Name | Rebecca Hall |
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Birth date | May 19, 1982 |
Birth place | London, England |
Birthname | Rebecca Maria Hall |
Years active | 1992–93, 2002–present |
Occupation | Actress |
Parents | Peter HallMaria Ewing }} |
In 2003 Hall won the Ian Charleson Award for her debut stage performance in a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession. She has appeared in four high-profile films: The Prestige, Vicky Cristina Barcelona (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy category), The Town and Frost/Nixon.
In June 2010 Hall won the Supporting Actress BAFTA for her portrayal of Paula Garland in the 2009 Channel 4 production Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974.
Hall attended Roedean School, where she became head girl. She studied English Literature at Cambridge University for two years, before dropping out in 2002. During her time at Cambridge, she appeared in a number of plays and set up a theatre company. She also appeared in student stage productions alongside Dan Stevens, later her As You Like It co-star.
During 2003-2004 Hall was in a relationship with her As You Like It co-star Freddie Stevenson.
Hall's feature film debut came in 2006 as Rebecca Epstein in the film adaptation of David Nicholls's Starter for Ten. She got her breakthrough with the role of Sarah Borden in Christopher Nolan's film The Prestige. She then appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's Joe's Palace in 2007, as well as appearing in several other TV movies including Wide Sargasso Sea and Rubberheart.
Her Hollywood fame grew when she starred in the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, playing one of the title characters, Vicky. Critics praised her performance as well as that of Penélope Cruz, who won an Academy Award. Hall was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. She also appeared in Frost/Nixon in 2008.
Hall was cast with Ben Barnes in the film Dorian Gray, which was released nationwide 9 September 2009.
Hall appeared in Please Give with Catherine Keener and Amanda Peet, and The Town with Ben Affleck and Blake Lively. She is the female lead role in the British ghost film The Awakening, released in September 2011.
Hall is among the actresses being considered for the role of Fantine in Tom Hooper's upcoming film adaptation of Les Misérables.
In 2003 Hall's father celebrated fifty years as a theatre director by staging a season of five plays at the Theatre Royal, Bath. Hall starred in two of these plays; she appeared as Rosalind in her father's production of As You Like It, which gained her a second Charleson nomination and starred in the title role of Thea Sharrock's revival of D. H. Lawrence's The Fight For Barbara.
In 2004 Hall appeared in three plays for the Peter Hall Company at the Theatre Royal, two of which her father directed, namely Man and Superman in which she played Ann, and Galileo's Daughter in which she played Sister Maria Celeste. The third, Molière's Don Juan, in which she played the part of Elvira, was directed by Sharrock.
In 2005 Hall reprised the role of Rosalind in a touring production of As You Like It, again under the direction of her father. This tour took in the following venues: The Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames; The Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York; The Curran Theatre at San Francisco; The Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles and venues in New Haven, Connecticut, Columbus, Ohio, and the historic Wilbur Theater in Boston.
In 2008-9, she appeared in Sam Mendes's first installment of the Bridge Project, as Hermione in The Winter's Tale and Varya in The Cherry Orchard, which gave performances with the same cast in Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, the UK and the US. In 2010–11 she played Viola in a production of Twelfth Night at London's National Theatre, which her father directed.
colspan=4 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film | |||
Year | Film | Role | Notes | |
Rebecca Epstein | ||||
Sarah Borden | ||||
Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Vicky | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | ||
Caroline Cushing | ||||
2009 | Emily Wotton | |||
Please Give | Rebecca | |||
Claire Keesey | ||||
A Bag of Hammers | Mel | post-production | ||
Samantha | ||||
The Awakening | Florence Cathcart | post-production | ||
2012 | Lay the Favorite | Beth Raymer | filming |
colspan=4 style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Television/TV Movies | |||
Year | Film | Role | Notes | |
1992 | The Camomile Lawn | Young Sophie | ||
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends | Lucie | |||
Don't Leave Me This Way | Lizzie Neil | |||
2006 | Wide Sargasso Sea | Antoinette Cosway | ||
Rubberheart | Maggie | |||
Joe's Palace | Tina | |||
Einstein and Eddington | Winifred Eddington | |||
Official Selection | Emily Dickinson | short film | ||
2009 | Paula Garland | |||
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