Cailee Spaeny Age & Biography

Cailee Spaeny is 28 years old. Born on July 24, 1998, in Knoxville, Tennessee, she is an American actress best known for playing Priscilla Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, a performance that won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination, and for leading the science-fiction horror film Alien: Romulus. She began acting as a child in Missouri community theatre and made her film debut in Pacific Rim Uprising in 2018. No reliable published estimate of her net worth exists.

Cailee Spaeny Quick Facts

Full Name	Cailee Spaeny
Date of Birth	July 24, 1998
Age	28 years old
Birthplace	Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Occupation	Actress
Known For	Priscilla Presley in Priscilla; Rain Carradine in Alien: Romulus; Jessie Cullen in Civil War

Who Is Cailee Spaeny?

Cailee Spaeny is an American actress who went from community theatre in Springfield, Missouri, to leading roles in major films within a decade. The seventh of nine children, she began performing with the Springfield Little Theatre group as a child and dropped out of school at thirteen to pursue acting full time. Her film debut came in 2018 in Pacific Rim Uprising, and she quickly stacked up roles in Bad Times at the El Royale, On the Basis of Sex and Vice, all in the same year.

Spaeny’s breakthrough arrived in 2023, when she played Priscilla Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and earning a Golden Globe nomination. She followed it with two major releases in 2024: Alex Garland’s Civil War, in which she played the young war photographer Jessie Cullen, and Alien: Romulus, in which she led the cast as Rain Carradine. She also starred in Wake Up Dead Man in 2025 and in the second season of the Netflix series Beef in 2026, a role she also executive produced.

Cailee Spaeny’s Early Life & Background

Cailee Spaeny was born on July 24, 1998, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the seventh of nine children of Mark and Reja Spaeny. She was raised in Springfield, Missouri, in a Southern Baptist family, and she began performing with the Springfield Little Theatre group as a child, taking acting, voice and dance classes six days a week. In the 2014–2015 season, she played Dorothy in a stage production of The Wizard of Oz with the group. She dropped out of school at thirteen to pursue acting, and she briefly worked at the Silver Dollar City theme park in Missouri before moving to Los Angeles.

Spaeny’s film debut came in March 2018, when she played Amara Namani in Pacific Rim Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, opposite John Boyega. Later that year, she appeared as Rose Summerspring in Bad Times at the El Royale, playing the younger sister of Dakota Johnson‘s character Emily, and she also appeared in On the Basis of Sex, playing Jane Ginsburg, and in Vice, playing the young Lynne Cheney.

Cailee Spaeny’s Career

Spaeny’s television debut came in 2020, when she played Lyndon in the FX on Hulu miniseries Devs, created by Alex Garland. The same year, she took her first leading film role as Lily Schechner in The Craft: Legacy, the sequel to the 1996 cult film The Craft. She appeared in the apocalyptic drama How It Ends in 2021, and played Erin McMenamin in the HBO limited series Mare of Easttown the same year, opposite Kate Winslet. In 2022, she played Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Halsted in the Showtime series The First Lady.

The defining role of Spaeny’s career so far came in 2023, when she played Priscilla Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir Elvis and Me. Her performance won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 2024, she reunited with Alex Garland for Civil War, playing Jessie Cullen, a young war photographer traveling with Kirsten Dunst’s character across a fractured America, and she led the cast of Alien: Romulus as Rain Carradine, a young woman trying to escape her mining colony, in a film that became a box-office hit.

Spaeny continued her rise in 2025, playing Simone Vivane in Wake Up Dead Man, the third film in the Knives Out series, opposite Daniel Craig. In 2026, she starred in the second season of Netflix’s Beef as Ashley Miller, a role she also executive produced, earning an Emmy nomination as a producer. Her upcoming projects include the live-action film Elden Ring, due in March 2028, and Deep Cuts in 2027, in which she plays Eileen Percy Marks opposite Drew Starkey.

Facts About Cailee Spaeny

• She is the seventh of nine children.
• She dropped out of school at thirteen to pursue acting full time.
• She played Dorothy in a stage production of The Wizard of Oz with the Springfield Little Theatre group.
• She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Priscilla in 2023.
• She briefly worked at the Silver Dollar City theme park in Missouri before moving to Los Angeles.

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Cailee Spaeny?

Cailee Spaeny is 28 years old. She was born on July 24, 1998, in Knoxville, Tennessee.

What is Cailee Spaeny best known for?

Cailee Spaeny is best known for playing Priscilla Presley in Priscilla (2023) and Rain Carradine in Alien: Romulus (2024).

What is Cailee Spaeny’s net worth?

No reliable published estimate of Cailee Spaeny’s net worth exists. Celebrity Net Worth does not have a page for her, and no other reliable source has published an estimate.

What was Cailee Spaeny’s first film?

Cailee Spaeny’s first film was Pacific Rim Uprising (2018), in which she played Amara Namani.

Where is Cailee Spaeny from?

Cailee Spaeny was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Springfield, Missouri.

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