Pollyanna McIntosh

Pollyanna McIntosh

Born: March 15, 1979
in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Pollyanna McIntosh grew up in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her birthplace of Scotland, where she first began performing, on stage, at The Edinburgh Festival. At 16, she left for London and soon became involved in indie filmmaking (her first paid gig was as a stoner in Irvine Welsh's The Acid House (1998)) and theatre, both as an actress and director. A move to Los Angeles in 2004 brought on more theatre, including a production of "The Woolgatherer", in which she directed Anne Dudek (a regular on Mad Men (2007)/Big Love (2006)) and David Dayan Fisher (a regular on 24 (2001)/NCIS (2003)) to great reviews. She then landed her first US movie role as the manipulative, born-again Christian, "Stacy", in Headspace (2005). It was as the wild "Thumper Wint" in the comedy, Sex and Death 101 (2007) (Simon Baker/Winona Ryder), by Heathers (1988) writer Daniel Waters, that the critics began to take note of her talent, citing a unique blend of powerful sexuality and irreverent humor. Working in both LA and London, Exam (2009) was next, BAFTA-nominated as Outstanding British Debut and winner of Best Independent at the Santa Barbara Film Fest, the film's critics noted Pollyanna's performance was "smart, sassy and sexy in equal parts....the emotional center of the film" praised her capacity to find the "emotional vulnerability" of her seemingly tough and ambitious character. GQ simply stated "stunning Pollyanna McIntosh is an enormously talented actress". Como Quien No Quiere La Cosa (2013) (As if you Don't Like it!), is a hilarious South American farce in which she plays Brit comedian Trevor Lock's disgruntled wife. Shot in Peru, she speaks Spanish throughout. In Burke and Hare (2010), directed by John Landis, she plays Isla Fisher's bestie with Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Jessica Hynes, Tom Wilkinson and Tim Curry. Her demanding turn as the lead in Lucky McKee's The Woman (2011) made shock waves at Sundance 2011, brought rave reviews and topped the New York Times readers' favorite movies poll. For her performance, she was awarded three Best Actress awards, including Total Film's Frightfest Award and Fright Meter's. As the female lead in the BBC political comedy, Bob Servant Independent (2013), starring Brian Cox, she played the professionally critical "Philippa Edwards", a very different sort of scary. In festival darling, Love Eternal (2013), she plays the female lead as a suicidal grieving mother. In the raucous Filth (2013), she played opposite James McAvoy and Jamie Bell, in the adaptation of Irvine Welsh's balls-out novel as the lusty Size Queen. Two successful British thrillers that see Pollyanna go from vulnerable to kick ass are White Settlers (2014), (known in the USA as The Bloodlands) and Let Us Prey also starring Game of Thrones' Liam Cunningham. In Sundance TV's Hap and Leonard also starring James Purefoy, Michael Kenneth Williams and Christina Hendricks, Pollyanna is nothing but kick ass as the neon-clad psycho killer, Angel. In US indy comedies Prevertere and The Famous Joe Project Pollyanna played it characteristically unsafe once again. Possibly her strangest role yet has been as Bobby in Ding Dong, teaming up once again with Lucky McKee for the 2014 anthology film Tales of Halloween. Pollyanna will next be seen in Blood on Wheels as the vicious biker gang leader Trigga. The film is produced by James Franco.

Movies for Pollyanna McIntosh...

The IFTA Awards 2024
Title: The IFTA Awards 2024
Released: April 22, 2024
Type: Movie
Highlights of the 21st IFTA Awards Ceremony from the Dublin Royal Convention Centre. Hosted by Baz Ashmawy.
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Title: The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
Character: Jadis Stokes
Released: February 25, 2024
Type: TV
The love story of Rick Grimes and Michonne is changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. Can they find each other and who they were in a situation unlike any they've ever known?
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The Walking Dead: The Return
Title: The Walking Dead: The Return
Character: Jadis Stokes / Anne (archive footage)
Released: February 15, 2024
Type: Movie
Stars of "The Walking Dead," Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, walk down memory lane and visit iconic locations where pivotal moments between their characters, Rick and Michonne, were filmed.
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Double Blind
Title: Double Blind
Character: Dr. Burke
Released: February 9, 2024
Type: Movie
After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
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Title: Scavengers Reign
Character: Kris (voice)
Released: October 19, 2023
Type: TV
When a deep space freighter is damaged by a solar flare its surviving crew are stranded on a beautiful and unforgiving planet. They begin to learn the true nature of this planet as they try to survive long enough to escape or be rescued.
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Apocalypse Clown
Title: Apocalypse Clown
Character: Siobhán
Released: July 14, 2023
Type: Movie
When a mysterious technological blackout plunges Ireland into anarchy and chaos, a group of failed, washed-up clowns are forced to traverse the country for one last shot at their dreams.
