Director - Will Sharpe, Cinematography - Erik Wilson
“I don’t make the world beautiful, Louis. The world is beautiful, and you’ve helped me to see that, too. Just remember - however hard things get, however much you feel like you’re struggling, the world is full of beauty. And it’s up to you to capture it, Louis. To look and to share it with as many people as you can. You are a prism through which that beam of life refracts.”
Aimee Gibbs. She’s a Scabby Queen who loves ham. She doesn’t really know where anything is because she just sort of arrives places. Most importantly, by the end of Sex Education, she’s a young woman who knows what she wants. And Aimee Lou Wood, the young actor who portrays the hilarious, gregarious teen on the breakout Netflix series, is just so pleased to have brought the character to life.
Raised in the Northwest of England, Wood was a self-described “strange child” while growing up. While she’s been in a number of stage productions,Sex Education was her first on-screen role. Her character, Aimee, starts the series off with a bang, quite literally, which helps set the tone for the extremely realistic yet uproarious dramedy. In fact, Aimee is the one to credit for the genesis of the entire Moordale sex clinic — if it weren’t for her wondering “where’s the spunk, Adam,” BFF Maeve would never have concocted the genius plan to turn Otis’s “sex wizard” knowledge into a business.
Wood recently spoke with Teen Vogue about the Netflix series that has everyone talking (and laughing, and perhaps some cringing). She opened up about improvising a few of her most meme’d lines, becoming a symbol for female self-pleasure, getting tagged on Instagram by her favorite drag queens, and more.
Aimee Lou Wood is an actress from Stockport in Manchester, England. She studied acting, first on the Foundation Course at the Oxford School of Drama, then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where she graduated in 2017, obtaining BA Degree in Acting. Her acting debut was in the hit comedt-drama series Sex Education, as produced by Netflix.
Sex Education was a sleeper hit for Netflix in 2019. The show starring Asa Butterfield, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey and Gillian Anderson and a whole bunch more, finally brought some real world teenage angst about relationships to the small screen.
