Ema Horvath

Ema Horvath is an American actress. She has appeared in the films Like.Share.Follow. (2017), The Gallows Act II and The Mortuary Collection (both 2019), and What Lies Below (2020). Since 2022, she has played Eärien, the sister of Isildur, in the Amazon Prime fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Ema H. Horvath was born and raised in the United States by her parents, who were Slovak immigrants. Horvath’s first experience in drama was at the age of five, in her debut acting role as a tulip at her local theatre. Horvath studied acting for two years at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. She then received a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Harvard University. One of her first roles as a freshman was playing the lead character of Katerina in an all-female production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Horvath graduated from Harvard in 2016 and pursued her acting career, having already secured her first screen role in the movie Like.Share.Follow. Horvath’s first screen role was as Shell in the Blumhouse Productions 2017 psychological horror movie Like.Share.Follow. which had its world premiere at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival on October 18, 2017. In 2019, Horvath landed the starring role of Auna Rue in the supernatural horror film The Gallows Act II. The same year, Horvath starred in the 2019 American anthology horror film The Mortuary Collection, which was featured at the Fantasia International Film Festival. In 2020, Horvath continued her run of appearances in the horror genre when playing a 16 year old teenager in the horror film What Lies Below. The same year, Horvath starred alongside Helena Howard, Don Cheadle and Emily Mortimer in the Quibi television series Don’t Look Deeper.