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Title: Vikings: Valhalla
Character: Queen Ælfgifu
Released: February 25, 2022
Type: TV
In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make history.
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Title: The Walking Dead: World Beyond
Character: Jadis Stokes
Released: October 4, 2020
Type: TV
A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world receive a message that inspires them to leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to find the one man who can possibly save the world.
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Revenge Ride
Title: Revenge Ride
Character: Trigga
Released: June 5, 2020
Type: Movie
Maggie becomes a strong and ruthless member of the all-female Dark Moon gang led by the merciless Trigga, and the all-female motorcycle gang look after each other as they patrol the streets in the small town.
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Deathcember
Title: Deathcember
Character: Radio Host (voice)
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Advent – a time of joyful anticipation. You will surely remember the feeling you had as a child, waking up on the first December morning. Rising early, ready to open a new door for 24 consecutive days.
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Darlin'
Title: Darlin'
Character: The Woman
Released: September 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Found at a Catholic hospital filthy and ferocious, feral teenager Darlin’ is whisked off to a care home run by The Bishop and his obedient nuns, where she’s to be rehabilitated into a "good girl" as an example of the miraculous work of the church. But Darlin’ holds a secret darker than the "sins" she is threatened with, and she is not traveling alone. The Woman who raised her, equally fierce and feral, is ever present in the shadows of Darlin’s psyche and is determined to come for her no matter who tries to get in her way.
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Title: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Character: Metatron
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: TV
As her 16th birthday nears, Sabrina must choose between the witch world of her family and the human world of her friends. Based on the Archie comic.
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Title: Lodge 49
Released: August 6, 2018
Type: TV
Dud is a deadbeat but charming ex-surfer who joins a fraternal order hoping to reclaim the simple, happy lifestyle he lost when his father died. Through the Lodge and his newfound connection with the other members, Dud will come to find the missing sense of purpose in his life and confront his deepest fears and greatest hopes.
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Native
Title: Native
Released: February 23, 2018
Type: Movie
Two scientists are selected to travel across the universe to the source of a distant transmission and potential life.
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Title: Hap and Leonard
Character: Angel
Released: March 2, 2016
Type: TV
A darkly comic swamp noir story of two best friends set in the late 1980s. Based on the novels by Joe R. Lansdale, the series follows Hap Collins, an East Texas white boy with a weakness for Southern women, and Leonard Pine, a gay, black Vietnam vet with a hot temper.
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Tales of Halloween
Title: Tales of Halloween
Character: Bobbie
Released: October 16, 2015
Type: Movie
Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.
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White Settlers
Title: White Settlers
Character: Sarah
Released: September 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Young urban couple Ed and Sarah are set to begin a new life when they move from London into an isolated borders Scottish farmhouse. After falling in love with the 19th century Castle Farm and seeing its potential as a fixer-upper they are anxious to get started on the renovations. In bed on their first night Sarah thinks she can hear noises in the darkness but Ed is disbelieving saying it’s her imagination playing tricks. Persisting in her fear they are not alone in the house, she forces Ed to investigate. When he doesn’t return after a scarily long period, she goes downstairs to investigate only to be confronted by a welcoming committee of masked intruders. As she desperately searches for Ed, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues with the mysterious assailants. But what do they want and what horrors do they have planned for the two newcomers?
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The Herd
Title: The Herd
Character: Female Captor
Released: August 11, 2014
Type: Movie
A number of kidnapped and trafficked women find themselves imprisoned in a squalid medical facility. For Paula her continued survival relies on her basic human function. Escape, on any level, is seemingly impossible as the women are condemned to a life of enforced servitude at the whims of their captors; for one reason only – their milk.
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Let Us Prey
Title: Let Us Prey
Character: PC. Rachel Heggie
Released: April 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the bitter-and-twisted who all think that, really, they deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they're there by accident and that, with a little luck, life is going to get better. Wrong, on both counts. Six is about to arrive - and All Hell Will Break Loose!
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Filth
Title: Filth
Character: Size Queen
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: Movie
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
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Prevertere
Title: Prevertere
Character: Irene
Released: July 14, 2013
Type: Movie
Templeton has relationships with three different women while searching for love.
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Love Eternal
Title: Love Eternal
Character: Naomi Clarke
Released: July 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Based on the Japanese novel 'Loving the Dead' from acclaimed author Kei Oishi, the film centres on a damaged young man who, after shutting himself away for ten years, is forced to venture out into a world that he no longer understands.
