Indica Watson

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Indica Watson
Watson attending the London Premiere of Radioactive, March 2020
Born
Indica Elizabeth Watson

(2010-01-20) 20 January 2010 (age 14)
London, England
OccupationActress
Years active2015–present

Indica Elizabeth Watson (born 20 January 2010) is an English actress. She is best known for her work in television series The Missing, Sherlock, The Midwich Cuckoos and Who Is Erin Carter? and feature films Radioactive, A Boy Called Christmas and The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.

Career[edit]

Watson's first acting appearance was in a short film in London when she was five years old. Featuring Irish actress Fiona O'Shaughnessy, the six-minute film Who Are You? was commissioned by Somerset House.[1]
From this she was auditioned for the second series of television drama The Missing and was cast in the role of Lucy. The series was first screened in the UK in October 2016 and was a major critical success.[2]

Her next role was in the popular crime drama Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. She portrayed the young Eurus Holmes (as "Little Eurus"), Sherlock's younger sister, winning praise for her performance from the Daily Express.[3]

She spent three months filming the espionage thriller Deep State in Morocco and Southern England. Starring British actor Mark Strong and directed by Robert Connolly and writer/showrunner Matthew Parkhill, the eight-part series was released in April 2018.[4]

Watson's first performance in a leading role was in the BFI-funded psychological horror short film Martyrs Lane, written and directed by Ruth Platt. This was quickly followed by her second leading role in the short independent film Nurtured.
In April 2019 it was announced that Watson had been cast alongside Jim Broadbent, Sally Hawkins, Kristen Wiig, Toby Jones and Maggie Smith in A Boy Called Christmas, a feature film adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Matt Haig about the origins of Father Christmas.[5]

Filming began in August 2019 for The Electrical Life of Louis Wain in which Watson plays Young Felicie Wain. This was the second time she had played a younger sister to Benedict Cumberbatch's title role.[6]

In October 2019 she performed on stage with legendary punk group The Damned at the London Palladium for A Night of a Thousand Vampires.[7] The concert was released as a film in October 2022. In November 2019 she appeared as Charlotte Day in BBC drama miniseries Gold Digger with Julia Ormond and Ben Barnes.
Watson was cast in Marjane Satrapi's film Radioactive as a young Irene Curie alongside Rosamund Pike, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sam Riley which was originally due out in cinemas during Spring 2020. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic its release was delayed until the summer when it was released on Amazon Prime Video.[8] Watson received particular praise for her role from the London Evening Standard.[9]
In 2020 Watson narrated the audiobook Moojag and the Auticode Secret by N.E. McMorran.[10]

In November 2021 Watson attended the UK premiere of A Boy Called Christmas at London's Natural History Museum wearing the prosthetic ears of her elf character Little Noosh.[11]

Adapted for television by David Farr from John Wyndham's 1957 novel of the same name,The Midwich Cuckoos was released in June 2022. Watson played the character of Evie Stone alongside Keeley Hawes, Max Beesley and Synnøve Karlsen in this sinister sci-fi drama series.[12]

Watson spent six months living in Barcelona during 2022 while filming the Netflix series Who Is Erin Carter? with Evin Ahmad and Sean Teale.[13] She played Erin Carter’s troubled daughter, Harper. Her performance drew high praise from The Guardian who described Watson as "a preternaturally gifted actor".[14][15] The series premiered on Netflix on 24 August 2023, going on to be the most watched Netflix show in the world the following week.[16]

Television[edit]

Year Title Role Director Notes
2016 The Missing Lucy Ben Chanan Series 2, 4 episodes
2017 Sherlock Little Eurus Holmes Benjamin Caron Series 4, episode 3: The Final Problem
2018 Waffle the Wonder Dog Poppy Essam Jack Jameson Series 1, episode 9: Waffle and the Good Dog
2018 True Horror Meemi-Rose Rob Savage Series episode 2: Ghost in the Wall
2018 Deep State Lola Easton Robert Connolly

Matthew Parkhill

Series 1, 8 episodes
2019 Grantchester Jessica Rob Evans Series 4, episode 5
2019 Gold Digger Charlotte Day Vanessa Caswill

David Evans

5 episodes
2022 The Midwich Cuckoos Evie Stone Börkur Sigthorsson episodes 6 & 7
2023 Who Is Erin Carter? Harper Carter Bill Eagles

Ashley Way
Savina Dellicour

6 episodes

Filmography[edit]

Year Title Role Director Notes
2019 Martyrs Lane Leah Ruth Platt Short film

Lead role

2019 Nurtured Alex Ben Pearce Short film

Lead role

2020 Radioactive Young Irene Curie Marjane Satrapi Feature film
2021 A Boy Called Christmas Little Noosh Gil Kenan Feature film
2021 The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Young Felicie Wain Will Sharpe Feature film
2022 The Laureate Catherine Nicholson William Nunez Feature film
2022 The Damned: A Night of a Thousand Vampires Claudia Martin Gooch Live concert film

Audiobooks[edit]

Year Title Role Author
2020 Moojag and the Auticode Secret Nema/Narrator N.E. McMorran

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Somerset House - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  2. ^ "The Missing - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  3. ^ Daily Express http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/754593/Sherlock-The-Final-Problem-review-Moriarty-Andrew-Scott-Benedict-Cumberbatch retrieved 3 April 2018
  4. ^ Deep State (TV series)
  5. ^ Clarke, Stewart (15 April 2019). "Netflix Boards 'A Boy Called Christmas' With Jim Broadbent, Kristen Wiig in Ensemble Cast". Variety. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  6. ^ Louis Wain
  7. ^ Classic Rock January 2020 edition
  8. ^ Prime Video https://www.amazon.co.uk/Radioactive-Rosamund-Pike/dp/B085YFC3H5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=radioactive+film&qid=1638285639&sr=8-1/ retrieved 30 November 2021
  9. ^ O'Sullivan, Charlotte (19 June 2020). "Radioactive: Rosamund Pike is in her element in whizz-bang biopic". Evening Standard. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  10. ^ Audible https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Moojag-and-the-Auticode-Secret-Audiobook/B08S3WJV1R?ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_230935_rh_uk/ retrieved 22 March 2022
  11. ^ "Indica Watson attends the UK Premiere of "A Boy called Christmas" at..." Getty Images. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  12. ^ Twitter https://twitter.com/SiblingSecret/status/1529853362786734081/ retrieved 31 May 2022
  13. ^ Twitter https://twitter.com/SiblingSecret/status/1567811364797747201 Retrieved 14 August 2023
  14. ^ Mangan, Lucy (24 August 2023). "Who Is Erin Carter? review – the real question is: who cares?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  15. ^ Parkinson, Hannah Jane (27 August 2023). "The week in TV: Fisk; The Price of Truth; And Just Like That; Who Is Erin Carter". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  16. ^ Netflix Global Top 10 https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10/tv Retrieved 1 September 2023

External links[edit]

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