Born on 28 November 1987 in Inverness, Scotland, Karen Sheila Gillan was an artistically talented child, learning the piano at the age of seven and falling in love with acting.
At the age of 16, Gilan moved to Edinburgh and completed the HNC Acting and Acting course at Telford College. She moved to London at the age of 18 and studied at the Conti Academy of Dramatic Arts in Italy, and at 1.8m tall, she was born with red hair, a slender body and fair skin, and was discovered by a modeling agency to become a model, and made her debut at London Fashion Week in 2007. Karen Gillan said that she would not give up her acting career to return to modeling, and said that although she loves modeling, acting has always been her passion. is her main interest and goal.
Gillan's early television career consisted of cameo appearances on various television shows, with her first role being in an episode of the ITV crime drama Drawing Snakes, where she had to drop out of school for filming.
Gillan then spent two years as a member of the cast of the comedy sketch series The Kevin Bishop Show, in which she played several roles, including celebrities such as Katy Perry and Angelina Jolie. In 2008, she starred in the Channel 4 TV movie "Stacked".
Gillan then played Amy Pound, a companion of the Eleventh Doctor (played by Matt Smith), in the British science fiction series Doctor Who. Prior to her role in May 2009, she played the role of a soothsayer in the fourth episode of the Doctor Who series, "The Fire of Pompeii". She made her on-screen debut as Amy in Eleventh Hour, while her cousin Caitlin Blackwood played a younger version of the same character, and in 2010 she won the Scottish Youth Award in the Entertainment category. She starred in the sixth season of Doctor Who in 2011 and appeared in the first five episodes of the seventh season in 2012, after which her character and Rory Williams (played by Arthur Darvel) left the show. Karen Gillan reprises her role in the 2013 Christmas special, The Doctor's Age, coinciding with Smith's resignation as the Doctor, perfectly ending her performance in the series.
In 2011, Gilan made his theater debut alongside Douglas Hodge as Shirley in John Osborne's play Unacceptable Evidence. The play premiered at Donmar Warehouse in October 2011. After her appearance in Outcast, it was announced that Karen Gillan would star in an independent Scottish romantic comedy called Not Another Happy Ending with Aemon Elliott in August 2011. Director John McKay chose her because he met her during the filming of Conquest of Manhattan, which he also directed because she was "a very lively, energetic, energetic, funny, somewhat clumsy person" who fits the character perfectly. Although Elliott was replaced by Stanley Webb. Karen Gillan told reporters she was delighted to be involved in a Scottish production that "had nothing to do with drug use or fighting the British", which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2013.
In 2012, Gillan played supermodel Gene Strington in the TV movie "Conquest of Manhattan", which tells the story of Shrympton's relationship with cinematographer David Bailey.
In November 2013, Gillan performed a play on Broadway called Time for Action, which is one of the plays included in the "24 Hours of Broadway" to provide funding to the nonprofit Urban Arts Cooperative. She also starred in the third season of A Touch of Cloth, co-written by Charlie Brooke.
In 2013 Gillan starred in the supernatural horror film Ghost Blinding, which was filmed in Alabama and premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. She was well received for her outstanding performance and was nominated for Best Actress at the Terror Meter Awards.
In February 2014, Gillan starred in the ABC-produced American single-camera sitcom Reinventing the Lady, produced by Warner Bros. and aired in the 2014-2015 U.S. television season. Gillan plays a socialite named Eliza Doolittle, a modern-day version of Eliza Doolittle who is obsessed with social media. This is the first time that Gillan has played the lead role in an American TV series. The show was canceled by ABC on November 7, 2014, after seven episodes, and the remaining six episodes were available on Hulu from November 25, 2014. The sexy and beautiful woman in "Recreating the Lady" quickly made her popular, and Chinese audiences also paid attention to her because of this TV series, and still has a loyal Chinese fan base many years after it aired.
In May 2013, Karen Gillan played Nebula in the Marvel superhero sci-fi movie "Guardians of the Galaxy", Karen Gillan shaved her head for this role, and Marvel turned it into a wig that Karen Gillan wore when making "Selfie", although her face cannot be seen in the movie, but her slender figure and slender thighs are eye-catching, and she has also become famous because of this role.
In May 2014, Karen Gillan starred in the western film "Valley of Violence" directed by Ty West, opposite John Travolta, Ethan Hawke and Tessa Farmiga. Karen Gillan plays Alan, the older sister of Farmica's character.
