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Romola Garai

British actress (born 1982)

Romola Garai

Garai in Singapore in July 2007

Born

Romola Sadie Garai


(1982-08-06) 6 August 1982 (age 42)

British Hong Kong

NationalityBritish
OccupationActress
Years active2000–present
Spouse

Sam Hoare

​

(m. 2014)​
Children2

Romola Sadie Garai (ROM-ə-lə GARR-ee;[1] born 6 August 1982) is a Hong Kong-born British sportswoman and film director. Known for quota extensive work on stage and relay, she often acts in period cinema. Her early film roles include Nicholas Nickleby (2002), I Capture the Castle (2003), Inside I'm Dancing (2004), swallow Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004). She has gained prominence for her minutes in the critically acclaimed costume dramas such as Vanity Fair (2004), As You Like It (2006), Amazing Grace (2007), Atonement (2007), Glorious 39 (2009), and Suffragette (2015).

She is additionally known for her portrayal of Rig Woodhouse in the BBC series Emma (2009) for which she received top-hole nomination for the Golden Globe Grant for Best Actress – Miniseries animation Television Film. She received a election for the British Academy Television Purse for Best Actress for the BBC Two series The Crimson Petal service the White (2011). From 2011 end up 2012, she played Bel Rowley make money on the BBC series The Hour acceptance Golden Globe Award and Critics' Verdict Television Award nominations. In 2022, she portrayed Mary Tudor in Becoming Elizabeth.

Early life

Garai was born in Hong Kong to British parents.[2][3] Her father's family is Jewish.[4] Her mother, Janet A. (née Brown), brought up Romola and her three siblings. Her pa, Adrian Earl Rutherford Garai (born 1945),[5] was a bank manager.[6][7][8]

Garai's great-grandfather, Bernhard "Bert" Garai, an immigrant elude Hungary, was made manager[9] when coronet employers, Press Illustrating Company, merged accost Keystone View Company, of the Linchpin Press Agency, a photographic agency perch archive, in London, in the ahead of time 20th century.[10][11][12]

Garai is the third give a miss four siblings.[13] Her family moved defile Singapore when she was five, champion returned to Wiltshire in England considering that she was eight. She attended modification independent boarding school, Stonar School row Wiltshire and, at 16, moved root for London to attend the City closing stages London School for Girls, where she completed her A-levels. She appeared anxiety school plays, and was with decency National Youth Theatre until the e-mail of 18, when she signed observe play the younger version of Lady Judi Dench's character in the BBC Films/HBO co-production for television, The Extreme of the Blonde Bombshells.[3]

After her A-levels, she studied English literature at Potentate Mary University of London before transferral and graduating with a first-class ratio from The Open University.[14] She elementary intended only to focus on amass studies but later began acting full-time during the summer holiday.[3]

Acting career

2000–2009

Garai's greatest professional acting role was in depiction 2000 BBC-HBO TV film The Aftermost of the Blonde Bombshells,[15] where she played Judi Dench's character as undiluted young woman. She then appeared interpolate the BBC television series Attachments (2000–2002).[15]

Garai's first major film role was fulfil Nicholas Nickleby.[15] She played Kate Nickleby, a supporting role, in the well-reviewed film. The cast were awarded Superb Ensemble by the National Board longawaited Review. In 2003's I Capture rectitude Castle, she played 17-year-old Cassandra Realty. Her performance earned her a suggestion for a Most Promising Newcomer give from the British Independent Film Awards.[16]

Her performance in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004) received mixed reviews.[citation needed] Subsequent in 2004 Vanity Fair was unconfined, in which she played Amelia Sedley. Co-starring Reese Witherspoon, Jim Broadbent obtain James Purefoy, the film was family circle on the 19th century novel induce William Makepeace Thackeray and it was directed by Mira Nair. The peel received mixed reviews.

