Hattie Morahan
Harriet Jane Morahan ( born 1979 in London) is an English actress.
Private life
The actress is the youngest daughter of producer Christopher Morahan and actress Anna Carteret. She attended schools Frensham Heights School and New Hall. She studied at Cambridge. During her studies she directed and played in student performances. One of her roles was in the drama View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller as Catherine, for which she also won a prize in 1999 at the National Student Drama Festival.
She is engaged to actor and producer Blake Ritson, with whom she has collaborated on one of his three short films.
Career
Her debut celebrated at the age of 17, when she played the lead role of Una Gwithian in the two-part BBC adaptation of The Peacock Spring ( 1996). 2001 Morahan member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where they celebrated her theater debut in Stratford- upon- Avon, in the plays Love in a Wood, and her debut in London at the Barbican Theatre in December 2001 in Hamlet.
At the Tricycle Theatre in March 2004, she played the singer in Ruby by Peter Flannery. In the same year she worked for the first time with Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre in Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis together.
In July 2005, she appeared in Nick Dears Power. Great success they had in the West Yorkshire Playhouse in September 2005 in the role of Viola in Ian Brown's production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
In 2006, she played the lead role of Penelope Toop in Philip King's running away but not always. In the same year she played Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull at the Lyttleton Theatre. With this role, she won her second prize, Ian Charleson Awards 2007.
They also play Elinor Dashwood in the 2008 three-part BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility based on the novel by Jane Austen. For this role she was given on 13 June 2008 at the fourteenth Ian Charleson Awards the award for Best Actress.
In July 2008, she starred in Katie Mitchell's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot, together with the actor Ben Whishaw at the Cottesloe Theatre. Later they play in TS Eliot's A Family Day at the Donmar Warehouse. In April 2009, she played Kay Conway in Rupert Goolds John Boynton Priestley's production of Time and the Conways.
Roll
Theater
- 2001: Love in a Wood by William Wycherley as Lucy (RSC Swan Theatre, Producer Tim Supple ), Hamlet as a lady (RSC Stratford and Barbican, producer Steven Pimlott ) and The Prisoner 's Dilemma by David Edgar as Emilia (RSC The Other Place and The Pit, Barbican, producer Michael Attenborough )
- 2003: Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring as Elaine ( beach Theatre, Producer Francis Matthews ) and Power by Nick Dear Louise de la Valliere as ( Cottesloe Theatre, producer Lindsay Posner )
- 2004: Singer of Peter Flannery as Ruby ( Oxford Stage Company, producer Sean Holmes) and Euripides ' Iphigenia in Aulis Iphigenia as ( Lyttelton Theatre, Producer Katie Mitchell)
- 2005: Twelfth Night by Shakespeare as Viola ( West Yorkshire Playhouse, Producer Ian Brown)
- 2006: Do not run away forever as Penelope Toop ( producer Douglas Hodge ) and The Seagull Nina ( Olivier Theatre, Producer Katie Mitchell)
- 2008: The City by Martin Crimp as Clair ( Royal Court Theatre, Producer Katie Mitchell) and ... some trace of her, based on Dostoyevsky's The Idiot as Nastassja ( National Theatre Cottesloe, producer Katie Mitchell)
- 2008-2009: A family day of TS Eliot as Mary ( Donmar Warehouse, producer Jeremy Herrin )
- 2011: Plenty ( dt in abundance ) by David Hare as Susan Traherne ( Sheffield Crucible Theatre studio, producer Thea Sharrock )
Film
- 2002: Short Too Close To The Bone
- 2004: short film Out of Time as a receptionist
- 2007: The Golden Compass as a nanny Clara
- 2008: The Bank Job as Gale Benson
TV
Radio
- 2006: Trevor's World of Sport as Carrie ( guest role )
- 2010: The Art of Deception as Jessica Brown ( BBC Radio 4 )
- 2010/2011: I, Claudius as Agrippina ( BBC Radio 4 )