Millie Brady Biography: Age, career, nude, Aethelflaed The Last Kingdom and more

Millie Brady is a British actress who is best known for her role as Lady Aethelflaed in the historical fiction television series The Last Kingdom from 2017 to date. However, her acting career began much earlier than that.

Before Brady got the role of the popular Aethelflaed The Last Kingdom character, she had already found her place as a popular actress. In this article about Brady, we reveal all the facts about her and answer many key questions as well. To get started, first see these top 10 facts about Millie Brady below.

Top 10 facts about Millie Brady

1. She was born on 24 December 1993 and will turn 28 years old on her 2021 birthday. Her real name is Camilla Eve Brady and ‘Millie’ is actually a nickname, probably gotten from her first name.
2. She began modelling and acting at the age of 15 during summer holidays from school. At the time, Millie had sent letters and DVDs of herself to several agents in the industry.
3. Millie Brady landed her first major acting role in 2014 at the age of 21 playing the recurring character of Violette Selfridge in Mr Selfridge Season 2.
4. Working for Italian high fashion women’s clothing and accessory brand Miu Miu in 2016 was Millie’s biggest gig as a model. Steven Meisel for the SS16 Campaign photographed her.
5. After her big break on Mr Selfridge, she starred in Legend as Joan Collins in 2015 and played Mary Bennet in the action-comedy horror film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in 2016.
6. She played the role of Aethelflaed, a significant character from 2017 to present on the TV series titled The Last Kingdom, based on Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories series of novels.
7. In 2018, she played Princess Catia (daughter of Vortigern) in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Vera in 2019 German-Swedish-American mystery crime drama Intrigo: Samaria, and Cleo in Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit as well as several other roles.
8. Originally, Brady was pencilled to play Renfri on The Witcher TV series and had allegedly shot all her scenes before the decision to reshoot and recast the series. The role eventually went to another English actress Emma Appleton.
9. In 2013, the actress was said to have been involved with former One Direction singer Harry Styles but the relationship didn’t seem to have gotten off the ground.
10. Brady uses the handle @Camilia_brady on both Twitter and Instagram.

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Early life and family

Millie Brady was born Camilla Eve Brady on 24 December 1993 to English parents in London, England, United Kingdom. No doubt, you will have surmised that ‘Millie’ is actually her nickname coined from her birth name ‘Camilla’. It has since become the name that many people know her by.

Brady grew up in London with her parents and her older sister. Her family moved around England a lot, rarely settling in one place for long. There is no information on the names of her parents or her sister but we found that she and Millie still live together in Hampstead, North London.

The actress is an alumnus of St Mary’s School Ascot, a Roman Catholic independent day and boarding school for girls in Ascot, Berkshire, England. While still in school, she started a career as a model.

Career

Modelling

Millie Brady is said to have begun modelling during her teenage years at 15. She seemed to have been involved in several small gigs because she was relatively unknown until her major big break came. Before that, Brady was already sending several letters to agents for jobs.

Millie Brady passed the time working as a part-time model during summer holidays from school. Working for Italian high fashion women’s clothing and accessory brand Miu Miu in 2016 was the biggest gig she landed as a model. She was already a popular actress at the time and had starred in a TV series and one film with another on the way.

Yet, it was a dream come true for the actress. Steven Meisel photographed her for the Miu Miu SS16 Campaign. You can see one of the pictures above.

She no longer works actively as a model choosing to focus on her acting career. However, she hinted that she would always welcome another gig from Miu Miu if it comes up in the future.

Acting

It appears that modelling is not the only showbiz passion that Millie Brady picked up as a teenager. In an interview, the actress said that she was already acting before she turned 15. Besides, she was recording herself performing and then sending the DVDs to agents for acting jobs.

Eventually, it paid off. She landed her first major acting role in 2014 at the age of 21 playing Violette Selfridge in Mr Selfridge Season 2. Brady had a recurring role on the British period drama television series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his department store, Selfridge & Co, in London, set from 1908 to 1928.

Following her big break on Mr Selfridge, in 2015, she also starred in Legend as Joan Collins along with Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Tara Fitzgerald and Taron Egerton. The film is adapted from John Pearson’s book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins, which deals with their career and the relationship that bound them together. It follows their gruesome career to life imprisonment in 1969.

In 2016, Millie played Mary Bennet in the action-comedy horror film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The film parodies the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She starred alongside Lena Headey, Sam Riley, and several others.

The Last Kingdom Aethelflaed

Millie Brady played the role of Aethelflaed in the British historical fiction television series, The Last Kingdom. The series is based on Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories series of novels. It began airing in the UK in 2015 before Netflix started airing it in 2018.