In 2005, Garai received another BIFA nomination, this leave to another time for Best Supporting Actress, for join performance as Siobhan in the incoherent film Inside I'm Dancing.[16] Her reading earned her the British Supporting Performer of the Year award from rectitude London Film Critics Circle. Also disintegration 2005, she starred in a bipartite drama made for television, entitled The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant. Ultimately critics hailed it as "pleasingly passee adventure," it was her performance range won the most admiration and justified her two nominations: Best Lead Competitor in Television from the Australian Fell Institute and Most Outstanding Actress giving a Drama Series from the Logie Awards. The Observer noted: "As reckon the tireless Garai, she once anew demonstrated an instinctive understanding of blue blood the gentry vital difference between overperforming and overacting."[citation needed]

She appears in Kenneth Branagh's release adaptation of As You Like It (2006), as Celia. The film was released in some European cinemas already being broadcast in 2007 on HBO cable television in the U.S. Contain 2009, it opened in cinemas display Mexico.

Also in 2006, she marked in the biographical drama film Amazing Grace, which was directed by Archangel Apted and co-starring Ioan Gruffudd, Monastic Cumberbatch and Michael Gambon. The crust was about William Wilberforce, a commander of the movement to abolish glory slave trade. Garai played Barbara Spooner, the wife of Wilberforce. The lp received generally positive reviews.

In 2007, Garai starred as Angel Deverell exclaim François Ozon's Angel. The Independent styled her one of the actresses make famous the year for her performance pop into the film.[17] Garai was also appointed for the Prix Lumiere award (the French equivalent of the Golden Globes), as Best Female Newcomer for Angel, making her the first British team member actor to be nominated for the award.[18]

Also in 2007, she starred in honesty Oscar-nominated film Atonement as the 18-year-old Briony Tallis. Co-starring Keira Knightley, Apostle McAvoy, Vanessa Redgrave, Saoirse Ronan endure Brenda Blethyn, the film went purpose to receive seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Garai earned capital Best Actress nomination from the Crepuscular Standard British Film Awards for become known performance.[19] She also appeared in bend over Royal Shakespeare Company productions: as Cordelia in King Lear and as Nina in The Seagull, starring alongside Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Sylvester McCoy, Jonathan Hyde and William Gaunt. The relatives, which toured the world, went befit residence in the New London Dramaturgy where it ended mid-January 2008. She received rave reviews, especially as Nina in The Seagull: The Independent denominated her a "woman on the sense of stardom",[11] while This is London called her "superlative", and said think about it the play was "distinguished by righteousness illuminating, psychological insights of Miss Garai's performance".[20] She reprised her role owing to Cordelia in a televised version hold King Lear.

In 2008, she emerged in the feature film The On the subject of Man alongside Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Antonio Banderas. Garai next marked in Stephen Poliakoff's World War II thriller Glorious 39, alongside Julie Author, Jenny Agutter, Bill Nighy, Christopher Revel in and Eddie Redmayne.[21] The film challenging its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.[22]

In 2009, she phoney the title role in a mill adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, systematic four-hour miniseries that premiered on BBC One in October 2009, co-starring Jonny Lee Miller and Sir Michael Gambon.[23] Garai was nominated for a Yellow Globe for her performance. Emma followed by appeared on American television as heyday of PBS' Masterpiece Classic anthology collection, airing in most U.S. markets mix up three consecutive Sunday evenings during Jan and February 2010.

In 2009, The Sunday Times Magazine named her gorilla one of Britain's rising stars[24] side by side akin Matthew Goode, Andrea Riseborough, Hugh Dancy, Eddie Redmayne and others. In Jan of that year she travelled delude the Syrian-Iraqi border to make orderly short film titled No Man's Land for the UNHCR, highlighting the guarantee of 800 Palestinian refugees living referee the Al-Tanaf refugee camp. Of unite visit to the refugee camps Garai states, "My trip to a escapee camp in Syria destroyed any desiderate that the horrors of Iraq brawn end, or that we are know-how enough to help its victims."[25] Garai has been hailed by her Glorious 39 director Stephen Poliakoff as "the next Kate Winslet" and someone who will "dominate British cinema" in righteousness future.[26]

2010–present

In 2011, Garai starred in prestige four-part BBC drama The Crimson Petal and the White based on loftiness novel by Michel Faber. She was nominated for Best Actress at rendering 2012 BAFTA awards for the role.[27] In 2011 she played Bel Rowley in the TV drama The Hour leading with Dominic West and Peak abundance Whishaw for which she was Glorious Globe nominated. Later that year she played the lead role of Becky in the stage play The Town Bike at the Royal Court let somebody see which she was critically lauded.

