She began her career in 2010 and is best known for her roles in Game of Thrones, Iron Fist, Love and Monsters, The Defenders, Silk, The Matrix Resurrections, The Gray Man, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, and The Royal Hotel.

Jessica Yu-Li Henwick[citation needed] is from Surrey,[2] the daughter of a Singaporean-Chinese mother of Teochew descent and a Zambian-born English father.

[12][13][14][15] In early 2013, Henwick made her professional theatre debut in the international premiere of Running on the Cracks, based on the book by Julia Donaldson.

The Guardian wrote, "with tremendous physical presence, Henwick captures the sense of adolescent righteousness, passion and confusion of a girl trying to create order in an unfair universe.

[26] In 2018, Henwick was cast in Godzilla vs. Kong,[27][28] though her part as well as Zhang Ziyi's role did not make the released theatrical cut.

[29] In 2020, Henwick co-starred in the Fox science fiction thriller Underwater,[30] and the films Love and Monsters and Sofia Coppola's On the Rocks.

[31] That same year she was listed as one of The Hollywood Reporter's Rising Stars[32] and won the Brit to Watch award at the Newport Beach Film Festival.

[35] She was nominated and won Best Supporting Actress on the Gold list Honors for the most outstanding Asian achievements in the film industry.

[51] Henwick won the Mary Pickford prize for female filmmaker, for the Xiaomi short film ‘Bus Girl’ that she wrote, starred in and directed.