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I Do
Title: I Do
Character: Catherine
Released: May 31, 2013
Type: Movie
A gay Brit living in New York is deprived of his immigration status, and risks losing his family and life in the U.S. He marries his lesbian best friend to remain in the country and stay with his family, but things get complicated when he meets the love of his life and is forced to make an impossible choice.
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Noise Matters
Title: Noise Matters
Character: Rose
Released: March 15, 2013
Type: Movie
A satire on the relationship between fame and integrity in the life of eccentric characters exploring the "art" of making noise using trash and everyday objects.
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Blue Dream
Title: Blue Dream
Character: Amanda
Released: February 16, 2013
Type: Movie
A news writer finds himself caught up in a world of sex, drugs and corporate takeovers as he tries to solve a series of murders.
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Title: Bob Servant
Character: Philippa Edwards
Released: January 23, 2013
Type: TV
The Scottish town of Broughty Ferry doesn’t know what’s hit it. The sudden death of the sitting MP has resulted in a by-election that could change the political map of the UK. Bob Servant has been waiting his whole life for this level of attention and he’s willing to do anything to keep it.
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La Cosa
Title: La Cosa
Character: Mrs. Terrier
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman who lives in a lighthouse takes action against her childhood sweetheart who runs a beach hotel.
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Him Indoors
Title: Him Indoors
Character: Lizzie
Released: May 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Gregory Brewster is a serial killer, only problem is, he's agoraphobic! Facing an impending eviction from his family home, Gregory has a plan that will save him from being subjected to the one thing he's terrified of... the outside world. Things don't quite go to plan however, when a surprise visit from his new neighbor finds him in a very awkward situation.
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The Making of The Woman
Title: The Making of The Woman
Character: herself
Released: January 24, 2012
Type: Movie
The Making of The Woman
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The Famous Joe Project
Title: The Famous Joe Project
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Joe, in the midst of dropping out of college and coming out as gay, decides to record the everyday activities of his life on a handheld mini-video and post the clips to the internet. Soon after he begins this experiment, Joe meets Jesus, a narcissistic hustler drawn to the idea of constantly being on camera.
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Title: Talking Dead
Released: October 16, 2011
Type: TV
Host Chris Hardwick discusses episodes of the AMC television series The Walking Dead with guests, including celebrity fans, cast members, and crew from the series.
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The Woman
Title: The Woman
Character: The Woman
Released: October 14, 2011
Type: Movie
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
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Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Jadis
Released: October 31, 2010
Type: TV
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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Burke & Hare
Title: Burke & Hare
Character: Mary
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
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Progeny The Birth of Offspring
Title: Progeny The Birth of Offspring
Character: herself
Released: October 6, 2009
Type: Movie
The making of Offspring
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Exam
Title: Exam
Character: Brunette
Released: June 19, 2009
Type: Movie
The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
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Land of the Lost
Title: Land of the Lost
Character: Pakuni Woman
Released: June 5, 2009
Type: Movie
On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures.
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Offspring
Title: Offspring
Character: The Woman
Released: February 5, 2009
Type: Movie
The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he had killed them off ten years ago -- a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of cannibalistic savages. But somehow the clan survived. To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. And now the peaceful residents of this isolated town are fighting for their lives...
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Bats: Human Harvest
Title: Bats: Human Harvest
Character: Katya
Released: November 10, 2007
Type: Movie
A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent, are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh. As they search for Walsh's camp, they are attacked by genetically-altered carnivorous bats. The survivors attempt to reach helicopter extraction but encounter various challenges, including Chechen rebels.
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Sex and Death 101
Title: Sex and Death 101
Character: Thumper (#64)
Released: June 15, 2007
Type: Movie
A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale (Ryder) who targets men guilty of sex crime.
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Title: M.I. High
Character: Crime Minster
Released: January 8, 2007
Type: TV
M.I. High is a BBC children's spy-fi adventure series. It was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Kudos, who also produced the hit BBC spy drama Spooks. It follows in the success of the Young Bond and the Alex Rider series of books and films. M.I. High is recorded in high definition and is shown on the CBBC Channel and CBBC Outputs on BBC One and BBC Two. M.I. High is also shown on the BBC HD Channel. Repeats also frequently air in Australia on ABC3. As of October 2012 the series has began airing on the UKTV channel Watch.
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Headspace
Title: Headspace
Character: Stacy
Released: September 18, 2005
Type: Movie
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so too does the mystery of a brutal series of murders. Now, as the killer seems to set his sights on Alex, the frightened genius must use his newfound brain power to put an end to the mayhem once and for all.
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Dad on the Wall
Title: Dad on the Wall
Character: Herself
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A 75-minute fly-on-the-wall behind-the-scenes documentary about 'The Woman' filmed by the director's father Mike McKee