Gayle Rankin
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Gayle Rankin is a Scottish actress born in Paisley who grew up in Eaglesham and Kilmaurs. She attended Mearns Castle High School before completing sixth form at Knightswood Secondary School's Dance School of Scotland. At 17, Rankin earned a scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York City, becoming the institution's first Scottish student. She was also awarded an international fellowship to study in Sydney, Australia.
Rankin made her acting debut in 2012 in a season 13 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2017, she took on the role of Sheila the She-Wolf in the Netflix series GLOW, which premiered on June 23, 2017, and ran through a third season that debuted on August 9, 2019. That same year, she appeared in The Meyerowitz Stories, directed by Noah Baumbach, which premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and was released by Netflix on October 13, 2017, as well as in The Greatest Showman alongside Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams.
In 2018, Rankin appeared in Irreplaceable You, directed by Stephanie Laing and released by Netflix on February 16, 2018, opposite Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Michiel Huisman. That year she also appeared in In a Relationship, directed by Sam Boyd, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 20, 2018, and in Her Smell, directed by Alex Ross Perry, opposite Elisabeth Moss and Agyness Deyn. Additional film credits include Blow the Man Down and The Climb, both from 2019.
In 2020, Rankin was cast as Emily Dodson, the mother of a kidnapped child, in the HBO series Perry Mason. In April 2023, it was announced she had been cast as Alys Rivers in the second season of HBO's House of the Dragon.
On Broadway, Rankin first appeared in the 2014 revival of Cabaret, playing Fräulein Kost. She returned to the production in 2024 to star as Sally Bowles opposite Eddie Redmayne. For that performance, she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical at the 77th Tony Awards, as well as a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical.
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