Since its release in 2006, The Holiday has been a firm favorite among Christmas films.
And while Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Jack Black have remained major Hollywood stars in the eighteen years that have passed, other cast members have continued their lives out of the spotlight.
Miffy Englefield, from West Sussex, was just six when she played Jude’s character Graham’s eldest child Sophie.
Now the former child star looks unrecognizable and has put her acting career on hold to focus on mothering her four-year-old daughter Frankie.
Miffy’s natural red hair is now jet black and partially shaved and she has numerous tattoos and body modifications.
The mother-of-one appears to be doing some modeling and describes herself on her Instagram: “Short, loud and most of all ridiculous. Hot mom. Always overdressed. All grown up’.
Since its release in 2006, The Holiday has been a favorite among Christmas films. And while Cameron Diaz and Jude Law are Hollywood stars, other cast members have stayed out of the spotlight
Miffy Englefield, from West Sussex, was just six when she played Jude’s character Graham’s eldest child Sophie – but now she’s a mother of one and has undergone a punk transformation
‘I’m a mother now, I have a three-year-old. I feel like that’s the biggest change. I have a fantastic daughter,” Miffy told MailOnline (in the photo you can see the iconic photo of Amanda Wood)
Miffy told MailOnline last year: ‘I think I’ve changed quite a bit since I was six, I think a lot of people have, but especially myself. It wasn’t until I started TikTok that I started getting recognition.
‘I’m a mother now, I have a three-year-old. I feel like that’s the biggest change. I have a wonderful daughter and I am in the very, very fortunate position of being able to stay at home with her until she goes to school, which is actually not far away at all.’
She laughed, “I feel very, very old when I think about it.”
Now she’s found fame as a content creator in a new way on TikTok, where she has 74,000 followers: The child star makes videos with her partner Alex Whivley-Conway and their little girl Frankie.
Miffy started her TikTok journey during the pandemic, which she described as a “really weird time” to have a baby.
She explained: ‘I live quite far away from the rest of my family, so I was quite isolated. I’m really into fashion and stuff these days and I decided I was going to make little videos and it just grew from there.
‘I would start talking about the holidays there and I do a lot of second-hand shopping and things like that. It was fantastic, I met so many lovely people through it and I love it. I absolutely love posting there.”
‘I was a rather unusual six-year-old. I was very bizarre and overconfident, I think that’s the best way to describe it.
At the time, she “didn’t really understand the speed” of what she was doing – for the youngster it was another “excuse to perform.”
Miffy’s natural ginger hair is now jet black and partially shaved and she now has plenty of tattoos and body modifications
While she was frozen in time on our screens as a child, she is now an adult at the age of 25 and has a daughter of her own
A big fan of Christmas, Miffy loves being part of the festive memories and experiences of people all over the world and now also shares updates from her life on TikTok
She added: “But it was very surreal, you know, we came from quite a poor background and lived in a council house.
‘It was very, very different from the life me and my father knew and being on a film set was very surreal.
Reminiscing about filming alongside stars like Jude and Cameron, she said: “It was lovely. I mean, I couldn’t have asked for better treatment, and neither could my father.
‘We got along really well with everyone and they always made time for us, both off and on screen.
Miffy described her on-screen father as ‘fantastic, funny and kind’.
She said: ‘I remember on set we were all telling each other tongue twisters for half an hour and just thinking it was hilarious.
“He was so patient with us and there was no separation between doing the work and interacting with us – they didn’t have to do that at all, but they did.”
She concluded, “I couldn’t have asked for better people to work with it. It was easily my best experience on any film set’.
As a big fan of Christmas, Miffy enjoys being part of the festive memories and experiences of people all over the world.
She joked: ‘Oh, it’s so bizarre. A few years ago I was sent a photo of Khloe Kardashian looking on vacation. That’s insane, like that’s ridiculous.
‘A few years ago I got a message on Instagram from a lady who was getting married and she loved The Holiday so much that in her wedding book, ‘The People Signed’, she had her and her partner recreate the poster from The Holiday. , which baffles me.
‘It’s absolutely crazy. My father and I didn’t realize how big the movie would become at home.
“So to get messages 20 years later that make me feel incredibly old, that people look forward to. It’s like their Christmas tradition: they come home to their family and that’s what they watch.
“It blows my mind, it’s absolutely insane and I love it. I love being a small part of people’s Christmas traditions. I think it’s so sweet.’
Her daughter Frankie watched the film ‘as soon as she could talk’ and it has become a running joke in the family – but she herself hasn’t watched it in a few years, having struggled with ‘cringing’ at herself as a child.