Miss Austen's breakout star: meet Synnøve Karlsen Synnøve Karlsen is one of London’s hottest talents, a former Screen International Star of Tomorrow who has been in two Netflix series, Bodies and Medici; yet her “shouting at a TV star in the street” experiences still revolve around her role in 2017 BBC psychological thriller Clique, which she bagged at 19.
“It’s nice that people have a memory of the show.” In Clique, Karlsen played a student — Holly — who found herself drawn into the shadowy world of university secret societies.
She starred in Edgar Wright’s film Last Night in Soho and following Miss Austen there’s an under-wraps Apple TV+ show she’s just finished filming in Prague.
She’s sharing the lead in new BBC1 series Miss Austen, about Cassandra, the older sister of novelist Jane.
Born in Glasgow to an American mother and half-Norwegian father, the family moved to London when Karlsen was 12.
