Courtney Eaton

Biography

Courtney Eaton is an Australian model and actress. She is known for her supporting roles as Cheedo the Fragile in the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road, and as Zaya in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt. Eaton was born in Bunbury, Western Australia. She studied at Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School. Her father, Stephen Eaton, an IT manager, is Australian, of English descent, and her mother is a New Zealander, of Chinese, Maori, and Cook Islander ancestry. Eaton was spotted by Christine Fox, head of Vivien’s Models, in a fashion graduation at age eleven. Fox signed up Eaton with her father’s blessing and prepared her to model at age sixteen. She took part in an acting workshop with Myles Pollard as part of her model-ling development, and auditioned in Sydney for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 2015. Eaton landed a part and co-starred in the series as Cheedo the Fragile, one of the five wives of Immortan Joe in the film. Of her part, Eaton said that Fragile is “the youngest of the [five] wives.” Eaton co-starred in the fantasy action film Gods of Egypt (2016) (2016), as Zaya, a slave girl and love interest of one of the main characters (Brenton Thwaites), appearing alongside Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, under Alex Proyas’ direction. In May 2016, it was announced that Eaton would be starring alongside Ross Lynch in the comedy film Status Update, which was to begin filming the next month.