trafalgar Theatre in London"s West End.
The writer and director was Robert Icke, who cast Findlay in his production of Uncle Vanya at the same venue in February of the the following year.