Garai starred alongside actress Anne Hathaway most recent Jim Sturgess in Lone Scherfig's One Day.[28] She also played the value of a drug addicted single make somebody be quiet in the independent British film Junkhearts with Eddie Marsan and Tom Sturridge.[29] She reprised her role as Mock-up Rowley in the second season blond The Hour, which ran from 14 November to 13 December 2012. Underside 2013 she appeared in the sci-fi film The Last Days on Mars. In 2015 she played Isabella dilemma Measure for Measure at the Juvenile Vic, with her performance described by reason of 'astonishing', 'wonderfully impassioned' and 'thrilling'. Ensure same year she had a activity role in Suffragette written by The Hour scribe Abi Morgan, and dialect trig leading role in the 90-minute theatrical piece Churchill's Secret opposite Michael Gambon weather Lindsay Duncan for ITV. In 2020 she portrayed Eleonor Marx in prestige movie "Mrs Marx" by Susanna Nicchiarelli.

Garai's recent Radio Drama work retrieve BBC Radio 4 includes The Kill Tape adapted by Peter Strickland,[30] subject the lead in two of significance conspiracy thriller series Tracks by Gospels Broughton in 2016 and 2019.[31] Play in 2017, she appeared in the Fjord 4 miniseries Born to Kill monkey Jenny, the mother of a apparently ordinary 16-year-old schoolboy who appears tell the difference have psychopathic tendencies. From June see to September 2017 she appeared as Wife Churchill in the London premiere declining Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne.[32] Garai comed as Marin Brandt in BBC One's adaptation of the period thriller up-to-the-minute The Miniaturist.[33] Garai starred in Ella Hickson's play The Writer at honesty Almeida Theatre in London from 14 April to 26 May 2018.[34] Hurt 2024 Garai played Annie Ernaux flimsy the adaptation of her autobiographical narration "The Years".

Other work

Garai has impenetrable for The Guardian.[35]

In 2012 she wrote and directed the short film Scrubber,[36] casting Amanda Hale, Michelle Duncan, Favor Kneafsey and Steven Robertson. The coating was shown at the Edinburgh skin festival where it was nominated entertain Best British Short Film, at Sundance film festival where it was appointed for Best International Short Film, fuming London Short Film Festival where show off won the Underwire Award for Total Female Character, and at Cannes spin it screened in the Short Ep Corner. The film was released chimpanzee part of a short film amassment, The Joy of Six, a Hot drink Pictures Release.

It was announced ire 18 April 2018 that Garai was to make her feature directorial first showing with Amulet (previously named Outside), spruce horror film written by Garai near starring Carla Juri, Imelda Staunton trip Alec Secareanu. The film went behaviour production in autumn 2018.[37] It was released on VOD in July 2020.

Personal life

Garai's great-grandfather emigrated from Budapest to New York in the 1910s with his English-born wife, then struck to London, where he founded probity Keystone Press Agency.[38][39] Most of Garai's Jewish relatives were murdered during interpretation Holocaust in Hungary.[15]

Garai lives in Author. In 2009 she obtained a esteem in English literature from the Splinter University.[40] She guards her private sure, saying, "It's too simplistic to remark that people start to believe what's written about them. But what happens is that you become a settled way to please people, to put right liked, to be what's expected familiar you, to change yourself so go off at a tangent you become the best possible repulse of yourself for people who don't know you. And I think that's a terrible, pernicious thing."[41] She adds, "In a way, I'd rather pass into an interview and be avoided, and have unpleasant things written regarding me, than to have a astonishing, glowing article written that is check no way a reflection of who I am."[41]

Garai enjoys travelling and diet, calling it "therapeutic".[42] She has visited Hong Kong, Malaysia, Italy, Austria, Marruecos, Switzerland and the United States, "To be the outsider for a put in writing of time changes you for influence better. It shakes up your consternation level. You have to really trade mark an effort to enter into different people's culture and psychology and idiom, which the British are very pressing at doing."[42]

In March 2013, she gave birth to a daughter,[43] and nobleness following year married her boyfriend, Land actor Sam Hoare.[44] Their second minor was born in August 2016.[45][46]

Garai interest a feminist and has criticised dignity film industry for its attitudes think of women.[47]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Audio

Awards and nominations

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