In 2015, Gillan starred in the Adam McKay-directed feature film The Big Short alongside Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Melissa Leo. Her first short film, Coward, was screened at the 2015 Edinburgh Film Festival and was nominated for several awards. In the same year, she wrote, directed and starred in another short film, Conventional. She won the 20th Empire Awards for Best Female Newcomer for "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Ghost Blinding".
In November 2016, Gillan wrote, directed and starred in her feature film debut, in collaboration with Burbank-based development and production company Mt. Hollywood Films' independent theatrical project, Tupperware Party. Set in her hometown of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, the film began filming in January 2017 and was completed the following month. The title was later changed to "The Party Has Just Begun". The film was nominated for Best Feature Film at the British Academy's Scottish Awards.
In 2017, Gillan played the role of Nebula again in "Guardians of the Galaxy". This time he became part of the film's eponymous team and co-starred with Emma Watson, Tom Hanks and John Boyega in The Circle, directed and written by James Ponsoldt and based on the novel by Dave Eggers.
That same year, Karen Gillan played the heroine Ruby Rondhaus in the third installment of the Jumanji series, Jumanji: Battle for the Jungle, starring Alongside Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Nick Jonas. She then played Nebula again in the successive filming of "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Avengers: Endgame". Filming of the two films began in January 2017 at the Pinewood Atlanta studio in Fayette County, Georgia.
In 2019, in addition to starring in Avengers 4: Endgame, she co-starred in the films Uber Crisis and Agent Transformation, and starred in Under All Beings. Also in 2019, she played the role of Ruby Roundhouse again in Jumanji 2: Battle for the Top, and starred in a short film called Neurotica. In 2020, Gillan starred in the adventure drama Call of the Wild, based on the Jack London novel. The following year, she starred in the action film Gunpowder Milkshake with Lena Heidi, Angela Bassett, Carla Guchino, Michelle Yeoh and Paul Giamaati. For this role, she was nominated for the second Critics' Choice Super Award for Best Actress in an Action Film.
In 2021, Disney-branded television announced that Gillan would be starring in the upcoming Disney TV Animation and the 20th TV animated series, Rhona Who Lives by the River, and Karen Gillan would serve as the show's executive producer alongside series creator Emily Capunek and series executive producer composer Danny Eifman.
In 2022, she starred with Aaron Paul in the sci-fi thriller Double Body, which was filmed entirely in Tampere, Finland. She played two roles by herself, and her acting skills won praise. Critics on Rotten Tomatoes agreed that the film was "well led," and The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFort said that "Karen Gillan has spent most of the decade since 'Doctor Who' played robots, computer avatars and an imaginary assassin, playing a role here that is barely more human, and in a way, she makes Sarah worthy of support, which is an achievement." At the 3rd Critics' Choice Super Awards, she was nominated for Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Film.
In the same year, she also starred in "Thor 4: Love and Thunder" and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3".
In 2023, she starred in "Late Bloomer," with Hollywood's Deadline's Damon Wise praising her for her "engaging, refreshing, and non-vain performance." Also in 2023, she began filming "Sleeping Hound" with Russell Crowe in Australia. and the upcoming ITVX comedy series Douglas Cancelled. She will also play Queen Mary Tudor in the upcoming film The Fool.
Let's take a look at the works of this sexy goddess with legs of one meter three dedicated to the art of film.
1. "Sleeping Hound" dedication index: ⭐⭐⭐
Roy is a retired police detective with Alzheimer's disease, with severe memory loss, who has just undergone surgery and is invited by a charity to investigate a murder case that he and his partner handled ten years ago, and the black criminal is about to be executed, but he claims to be wronged. During the investigation, Roy killed the former handyman (also a psychopath) of the doctor who wanted to hit him with his car, and his partner and the doctor's female assistant also shot each other to death at the scene of the previous murder. Roy later recalled and found that the murderer was himself, ten years ago, the amorous psychiatrist fell in love with his wife, and under the instigation of the doctor's female assistant, Roy killed the doctor, and his partner helped him deal with the murder scene and framed the black man in prison. Although the film is not a bad movie, the quality is average, and the only outstanding thing is a passion scene in Gillan.
2. "Bubble Crew" dedication index: ⭐⭐⭐
I feel that this film is filmed in the hearts of the actors, a bit of Netflix's self-deprecation, telling the story of the capital forcing the actors to complete the filming on schedule during the * love period in order to make a movie. In fact, it's quite fun, all kinds of accurate spit + cold jokes of human nature, but the process is a little boring, and it will be much better if it is streamlined to about 1 hour and 20 minutes. In addition, various celebrity cameos are also a small surprise.