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Prima Facie
Director: Susanna White, Cinematographer: Mike Eley BSC
UK and Ireland Release: 13 November 2026
Suzie Miller adapts her own Olivier and Tony award-winning play for the screen, with Cynthia Erivo as Tessa, a defence barrister from working-class roots whose certainty in the law is tested when she becomes a victim herself. Directed by Susanna White, with Mike Eley as cinematographer, it was shot in London in autumn 2025, including at the Old Bailey and Lincoln’s Inn. Simon Russell Beale and Toheeb Jimoh co-star.