Emily Head

Head is the elder daughter of actor Anthony Head. She has a sister, Daisy, who is also an actress. She attended the BRIT School in Croydon, where she studied acting and was a schoolmate of singers Katy B and Adele.

Head played a supporting role as Carli D'Amato in E4's sitcom The Inbetweeners from 2008 to 2010 and appeared in the follow-up 2011 film The Inbetweeners Movie. She also appeared in an episode of M.I. High, in which she played an evil mastermind involved in a bank scam.

In 2011, she appeared alongside Coronation Street star Craig Gazey in Jason Hall's play Third Floor. In December 2011, she played Melissa Milcote in the Bristol Old Vic production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy at the Colston Hall in Bristol.

In 2013, it was announced she would be appearing in the Bravo drama Rita, playing the title character's daughter. In 2014, she played Angela "Ange" in an in-the-round production of Abigail's Party at Leicester's Curve.

Emmerdale

In September 2016, it was announced that Head would be joining the cast of the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, playing the role of Rebecca White. Rebecca is the daughter of Lawrence White (John Bowe), half-sister of Chrissie White (Louise Marwood) and aunt of Lachlan White (Thomas Atkinson). Head made her first appearance as Rebecca on 11 October 2016. Head's character left Emmerdale in the episode broadcast on 2 November 2018.