Fairn made her debut television role as Casey in BBC One police drama The Responder starring Martin Freeman, and broadcast in January 2022. The series was well-received and a second series was commissioned with a start of filming date set for late 2023.
She appeared as Frida in an episode of the BBC One dark comedy series Rain Dogs starring Daisy May Cooper. She has a role in the episode Demon 79 from the sixth series of Black Mirror on Netflix.
On stage, Fairn appeared in 2023 in the West End alongside Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist in a production of Brokeback Mountain at the SoHo Place Theatre, featuring a musical performance by a band led by Eddi Reader. Fairn appears as Hedges' wife Alma and Nick Curtis in the Evening Standard said she showed "startling assurance" for her debut, and Fiona Mountford for The i said she deserved "plaudits".
She has filmed a BFI-backed feature film called Chuck Chuck Baby, described as a musical drama set in a chicken factory in industrial north Wales, written and directed by Janis Pugh. She also has a role in the Sky One political thriller COBRA, She is also in the Oliver Hermanus directed period drama series Mary & George, in which she plays the maid to an aristocrat played by Julianne Moore.
Fairn will portray comedienne Laraine Newman in the forthcoming biopic Saturday Night.
Emily Fairn has not appeared on Broadway.
Emily Fairn has appeared on London's West End in 1 shows.
Emily Fairn's first West End show was Brokeback Mountain which opened in 2023
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