Aimee Lou Wood

Some Lesser Known Facts About Aimee Lou Wood

• Aimee’s parents got divorced when she was nine years old. Her mother works with Childline and her father is a car dealer.

  

• Aimee fell in love with acting while watching films with her parents. Her father introduced her to Oscar-nominated movies, and she used to watch classic 1980s movies with her mother.

• After her parent’s divorce, Aimee lived with her mother and stepfather, who supported her passion for acting. She also in an interview about her father’s addiction and how he would disappear for days without telling anyone, she further said,
  

  He would go out for a pint and not come back for days. He once went out and didn’t come back for 10 weeks because he’d been to the World Cup in Korea,”

• Aimee used to get bullied in school. She once said in an interview that she confronted her bully by texting him a message on Instagram. She said,
  

  It was quite a self-righteous rant, like, “Thank you for making me who I am”. But actually, he sent back the nicest reply. He said he’d been feeling guilt and shame about it for a long time – he’d been having an awful time at home when he was bullying me and he’d never been able to express how sorry he was.

• Aimee did a a six-month foundation acting course at the Oxford School of Drama before taking admission in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

• Aimee suffered from body dysmorphia and bulimia when she was studying in drama school.

• Aimee’s fortunes changed after she appeared as Aimee Gibbs in Netflix’s television series Sex Education which made her a star and changed her life.

  

• Aimee got her first lead role in the film Living (2022) opposite Bill Nighy, directed by Oliver Hermanus. The film is a British remake of the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru which received praise at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

• Aimee was one of more than two thousand people who signed an Artists for Palestine open letter to US President Joe Biden in response to the 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict. The statement called for a truce and accused Western nations of “not only tolerating war crimes but assisting them.”