Emma May Ruth Paetz (born in 1993 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian actress.
She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London and made herself a career mostly on stage until the mid-2010s. She's best known for the role of Martha Wayne (née Kane), the future mother of Bruce Wayne, in the Epix series Pennyworth.
Filmography:
- Selling Innocence (2005 film) as Stephanie Walker
- Final Girl (2015) as Jennifer
- Juliet, Naked (2018 film) as Grace (voice)
- The Looming Tower (2018) as Mother
- Press (2018) as Rachel Gilmour
- Gentleman Jack (2018) as Catherine Rawson
- Pennyworth (2019-2022) as Martha Wayne, née Kane
- Boys From County Hell (2021) as Michelle
Tropes & Trivia about her career:
- Darkhorse Casting: Like her co-star Jack Bannon, she was a total unknown if one's not a modern British theatre connaisseur, before being cast as an iconic character of the Batman mythos in Pennyworth.
- Fake American: She's Canadian, and portrays the American Martha Kane.