There is a certain irony in the fact that Aimee Lou Wood, who is honest to her craft and performances on-screen and is known for her warm, endearingly talkative and refreshingly unfiltered off-screen charm, has often been a part of conversations discussing her smile and teeth.
Aimee Lou Wood is no stranger to praise or scrutiny. At 31, with standout roles in Sex Education and The White Lotus, and having won the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, she is among Britain’s stars with most compelling screen presence.
Wood makes clear that she is done with the attention surrounding her smile, and would prefer being discussed for the characters she plays.
“It’s, like, cool, and now I want to stop f***ing talking about it. Can I talk about my character? Why am I talking about my gnashers?”
Per Us magazine, Aimee Lou Wood shared her thoughts in an interview with The Sunday Times published on Saturday, April 5, 2025. She said:
“It’s like now I’m just a pair of front teeth.”
Wood addressed the public conversation surrounding her teeth.
“I understand what it represents. People feel more confident about their imperfections. It does feel a bit weird that the thing I got bullied for is now the thing that everyone’s, like, ‘Woo!’” she said of her smile. “It’s still the thing that’s defining me.”
Wood brings the same honesty that one spots in her acting, while discussing something as personal as her teeth.
“I’d always be super confident when I went to theater auditions, but if it was a TV thing I’d be so shocked when I got a recall,” she told Stylist in 2020. “I sometimes thought, ‘Oh, a Channel 4 thing, I might have a chance on there.’ Then Sex Education came along and I was like, ‘Well, what have I seen on Netflix? Everyone has perfect Hollywood teeth.’”
Aimee Lou Wood reflects on her career
In a February interview with On Demand Entertainment, Wood admitted she hadn't anticipated portraying an American character on television.
“It’s the teeth. Like, no Americans have my teeth,” she said. “They just don’t. I’d have to get veneers. Because I think that genuinely is like one of the things. “[After I played an American in a play] a guy after in the bar was like … he was talking to me, and I spoke to him, and I spoke like this, and he went, ‘I knew it. I knew it.’ Because he was like, ‘Your accent was great, but I knew you weren’t American. You just don’t look American.’”
On The Jonathan Ross Show, Wood confessed she "can't believe the impact" her looks are having, adding that she is just as surprised as anyone by the flood of compliments from fans.
"It feels so lovely. A real full-circle moment after being bullied for my teeth forever. Now people are clapping in an audience," she said.
In a conversation with Stylist in 2020, Wood was asked if her teeth have been a barrier for her with landing roles.
"No, I don’t. It’s completely in my head. It’s a myth I’ve told myself. I had it in my brain that I’m not conventional-looking enough and that’s a mental barrier I’ve had to overcome." she said.
She shared about the messages she received and the impact made on her fans. According to People:
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After landing the Netflix role, however, Wood said she has received "hundreds of messages" from fans. "People going, ‘Oh my god, you’ve got teeth like mine," she said. "Now I go to school and people think I’m cool because I look like Aimee.’ Instead of it being ‘Bugs Bunny’ or whatever."
Wood thanked Georgia May Jagger for representing buck teeth, as Jagger was the face of Rimmel London when she was at school and that changed perspective on how people saw her.
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