9) Agyness Deyn – Sunset Song
Critics can be snooty about folks famed for things other than the cinema using their celebrity to have a go at an acting career. There are, understandably, just so few good examples: great musicians or particularly striking models aren’t necessarily going to have much acting talent just because they’re used to performing on stage for their own respective professions.
At least we can say Agyness Deyn proved in 2016 she is one of the few to successfully make the transition from the catwalk to in front of the camera. In Terence Davies’ WWI-era drama Sunset Song, Deyn is often the sole source of warmth, a woman of nothing but good intentions callously isolated in a world of seemingly endless misery. The film’s a tough slog, but Deyn is, along with her equally impressive co-star Kevin Guthrie, undeniably heartbreaking.