Jessica Barden is an English actress. She is best known for playing Alyssa in Channel 4 series The End of the F***ing World, and the film The Lobster (2015).
She also had small roles in Tamara Drewe (2010), Hanna (2011) and Far from the Madding Crowd (2015).
In 2016 she played Justine in Penny Dreadful.
Her film debut was Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007).
She played Alyssa in TEOTFW (2014), a short film based on the graphic novel "The End of the Fucking World". Three years later, she reprised her part in The End of the F***ing World (2017), making her the only actress to appear in both adaptions.
On October 19, 2021, she announced that she had given birth to her first child.