Annabelle Wallis has established herself as an actor capable of connecting with distinctive personalities, a skill she developed growing up between Portugal and England. Her early career was marked by casting challenges due to her multicultural background, until she gained recognition playing Grace Burgess in Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders opposite Cillian Murphy. The role launched her to prominence and led to her casting as the lead in Annabelle, the first spinoff film in the Conjuring universe, which became a commercial success and spawned multiple sequels.
Wallis’ character in Peaky Blinders was killed off at the start of season three, a decision made before the show became a global cultural phenomenon through Netflix. She has since revealed that creator Steven Knight expressed regret about the decision, suggesting he would have handled Grace’s story differently had he anticipated the character’s lasting appeal with audiences. Wallis returned to the series as a ghost in season five and has maintained a close relationship with Knight.
Throughout her career, Wallis has collaborated multiple times with director James Wan and actor Russell Crowe. Wan cast her in the cult horror film Malignant following her acclaimed performance in Showtime’s The Loudest Voice, where she portrayed Laurie Luhn alongside Crowe. Wallis recently indicated that Wan may be planning another project with her in the near future.
In her current role in Netflix’s Unabomber, Wallis portrays Christiana Morgan, a psychologist who co-created the Thematic Apperception Test alongside Henry Murray, played by Crowe. The series examines a controversial Harvard study from the late 1950s in which a teenage Ted Kaczynski underwent 200 hours of intensive psychological testing. Wallis expressed her belief that the study likely had a significant psychological impact on Kaczynski during his formative years, despite his own denial of its influence on his later crimes.
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