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Morfydd Clark (; born 17 March 1989) is a Welsh actress. She is best known for playing Galadriel in the Amazon Prime series (2022–present). She received a number of accolades for her performance in the film Saint Maud (2019), including a BAFTA Cymru as well as BIFA and BAFTA Rising Star Award nominations.
Clark's other films include a leading role in folk-horror film, Starve Acre (2023), and supporting credits in Love & Friendship (2016), Interlude in Prague (2017), The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) and Ophelia in Hamlet (2025). Also on television, she played Mina Harker in Dracula (2020), Sister Clara in His Dark Materials (2019) and Bridget Conway in Murder is Easy (2023).
Her first acting experience was playing Mrs Dai Bread in a school production of Under Milk Wood. After struggling with dyslexia and ADHD, she left school at sixteen. She later completed her A Levels in English and mathematics at Kings Monkton School in Cardiff. In 2009, she was accepted to British Youth Music Theatre's production of According to Brian Haw and to the National Youth Theatre of Wales, before training at the Drama Centre London.
In 2019, she appeared in the films Crawl, The Personal History of David Copperfield, and Eternal Beauty. Also that year, Clark starred as Maud in the psychological horror film Saint Maud, for which she was nominated for Best Actress of the 2020 British Independent Film Awards. For her performance as Maud, she won the BAFTA Cymru best actress award, and was nominated for the 2021 BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Clark has cited that she is "proud" that being a Welsh language speaker influenced her portrayal of her bilingual character, Galadriel. The actor stated, "I feel I can be much more romantic and deep in Welsh. So that was really useful for me, because I was thinking, 'What's language of her heart? What language does she think in?'" In another interview, the actor discussed her education in Welsh: "Well, I went to a Welsh language school and everything is taught in Welsh. Welsh is phonetic, so it's great for people with dyslexia. I started learning English in the third year. What my Tolkien-obsessed mother was really proud of and passed on to us was that Tolkien was inspired by the Welsh. Oddly enough, his work was a badge of honour for me, because the Welsh are Welsh and obsessed with anything Welsh." She also mentioned enjoying speaking in Welsh on-set with co-stars Owain Arthur and Trystan Gravelle.
| 2014 | Madame Bovary | Camille | |
| Pamela Charron | |||
| 2016 | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Georgiana Darcy | |
| Love & Friendship | Frederica Vernon | ||
| Shelly | |||
| 2017 | Interlude in Prague | Zuzanna Luptak | |
| Kate Dickens | |||
| 2019 | Crawl | Beth Keller | |
| Dora Spenlow and Clara Copperfield | |||
| Eternal Beauty | Young Jane | ||
| Saint Maud | Maud | ||
| 2023 | Starve Acre | Juliette | |
| 2025 | Hamlet | Ophelia | |
| Making Noise |
| 2014 | New Worlds | Amelia | Television miniseries |
| Nancy Wickwire | Television film | ||
| 2015 | Arthur & George | Mary | Episode: "1.1" |
| 2016 | National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Cécile Volanges | |
| 2018 | Caroline Bell | Episode: "Silver Smile" | |
| Yolanda Stark | Episodes: "Breach," "Ordinary" | ||
| Patrick Melrose | Debbie Hickman | Episodes: "Bad News," "Some Hope" | |
| Outsiders | Mari | Television film | |
| 2019 | His Dark Materials | Sister Clara | 4 episodes |
| 2020 | Dracula | Mina Harker | Television miniseries |
| 2022–present | Galadriel | Main role | |
| 2023 | Murder is Easy | Bridget | Two-part drama |
| + !Year !Play !Role !Theatre company !Director (Writer) !Notes | |||||
| 2013 | Blodeuwedd | Blodeuwedd | Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru | Arwel Griffiths (Saunders Lewis) | |
| 2015 | Violence and Son | Jen | The Royal Court | Hamish Pirie (Gary Owen) | |
| 2015 | Romeo and Juliet | Juliet | Crucible Theatre | Jonathan Humphreys (William Shakespeare) | |
| 2015 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Cecile | Donmar Warehouse | Josie Rourke (Christopher Hampton) | |
| 2016 | King Lear | Cordelia | The Old Vic | Deborah Warner (William Shakespeare) | |
| 2017 | The Cherry Orchard | Anya | Sherman Theatre | Rachel O'Riordan (Anton Chekhov/Gary Owen) | |
| 2019 | The Colours | Joe | Soho Theatre | Max Barton (Harriet Madeley) | |
| 2024 | Look Back In Anger | Helena Charles | Almeida Theatre | Atri Banerjee (John Osborne) | |
| 2024 | Roots | Beatie Bryant | Almeida Theatre | Diyan Zora (Arnold Wesker) |
| 2020 | Dublin Film Critics' Circle | Breakthrough Award | Saint Maud and The Personal History of David Copperfield | ||
| Sunset Film Circle Awards | Best Actress | Saint Maud | |||
| 2021 | London Critics' Circle Film Awards | British/Irish Actress of the Year | Saint Maud and Eternal Beauty | ||
| Actress of the Year | Saint Maud | ||||
| British Independent Film Awards | Best Actress | ||||
| BAFTA Cymru | BAFTA Cymru | ||||
| British Academy Film Awards | Rising Star Award | ||||
| 2022 | Fangoria Chainsaw Awards | Best Lead Performance | |||
| 2023 | Critics' Choice Super Awards | Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Series | |||
| Canneseries | Madame Figaro Rising Star Award |
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