Emma Mackey
09/13/2018 – Emma Mackey – Netflix’s “Maniac” World Premiere – Arrivals – Southbank Centre – Lambeth, London, UK – Photo Credit: Landmark / PR Photos
Birth Name: Emma Margaret Marie Tachard-Mackey
Place of Birth: Le Mans, Sarthe, France
Date of Birth: 4 January, 1996
Ethnicity:
*father – French
*mother – English, some Irish
Emma Mackey is a French-British actress. Her roles include the films Eiffel, Death on the Nile, and Emily (both 2022), and the show Sex Education.
She is the daughter of Rachel, a volunteer at a charity, and Philippe, a school headmaster. Her father is French and her mother is British. She was raised in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, and moved to England for college. She is a French and British citizen.
A maternal ancestor named Joseph Mackey was from Ballymackey, Tipperary, Ireland.
If Mackey is her mother’s last name, that’s not English.
She talks about her Irish roots here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/emma-mackey-no-not-all-french-people-want-to-have-sex-all-the-time-1.4286265