Chichester-born Bo Bragason does not remember her first film role, a small part in the 2007 Isabelle Huppert feature Hidden Love, shot when she was three years old and living with her family in Luxembourg. “I had no idea about it until a few years ago, which is crazy,” she says, with a laugh. “My mum told me.”
She evidently enjoyed the experience because after her family relocated to Cheshire, there followed drama classes at Knutsford Little Theatre and National Youth Theatre, professional auditions from the age of 11, and now a career that includes the title role in Sony Pictures’ upcoming big-screen videogame adaptation The Legend Of Zelda. “I’m lucky to have found my passion at such a young age,” she says.
Bragason has been working steadily since she was 17 years old, onstage opposite Rory Kinnear in Force Majeure at London’s Donmar Warehouse in 2021-22; in films such as The Radleys, with Damian Lewis and Kelly Macdonald; and on TV in Disney+’s Renegade Nell and BBC crime drama The Jetty. Each opportunity has progressed her career: Kinnear helped her prepare monologues for auditions as they sat backstage, while the role of manipulative Amy in The Jetty pushed Bragason as a performer and as a person.
“She is one of the most complex characters I’ve played,” she says. “But getting to see through her eyes helps me in life, navigating people I disagree with. It’s good, I think, to play flawed characters, just for a small period of time.”
The last year has been non-stop for Bragason, filming Zelda in New Zealand for director Wes Ball, and then Megan Park’s Sterling Point series for Prime Video in Toronto. She cannot speak yet about Zelda, beyond saying, “I’m excited to talk about it when I can; the wait will be worth it.” But she loved the filming experience. “The crew, incredible. Locations, insane, and just the overall vibe feels very spiritual over there.”
Now she is back home to life as a working actor. “I hadn’t auditioned for a year, so it’s good to get back, getting the bare minimum of a character and seeing what you can do with it,” she smiles. “It’s fun.”
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