Qualley will already be familiar to many for her work in TV series The Leftovers, in which she played Jill Garvey. She’s also appeared in Palo Alto, The Nice Guys and Death Note; and she’s filmed a role in the hugely anticipated Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. But do you know who her famous mother is?
The 24-year-old is the daughter of Hollywood icon Andie MacDowell.
MacDowell, 60, is a big-screen legend after her work in Sex, Lies and Videotape, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Groundhog Day and Green Card.
She’s also recently picked up huge acclaim for the TV series Love After Love, and has joined the cast of hit BBC sitcom Cuckoo.
She married former model Paul Qualley in 1986; and the pair had three kids: son Justin and dauhters Rainey and Sarah Margaret; the latter of whom is now the headline star of IO.
The couple split in 1999, five years after their youngest child’s birth.
Now Qualley, who has ditched Sarah from her professional moniker, is gathering steam on her own acting career.
Sadly her work in the post-apocalyptic IO has been criticised by some critics, although others have blamed the script rather than her performance.
The Hollywood Reporter wrote: “Qualley is a major weak link, seeming less like a forlorn last person on Earth than an inconvenienced high-schooler who left her iPhone in a locker room… in space!”
Meanwhile The Guardian said: “Qualley, as Sam, is wide-eyed and watchable; she doesn’t quite have the indefinable presence of, say, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games, but she gives depth to Sam’s determination, even as her logic can be unclear.”
And RogerEbert.com remarked: “Qualley and Mackie struggle to find chemistry as two slightly less lonely people in the world, conversing with monotone line-readings while guarding their private denials.”
IGN were more positive, saying that in an otherwise weak movie, “Margaret Qualley and Anthony Mackie provide competent performances.”
IO is streaming now on Netflix.