Emily Head
Quick Facts
Biography
Emily Rose Head (born 15 December 1988) is an English actress, best known for her breakout role as Carli D'Amato inThe Inbetweeners and for portraying Rebecca White in the ITV soap Opera Emmerdale.
Early life
Emily Head is the elder daughter of actor Anthony Head. She attended the BRIT School in Croydon, where she completed a BTEC course in acting andwas a schoolmate of singers Katy B and Adele.
Career
Head played a supporting role as Carly D'Amato in E4's sitcom, The Inbetweeners from 2008 until 2010 as well as appearing in its film The Inbetweeners Movie.
Head also appeared in an episode of M.I. High, in which she played an evil mastermind involved in a bank scam.
In 2011, she appeared alongside Coronation Street star Craig Gazey in Jason Hall's play Third Floor.
In December 2011, Head played Melissa Milcote in the Bristol Old Vic production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy at the Colston Hall in Bristol.
In 2013, it was announced she would be appearing in the forthcoming Bravo drama Rita, playing the title character's daughter.
In 2014, she played the iconic role of Angela "Ange" in an in-the-round production of Abigail's Party at Leicester's Curve.
Emmerdale
In September 2016, it was announced Head would be joining the cast of the popular soap opera Emmerdale, playing the role of Rebecca White. Rebecca is the daughter of Lawrence White (John Bowe), half-sister of Chrissie White (Louise Marwood) and aunt of Lachlan White (Thomas Atkinson). Head made her first appearance as Rebecca on 11 October 2016. Head's character left Emmerdale in an episode airing November 2, 2018.