Aimee Lou Wood’s little-known lookalike sister reveals hilarious comment she receives from fans
Aimee Lou Wood shot to stardom following her stint on Sex Education and, more recently, White Lotus.
However, the Stockport-born actress isn’t the only Wood on the up; her lookalike makeup artist sister, Emily Wood, is making similarly impressive moves, indicating they’re moments away from becoming the UK’s next related power duo.
While Aimee is on-screen or writing scripts, with her upcoming screenwriting debut, Film Club, coming out soon via BBC, Emily might be decorating the faces of those starring, including her sister.
It’s not just their passion for their respective crafts, candid demeanours, and captivating quirkiness that link the sisters but also their strikingly similar appearances.
After a quick scroll on Emily’s TikTok channel, where she reveals her ‘face decorating’ skills, viewers leave copious comments reading, ‘You look just like Aimee Lou Wood’ or ‘You look like that girl from White Lotus’.
While each has some independent traits, their strikingly alike physical characteristics link the sisters more than typical siblings, though one of their shared features has recently sparked debate – their unique teeth.
Aimee told the Jonathan Ross show how classmates bullied her because of her bucked teeth, a look Emily shares, and that Americans ‘can’t believe’ them, but she sees the trait as a sign of ‘sexual heat’.
Emily similarly embraces her natural beauty and typically enhances her looks with nothing but a lip liner, a makeup style British Vogue coined the ‘viral lip liner hack’.
White Lotus actress Aimee Lou Wood (pictured left) is on the up – and it appears as though her makeup artist sister, Emily Wood (pictured right), isn’t far behind
Growing up, the sisters had a complex relationship with their father, who worked as a car dealer for much of their childhood.
Previously addressing her ‘turbulent’ upbringing in The Guardian, Aimee said her father battled drink and drug addiction and would leave the family home without warning for days on end.
She said: ‘He would go out for a pint and not come back for days. He once went out and didn’t come back for 10 weeks because he’d been to the World Cup in Korea.’
‘He was a party animal on the scene in Manchester so he would hang out with celebrities and Manchester City football players; he had a massive ego, so that gave him validation,’ she added.
‘Because of him, my mum had to carry a lot on her shoulders. She tried to protect us, and took responsibility for it, in a way.’
Her parents divorced while she was at school, and Aimee lived with her mother and her new partner, who paid for her to go to a private secondary school, where she first took up drama.
Emily has racked up over 80 thousand Instagram followers by sharing images and footage of her work
The makeup artist did her sister’s makeup for a recent Burberry campaign – It’s Always Burberry Weather: London in Love
The 31-year-old actress has made a name for herself in the latest season of HBO’s White Lotus (pictured in the series playing Chelsea)
Despite previous struggles, Aimee’s father is now sober, and their relationship is far healthier.
Their difficulties growing up haven’t taken away from the sister’s shared infectious, bubbly energies, which became evident in one of their first interviews in 2019.
They told Notion of their ‘hilarious’ nature, ability to ‘chat out our a****’, and their experience of the UK’s North-South divide after moving to London.
‘London can be so overwhelming and full on – our Northern mentality is so different to how London works,’ Aimee said.
She added, ‘I found it difficult when I first moved here, like, saying ‘hi’ to people is mental here. If you greet someone in Tesco Metro, they look at you like you’re about to mug them or something.’
Moving in with her sister Emily made the voyage into the south of England easier, allowing the pair to feel completely at home ‘without having to worry about being cool,’ the actress added.
Despite occasionally worrying how others in the UK’s capital perceived them, the pair are self-assured in their abilities and aware of their ‘clever and beautiful ways’.
One thing they’re keen to avoid is comparison, with each Wood sister on their own path to success, teaching one another learned pearls of wisdom along the way.
Emily considers her nana Sylvia (pictured enjoying season two of White Lotus in bed) to be her muse
Elsewhere, a 2020 Polyester article described the duo as ‘thick as thieves’, who finish off each other’s sentences and share the same voices.
So, it appears that one of the only differences between the pair is their creative output of choice.
Emily, arguably a filmmaker in her own right via her creative TikToks, has crafted impressive makeup looks for a string of brands, including Flannels.
