Actress (aka Darren J Cunningham) is an artist and producer based in London. Across multiple releases for Ninja Tune and via his own Werkdiscs imprint, Cunningham has created his own arcane language filled with hermetic references and inter-dimensional electronic composition.

Often prefiguring key musical and cultural currents with his work, Actress has reimagined Stockhausen, collaborated with an AI trained on his own music as far back as 2018, and collaborated across forms with artist Lewis Hammond, creative studio Actual Objects (on gallery installation Grey Interiors), London Contemporary Orchestra and Australian art-rock group HTRK.

Most recently Actress aligned with Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound for the Statik LP (2024), as well as presenting Concrete Waves, a prestige live duo project with US synthesiser music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.