Emma Booth is an Australian model and actress hailing from Perth in Western Australia. She was frequently lauded in the Australian press as “the next big thing” during the first few years of her career when she was working as a teen model and taking on minor acting roles. Her breakthrough role came when she made a sensational turn (which caught the notice of American audiences) in the Australian romantic comedy Clubland (2007) which was known as Introducing the Dwights internationally. Clubland was nominated for eleven AACTA awards, with Booth winning the award for Best Supporting Actress. The movie went on to debut at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation and was regarded as the sleeper hit of the event.
In 2017 Booth joined ABC’s wildly popular fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time in a recurring role for season seven. In it she was given the responsibility of playing the powerful witch Mother Gothel, the main antagonist of the season. Booth’s movie credits include the horror movie Blood Creek (2009) directed by Joel Schumacher, the thriller Parker (2013) starring Jennifer Lopez and Jason Statham and the critically acclaimed crime movie Hounds of Love (2016) as a serial killer’s partner. Her small-screen roles include Australian dramas All Saints, Underbelly: The Golden Mile, Cloudstreet and a main role in Glitch from 2015 to 2019. Booth was also recently cast as the protagonist Molly McGee in the Australian web television crime series The Gloaming, which has been distributed internationally by ABC.
Having just landed two major roles on the ABC network, Booth is poised for ever higher stardom. She plans to go from strength to strength and continue to find exciting acting work at the focal points of both Australian and American popular culture.