The 28-year-old also designed Aimee’s makeup for her feature in Burberry’s recent It’s Always Burberry Weather: London in Love campaign, where she posed alongside Top Boy alum Michael Ward.
Though Emily is a natural at painting her sister’s face, it’s her Nana who she considers to be her greatest inspiration.
Emily, who described herself as ‘neurodivergent’, having been diagnosed with dyslexia aged nine, told Off the Block: ‘Her name is Sylvia. She’s Irish. She’s f****** hilarious… So beautiful and absolutely nuts.
‘She is my muse. I love doing other people’s faces, but she’s the only person I really crave doing makeup on.’
Sylvia isn’t exempt from Emily’s love of doing makeup outdoors either, something that’s become a bit of a trademark for the 28-year-old.
Aimee’s convincing performance in White Lotus has helped her secure a dedicated fan base in America
Aimee has told how her father (pictured) – who she now has a better relationship with – battled drink and drug addiction and would leave the family home without warning for days on end
Pictured: Aimee Lou Wood as Aimee Gibbs in season two of Netflix’s Sex Education, aired in January 2020
Much like nature, Emily’s approach to makeup is perfectly imperfect. She crafts looks by blending squiggled lines with products designed for a different purpose.
‘My process often looks really messy and textured, and that’s when a lot of people go ‘lol, what the hell are you up to?’ without watching the whole video. It’s like, baby, another 10 more seconds and you’ll see me finesse it,’ she told Off the Block.
Emily wants her unconventional approach to show that there’s no need to follow a strict method or use a makeup bag filled with products to create a desired look.
It’s a message that Aimee, who has struggled with self-image in the past, no doubt now embraces.
In 2021, Aimee revealed to the Observer how peers at school bullied her over her appearance.
This negative experience led the star, who attended the top acting academy RADA before taking on meaty theatre roles at The National in London, to believe she wouldn’t get a TV job, saying she was ‘too weird looking’.
She added: ‘Anyone who’s been bullied knows what it’s like to hear these things, to internalise it and turn it in on yourself and go ‘If I was just less ugly, just less this, just more this’.
The star also struggled with anorexia and bulimia, saying that her eating disorders were often a reaction to being too much of a people-pleaser.
‘I always know if I’ve had a particularly people please-y time,’ she said. ‘Suddenly, I’m not eating. Or I have that feeling, ‘I have to make myself sick!’
‘You’ve compromised your integrity, or you’ve not expressed yourself, then it’s all built up.’
Although the problem was noticed by staff at RADA – an intervention Aimee described as ‘necessary’ – she has still had some moments of self-doubt during her adult career, including when filming Sex Education.
In 2019, Aimee landed her big break in Netflix’s racy comedy Sex Education as the sweet and ditzy Aimee in her first major acting credit.
She played the girlfriend of the headmaster’s son, Adam, played by Connor Swindells, whom she dated in real life.
Though the relationship fizzled out after two years, Aimee told of their mutual love and understanding for one another.
‘We still really love each other and respect each other. It was an okay break-up, it wasn’t dramatic,’ she said.
After soaring to fame in Sex Education, she received industry praise and won the 2021 BAFTA TV Award for Female Performance in a Comedy Programme.
In 2020, Aimee appeared in the play Uncle Vanya, starring alongside Richard Armitage and Toby Jones.
She then went on to join the star-studded cast of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, which saw Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy taking on leading roles.
In another big project, she appeared alongside acting legend Bill Nighy in the 2022 film Living, which follows a humorous bureaucrat who takes time off work in 1950s London after receiving a grim diagnosis.
Aimee went on to appear in Cabaret as Sally Bowles at the Kit Kat Club for a three-month stint.
Last year, Aimee led BBC comedy Daddy Issues, playing a pregnant party girl forced to move back in with her recently divorced father (David Morrissey).
She also returned to Netflix recently, starring in Toxic Town alongside Jodie Whittaker, Claudia Jessie, and Robert Carlyle.
Having gained a younger American fanbase with her work in Sex Education, Aimee has now drawn in an even more monumental crowd via The White Lotus.
Aimee plays Chelsea – the young Mancunian girlfriend of Rick, played by Walton Goggins.
The list of impressive roles is just the start for Aimee, and it’s clear that her younger sister Emily will be by her side and paving her own equally noteworthy path as she climbs the ranks to Hollywood stardom.
