Actor Spotlight: Wallis Day

emilylrking
The C Word Mag
Published in
7 min readNov 25, 2020

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Let me introduce you to the actor, model, activist, female founder, rulebreaker and all around whirlwind that is Wallis Day.

Starting to model from the tender age of 13 definitely meant Wallis had to grow up quickly, deciding to give up school at 16 to move to London to pursue acting was another big step and moment of growth for her. Luckily for Wallis, her challenging decisions at such a young age have paid off. For example, you may have already seen her on your screen already — whether it’s from her early days of acting on Hollyoaks as Holly Cunningham in 2013, as the evil twin Olalla in the ten-part drama of Jekyll and Hyde starring alongside Richard E. Grant, or more recently in the widely successful superman prequel series called Krypton, as the machiavellian Nyssa Vex. She even has a part in the upcoming Infinite film (as the villain, of course!) on its way to our screens soon starring Mark Wahlberg. It really is from Hollyoaks to Hollywood.

For someone as young as Wallis (aged 25), she certainly knows what she wants. As well as acting and modelling, she is also the founder of her own vegan business, Vegan Punk (coming soon!) and publicly vocalises her opinions on social media to her 240k+ followers on subjects like human sex trafficking, the black lives matter movement and climate change. She is unafraid to subvert ideas, shatter preconceptions and basically be a…

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