Emily Bett Rickards Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Emily Bett Rickards is a Canadian actress. Emily Bett Rickards is known for her role as Felicity Smoak on The CW series Arrow, her first television credit. She has also reprized the role in the Arrowverse shows The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl and voiced the character on the animated web series Vixen.

In 2016, Rickards launched a T-shirt campaign in support of the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) through the crowd funding merchandise site Represent.com, with all proceeds going to the charity.

During season four of Arrow, Rickards character Felicity Smoak is paralyzed from the waist down following a shooting incident, and later regains the ability to walk through the use of a prototype microchip, in the episode “Taken”. Rickards filmed a Public Service Announcement in conjunction with the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation advocating for advancements in the treatment of spinal injuries, released on the air date of the episode.

In February 2019, Vancouver Film School announced the “Emily Bett Rickards Acting Scholarship”, a partnership between the school and Rickards, to fund a full scholarship for both of the school’s acting programs, as well as additional partial funding of $250,000 for other students. Rickards will also select the recipients.

In early 2012 Rickards filmed a minor role in the film Random Acts of Romance, starring Amanda Tapping and in May filmed a minor role in Flicka: Country Pride, which starred her future Arrow castmate Kacey Rohl. In November she was cast in the Lifetime television movie Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story, starring Eric McCormack and Matt Barr, which was filmed in early 2013. A fictionalized account of the murder and attempted murder of Peter and Joan Porco, respectively, Rickards played the role of Lauren Philips, a fictionalized love-interest of the killer, Chris Porco.

In March 2014, Rickards was cast in the sequel to Cowgirls ‘n Angels, entitled Cowgirls ‘n Angels: Dakota’s Summer, as Kristen Rose, the sister of the film’s protagonist, Dakota, portrayed by Haley Ramm. The film premiered at the 2014 Dallas International Film Festival.

2015 saw Rickards in a supporting role in the Oscar nominated film Brooklyn. Rickards auditioned for the role with director John Crowley via a Skype call from her agent’s office. Her scenes were filmed in Montreal, and when speaking about the filming experience, she noted “Everyone was so artistic and so meticulous about being respectful of the era and the story, that I’m not surprised with the turnout of how beautiful and well crafted the film is”.