Imogen Waterhouse, or Immy, as her friends and family call her, grew up in Chiswick, an affluent, leafy suburb in West London. Appropriately, the 31-year-old actress speaks with a genteel British accent—something that might surprise those who know her as Jinny St. George, the ambitious, new-money American girl in The Buccaneers, Apple TV+’s Gilded Age drama, which is currently in its second season.
Adapted from Edith Wharton’s final novel, unfinished at the time of her death, in 1937, the show follows a close-knit group of young, rich, and free-spirited American girls as they descend on 1870s London to find husbands among England’s titled, but impoverished, aristocracy. “It’s [about] these women who are free, and trying not to let the constraints of society corset them in,” Waterhouse tells me. The girls get drunk, run around barefoot, and have love affairs to a soundtrack of Chappell Roan and Lana Del Rey. “It’s a period drama, but it doesn’t feel dusty,” says Waterhouse. “You want to see girls unravel a bit in an era where they couldn’t.”
