Jessica Henwick

Jessica Yu Li Henwick (born 30 August 1992 in Surrey England) is an English actress. She was the first actress of East Asian descent to play the lead role in a British television series, having starred in the children's show Spirit Warriors (2009–10). She is also known for her roles as Nymeria Sand in HBO series Game of Thrones (2015–17), X-wing pilot Jessika Pava in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and the character Colleen Wing in Iron Fist (2017–2018), The Defenders (2017) and the second season of Luke Cage (2018).

I met Jessica at Sheffield Film & Comic Con in August 2015.

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