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Victoria Emslie is a British stage, television and film Actress, best known for her roles in Downton Abbey, The Theory of Everything, The Frankenstein Chronicles and the TV adaption of 12 Monkeys (TV series). She is an active member of Time's Up UK and core committee member of ERA 5050 and Founder & CEO of Primetime.

Biography
Following school, Emslie graduated from University of St. Andrews with an MA in French and Arabic, before securing a place at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for an MA in Acting for Screen.

Upon graduating from Central, Emslie went on to be cast in a role in John Stephenson's The Christmas Candle. Her next project saw her playing opposite Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne in James Marsh's Oscar-winning biopic The Theory of Everything about the life of Stephen Hawking. She then appeared as Audrey, Lady Edith's "suffragette-y" Secretary at The Sketch, in series 6 of ITV's hit drama Downton Abbey and in the same year worked alongside Eddie Redmayne once again in The Danish Girl directed by Tom Hooper, putting her French degree to good use. On the set of The Danish Girl, she met Trans spokesperson, Actor and Director Jake Graf who she went on to work with in his multi award-winning LGBT short film, Dusk. In 2017 she played the reoccuring role of an Automaton, a mechnical creation, in the ITV drama The Frankenstein Chronicles. She has recently worked on a TV adaption of 12 Monkeys on Syfy playing a member of the French Resistance.

In 2016 she was cast in the UK No.1 Tour of Lotty's War written by Guiliano Crispini in the titular role of Lotty. Never leaving the stage for more than a few moments, Emslie enthuses that it was great to see the writer give so much stage time to a strong female character.

At Cannes Film Festival, Emslie launched Primetime, a centralised global database of all the women working above and below the line behind the camera to help address the gender imbalance within the Entertainment Industry. “Currently men outnumber women anywhere from 2:1 to 3:1 onscreen. Women tend to hire more women which leads to more female-led content being made; so to change the conversation onscreen we need to change the conversation behind the screen,” Emslie explained of the database’s launch at Cannes. “We hear the same excuses arising time and time again, my favourite of all being ‘Where are all the women?’” Her response was to launch Primetime, a global database for women behind the camera. “As someone who has always jumped at problem solving, I wanted to take at least this one excuse off the table,” she says. The platform has already earned the support of Time’s Up UK, ERA 5050, and The Geena Davis Institute. UK agencies 42 Management and Casarotto Ramsay & Associates are urging their clients to sign up. Acknowledging the issue of sexual harassment in the industry, Primetime is partnering with Spot, an organisation that facilitates anonymous reporting.