Mia Sasha McKenna-Bruce was born on 3 July 1997 in the Bexley area of south-east London and raised in Chislehurst, Bromley. She is 29 years old. Having started performing professionally as a child, she has built a long screen career that later developed into award-winning adult roles and international recognition.
She is the eldest of three sisters; her younger sisters are Anya and Ellis McKenna-Bruce. Her mother is Angela McKenna-Bruce and her father, Wayne, runs an air-conditioning engineering company.
She began dance classes at two and studied at Liz Burville Performing Arts Centre, Belcanto London Academy and Sapphire Dance Academy, as well as Maidstone Grammar School for Girls.
From Child Actor to Award Winner
Her first professional stage role was as a ballet girl in the West End production of Billy Elliot the Musical. As a child, she appeared in EastEnders and other television.
From 2010, she played Tee Taylor across Tracy Beaker Returns, The Dumping Ground and related series, work that lasted into her late teens. She has spoken about learning on set rather than attending formal drama school.
Adult film roles include Mary Musgrove in the 2022 adaptation of Persuasion and the lead role of Tara in Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex in 2023.
That performance won her a British Independent Film Award, the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2024, and a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actress.
She has since appeared in The Seven Dials Mystery for Netflix as Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent and has been announced for the role of Maureen Starkey in the upcoming Beatles biographical films scheduled for 2028.
Husband, Child and Family Life
In her personal life, she met actor Tom Leach on the set of The Rebels in 2019. They became engaged in February 2022 and married on 8 August 2024 at Brympton House in Somerset.
Their son Leo was born in August 2023. She has described motherhood as magical but not easy and has spoken about adjusting her work choices to spend time with her child.
Estimates of her net worth sit around five million dollars, reflecting long-running television work from childhood, the awards attention from How to Have Sex, and subsequent projects.
She remains based in the UK and continues to balance screen roles with family life. From child-star television work to an award-winning lead performance and major upcoming projects, McKenna-Bruce has successfully turned an early start in the industry into a steadily expanding adult career.
