TIFF: Emma Mackey is ‘Emily’

By Abe Friedtanzer

Fans of Netflix’s beloved series Sex Education will surely be excited to learn that star Emma Mackey is playing the famed poet and "Wuthering Heights" author Emily Brontë, who died at age thirty after publishing an incredible work. Emily also marks the directorial debut of a terrific actress who does not appear in the film, Frances O’Connor (A.I., Mansfield Park). She has a fantastic TV series of her own worth checking out, The End, which is streaming on Showtime in the United States. It turns out that O’Connor has been a lifelong devotee of Brontë, and her passion for the subject shows in this finished product…

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