Eliza Jane Scanlen (born 6 January 1999) is an Australian actress. She rose to prominence portraying Tabitha Ford in the Australian soap opera Home and Away (2016), before receiving critical acclaim by playing a troubled teenager in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018). In 2022, she starred in the Showtime series The First Lady as young Eleanor Roosevelt. She made her film debut in 2019, with starring roles in the drama Babyteeth and Greta Gerwig’s period drama Little Women.
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Biography from TMDB.
- January 6, 1999 (27)
- Sydney, Australia
- Actor
- 10 on MovieCove · 24 credits in all
What are Eliza Scanlen's films like?
Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 2 · Dark 3
A split, not a type: Grounded 4 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 1
Gentle 0 · Charged 4 · Intense 3
Steady 1 · Shifting 6 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 1
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 1
Casual 1 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 3
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 6
A split, not a type: Resolved 4 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
Usually the Hero: 3 of 6 analyzed roles.
- Threshold guardianas Amma Crellin in Sharp Objects (2018)
- Heroas Milla in Babyteeth (2019)
- Allyas Lenora in The Devil All the Time (2020)
- Heroas Jem Starling in The Starling Girl (2023)
- Heroas Ellie in Caddo Lake (2024)
- Allyas Violet Davies in Dope Girls (2025)
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet5
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Eliza Scanlen's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Eliza Scanlen's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
24 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page.
Dope Girls(2025)
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Caddo Lake(2024)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Body of Water (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
How Can I Help You (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
The Starling Girl(2023)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
Mayfair Witches(2023)
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all shows
The First Lady (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Fires (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Old(2021)
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films
The Devil All the Time(2020)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Babyteeth(2019)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Mukbang (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Little Women(2019)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Love and Other Places (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Sharp Objects(2018)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
Grace (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Lacuna (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Home and Away (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)
All That I Am (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Fear Is the Rider (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Let It Come Down (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Margin of Error (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Unspeakable (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 96th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 24 titles, 19 of them dated from 1988 to 2025; peak year 2019.
Film career
Peak 2019 · steadily prominent in film for years. Top draw in 3 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1988Screen debut· Home and Away
- 2019First film· Little Women
- 2020First top-billed film· Babyteeth
- 2020Breakout· Babyteeth
- 2020Venice award win· Babyteeth
Billing
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.
Awards
Won a Venice award in 2019, Nave d'Argento for Best OTP.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Eliza Scanlen's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 83rd percentile, the median of all 7; across their 7 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 79th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up6
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
6 of their 10 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser6
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the acting 73/100 in their films, across 7 reviewed titles; fans 82, detractors 50. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Eliza Scanlen's work okay for kids?
Across up to 7 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity and profanity run heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Eliza Scanlen work with?
People who share at least 2 of Eliza Scanlen's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Shannon Murphy shares the most, 2.
Directors
- Shannon MurphyShared titles: Dope Girls (2025), Babyteeth (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Shannon Murphy
Producers
- Ashwin RajanShared titles: Caddo Lake (2024), Old (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Ashwin Rajan
- Catherine Wolf McGrathShared titles: Caddo Lake (2024), Old (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Catherine Wolf McGrath
- Jeff RobinsonShared titles: Caddo Lake (2024), Old (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Jeff Robinson
- Kara DurrettShared titles: Caddo Lake (2024), The Starling Girl (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Kara Durrett
