Independent Women 2024 - The Influence List

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Georgia Harrison open image in gallery Harrison, who has appeared on The Only Way Is Essex and Love Island, has become a campaigner since becoming a victim of revenge porn From voicing hopes to become a Labour MP in Essex to attending the party’s conference in Liverpool, last year was the year in which Georgia Harrison set herself apart from many fellow reality TV stars. Dua Lipa open image in gallery Dua Lipa is smart as well as political; she has her own book club, where she interviews authors like Hanya Yanagihara and Brit Bennet, and spoke at last year’s Hay Festival Aged 25, Gen Z pop queen Dua Lipa has risen to fame in a landscape quite comfortable with the idea of powerful women – but it’s certainly not something she has taken for granted. Ambika Mod open image in gallery When Ambika Mod joined her university’s comedy society as a student, she decided that making people laugh is “the best feeling in the world”. Lashana Lynch open image in gallery Most recently, she’s been praised for her portrayal of Rita Marley in Bob Marley: One Love, a role she has described as a “dream” From warm-hearted teacher in the musical adaptation of Matilda to the first ever female 007 agent in No Time to Die to a nineteenth-century warrior in The Woman King, London-born actor Lashana Lynch refuses to be typecast.