Juno Temple — Acting | Biography, Movies & Career

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Juno Temple (born 21 July 1989) is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the comedy series Ted Lasso (2020–2023) and in the fifth season of the crime drama series Fargo (2023–2024). She earned Primetime Emmy Award nominations for both as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination for the latter. She also portrayed Teddy Payne in the superhero film Venom: The Last Dance (2024).

Temple, the daughter of film director Julien Temple, began working as a child actress, appearing in Notes on a Scandal (2006), Atonement (2007), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) and Mr. Nobody (2009). Her subsequent film roles were in The Three Musketeers (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Magic Magic (2013), Maleficent (2014), Black Mass (2015), Unsane (2018), and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019). Temple received the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2013. She has also starred in the television series Vinyl (2016), Dirty John (2018–2019) and The Offer (2022).

Juno Temple was born in the Hammersmith area of London on 21 July 1989, the daughter of film producer Amanda Pirie and film director Julien Temple. She has two younger brothers, Leo and Felix. Her aunt Nina Temple was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. She grew up in Taunton, Somerset, where she attended Enmore Primary School, then Bedales School, returning to Taunton to finish at King's College.

In 2012, she appeared in The Dark Knight Rises, as a "street-smart Gotham girl", and portrayed Diane in the lesbian werewolf tale Jack & Diane. In February 2013, Temple won the EE Rising Star BAFTA Award, voted for by the public. Temple had a supporting role as Deborah Hussey in the true-crime film Black Mass (2015), which starred Johnny Depp; and played Jamie Vine, an A&R assistant for the fictional American Century record company, in the 2016 HBO series Vinyl.

In 2018–2019, Temple played a focal role as the protagonist's daughter in the Bravo series Dirty John, which was later acquired by Netflix. In 2020, she won the Best Actress award at the Prague Independent Film Festival for her role in the film Lost Transmissions. In August 2020, Temple began a regular role as Keeley, a former girlfriend of one of the team players and the unofficial team publicist, on the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso.

In 2022, Temple appeared in the Paramount+ miniseries The Offer, depicting the production of The Godfather. In 2023, Temple appeared in a starring role in the fifth season of the American crime anthology series Fargo.