Aethelflaed is a significant character on The Last Kingdom TV series and she is credited as part of the series main cast. Here is a bit more about Aethelflaed.

Aethelflaed (history)

Stylised as Æthelflæd, Aethelflaed is also popularly called Lady of the Mercians. She had ruled Mercia in the English Midlands from 911 until her death. Princess Aethelflaed is the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.

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According to her Wikipedia page, she was born during the period when the Vikings were invading England. When she was a child, the Danish Vikings ruled most of England but her father, Alfred, won a decisive battle, the Battle of Edington, which led to English kingdoms gaining some control of the western half of Mercia.

Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, accepted Alfred’s overlordship and the former adopted the title King of the English, claiming to rule all English people not living in areas under Viking control. In the mid-880s, Alfred sealed the strategic alliance between the surviving English kingdoms by marrying Æthelflæd to Æthelred.

Aethelflaed in The Last Kingdom

Millie Brady started appearing in The Last Kingdom series as Aethelflaed in Season 2. The Danes kidnapped the character when they raided the camp she was in while her husband, Aethelred, and his army went on a futile attack.

She becomes attached to one of her captors Erik and it further leads the plot of the series. Aethelflaed was the major character following her appearance on the show and she also appeared in subsequent seasons three and four.

The Last Kingdom has been compared to Game of Thrones by many but critics agree that it lacks the depth that the legendary series had. However, The Last Kingdom is not Millie Brady’s only epic character role.

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

In 2017, she also played Princess Catia (daughter of Vortigern) in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.

The film, as the name suggests, is inspired by popular Arthurian legends. Millie starred alongside Jude Law, Charlie Hunnam, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Djimon Hounsou, Aidan Gillen and Eric Bana.

She also played Anastasia in the 2018 musical drama film Teen Spirit. The film also stars Elle Fanning, Rebecca Hall and Zlatko Buric. Millie Brady was Vera in Intrigo: Samaria, a 2019 German-Swedish-American mystery crime drama film. In 2020, she featured in White House Farm and Roadkill as well as Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit (as Cleo).

The Witcher TV series Renfri

Originally, Millie Brady was pencilled to play Renfri on The Witcher TV series and had allegedly shot all her scenes before the decision to reshoot and recast the series. The role eventually went to another English actress Emma Appleton.

According to the Redanian Intelligence blog, if Brady had played Renfri on The Witcher Netflix series, the character would have been blond, just as the books describe her. This is backed by picture proofs as well.

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Millie Brady’s original stuntwoman for the Renfri role, Dorottya Talpassy, published a picture of what the character looked like when she and the actress worked together on set. See the image below:

Millie Brady nude

There are several internet searches for Millie Brady nude images and this likely comes from the scenes in The Last Kingdom where she went topless.

Is Millie Brady related to Beth Brady?

Merry Beth Brady is an actress known for starring in the 1975 film I’ll Quit Tomorrow. Many mistake Beth Brady for Millie Brady’s mother. However, that is not the case. Beth Brady is not her mother and there is no mention of them being related in any way at all. Thus, it is likely just a coincidence that they share last names.

Physical features

According to her IMDb profile, Millie Brady’s height is about 5’ 7” (or 1.7 m). She has long dark brown hair and green eyes.

Personal life and relationships

One thing that Millie Brady values the most is family and this is one of the reasons she and her older sister share a flat in Hampstead, North London. She also revealed in one recent interview that what she looked forward to most of the time she gets home is talking with her sister.

In 2013, she was said to have been involved with former One Direction singer, Harry Styles. However, the Daily Mail claimed that the relationship did not last long. Shortly after the rumour of the actress and Harry Styles dating began, the singer allegedly failed to show up for a date.

Additionally, there were rumours that Millie was involved with Alexander Dreymon, who plays Uthred in The Last Kingdom. However, there is no proof of them dating and it seems their relationship was simply professional. The actor was also rumoured to be gay because he played a gay character on The Last Kingdom. He, however, dismissed these claims. He had been romantically linked to the Greek actress Tonia Sotiropoulou in the past.

Millie Brady is on Twitter as @Camilia_brady with 14.5k followers. Her Instagram handle is also @millie_brady and she has over 284k followers on the platform as of February 2021.

Additional Millie Brady information

List of TV and films

1. Mr Selfridge (2014)
2. Legend (2015)
3. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. The Last Kingdom (2017-present)
5. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
6. Teen Spirit (2018)
7. Intrigo: Samaria (2019)
8. White House Farm (2020)
9. Roadkill (2020)
10. The Queen’s Gambit (2020)