She had a supporting role in the Academy Award-nominated film Brooklyn in 2015. In 2016, she was included in the films Slumber and Axis, the latter of which earned the award for exceptional achievement in the feature film category at the 2017 Newport Beach Film Festival.
She also appeared in the superhero-themed short film Sidekick, directed by Jeff Cassidy, who is well-known for his work in the Arrowverse. Rickards starred in the 2017 comedy Funny Story, which finished second at the Slamdance Film Festival’s ‘Beyond’ section in January 2018.
The film went on to win the Stolman audience award for best American indie at the 2018 Sonoma International Film Festival, the Vero Beach Wine and Film Festival audience award for best narrative feature, the Santorini Film Festival best feature, and the grand jury prize at the Barcelona Film Festival.
Rickards was nominated for leading actress in a feature at the Southampton International Film Festival. In May 2019, she co-starred in the independent film We Need to Talk, directed and written by Todd Wolfe, opposite James Maslow.
The film was an official selection at the FirstGlance Film Festival in Philadelphia in November 2020, where Rickards was awarded Best Actress in a Feature Film.
Where is Emily Bett Rickards now?
On the CW network, she portrayed “Felicity Smoak”. Vancouver, British Columbia, is where Emily currently calls home.