Hayley Atwell

Hayley Elizabeth Atwell ( born April 5, 1982 in London, England ) is a British- American actress.

Life

Training and first television roles

Hayley Atwell grew up as an only child in London's Notting Hill. Her parents, an American photographer and a British real estate agent, separated when she was two years old. Through its two parents Atwell has dual citizenship of the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Atwell attended the London Oratory School in Fulham and received study courses in the fields of philosophy and theology at Oxford. The possibility of studying but she did not notice and instead traveled through Europe two years before she returned to London and with the casting director Jeremy Zimmerman worked on an acting career. Hayley Atwell began her acting studies in 2002 at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where such well-known thespians such as Eileen Atkins, Honor Blackman and Daniel Craig had completed their training. After she had interpreted the title role in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and the female roles in Shakespeare's comedies Troilus and Cressida and The Winter's Tale, among others in the school's productions, closed Atwell 2005, her three -year degree with a Bachelor of Arts. In the autumn of the same year, the 1.69 m great actress her London stage debut in James Kerr's staging of Aeschylus' tragedy celebrated as Io, Prometheus Bound and received a small part in William Humble TV movie Charles and Camilla - love in the shadow of the crown, in which Laurence Fox and Olivia Poulet the title roles were. 2006 Atwell made ​​with the female lead role in the BBC television miniseries The Line of Beauty attention, in which Saul Dibb directed. In the film adaptation of the award-winning 1980s novel by Alan Hollinghurst they acted as the self- infringing, manic depressive Catherine Fedden from upper middle-class home.

After The Line of Beauty, the young British woman received further involvement in the BBC television films Fear of Fanny, a biopic about the British television presenter Fanny Cradock (1909-1994) and the drama The Ruby in the Smoke, based on the novel by Philip Pullman based. Hayley Atwell In addition, appeared in spring 2006 in Thomas Middleton's 1621 authored tragedy Women Beware Women, which was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre in Stratford- upon- Avon. Directed by Lawrence Boswell took over in the history of wealth, power and pleasures of the role of the beautiful Bianca, a daughter of a wealthy Venetian family, is married to a poor merchant from Florence and the object of desire of the wealthy Duke of Florence (played by Tim Pigott - Smith) become. Although Women Beware Women has not been transferred to London's West End, praised the critics the piece, and Atwell for their graceful and unaffected innocent appearance.

Film career

In the focus of international media, the actress beginning of August 2006 moved when it was announced that it was selected dream for the female lead in Woody Allen's film project Cassandra, which, like his two previous films Match Point (2005) and Scoop - Get the Scoop (2006) in London was born. Previously, she had lost the part of Mary Boleyn alongside Natalie Portman in Justin Chadwick's historical drama The Other Boleyn Girl at the US-American Scarlett Johansson. In Cassandra's Dream, her film debut, which was filmed in the summer of 2006, Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor Atwells were co-stars. Both embodied two brothers from London's working-class background who drift into crime. The theatrical release in 2007 coincided with the drama How About You, in the Atwell held the main role of an unruly Altenpflegerin alongside such renowned plays colleagues like Vanessa Redgrave and Brenda Fricker. End of January 2007, she acted under the direction Nicholas Hytner at London's National Theatre, where she was again in the favor of theater critics. In the Restoration comedy The Man of Mode, from a script by George Etherege, she acted like a PR consultant from Soho to a womanizer (played by Tom Hardy ) will be forfeited.

2008 follow again a collaboration with Hytner at the National Theatre production of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, in the Atwell starred in the title role and was seen on the movie screen as Julia Flyte in the film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel Brideshead Head, in which she acted alongside Matthew Goode and Ben Whishaw. In the same year Atwell again worked with Saul Dibb on the costume drama The Duchess together, in which they acted on the side of heroine Keira Knightley. For the role of Bess Foster which she was nominated for a British Independent Film Award.

2009 was Atwell directed Lindsay Posner in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge at London's Duke of York 's Theatre on the stage. The British newspaper The Guardian praised for her portrayal of Catherine, who matures from orphan to grown woman and she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress. The previous peak in Atwells television career was the leading role of the outcast Count Sergio Mimica - daughter in Gezzans television miniseries The Pillars of the Earth (2010), based upon the historical novel by Ken Follett. The part of Aliena 2011 brought her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award. In the same year she starred in the American action movie Captain America - The First Avenger the female lead role alongside the title character Chris Evans.

Hayley Atwell, who at her theater work through her mezzo-soprano and mimicking dialects proven (including Cockney, Essex, London, American and southern Irish accent), appeared alongside her film and theater work in 2002 in a commercial potato chips brand Pringles. Her hobbies it is one among others, knitting and writing essays and short stories.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2005: Charles and Camilla - love in the shadow of the crown (Whatever Love Means )
  • 2006: The Line of Beauty (Miniseries)
  • 2006: Fear of Fanny
  • 2006: The Ruby in the Smoke
  • 2007: Mansfield Park
  • 2006: How About You
  • 2007: Cassandra's Dream ( Cassandra 's Dream )
  • 2008: Reunion with Brideshead ( Brideshead Revisited )
  • 2008: The Duchess ( The Duchess )
  • 2009: The Prisoner - The Prisoner ( TV Six dividers)
  • 2010: The Pillars of the Earth ( The Pillars of the Earth )
  • 2011: Captain America - The First Avenger
  • 2012: I, Anna
  • 2012: The Sweeney
  • 2012: Restless ( TV two-parter )
  • 2013: Life of Crime ( TV series)
  • 2014: The Return of the First Avenger ( Captain America: The Winter Soldier )

Stage plays

  • 2005: Prometheus Bound ( Prometheus Bound )
  • 2006: Women Beware Women
  • 2007: The Man of Mode
  • 2008: Major Barbara
  • 2009: A View from the Bridge

Awards

  • Laurence Olivier Award 2010: nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for the play A View from the Bridge
  • Golden Globe Awards 2011: nominated in the category Best Actress in a Mini - series or TV movie for The Pillars of the Earth
Io (mythology) Laurence Fox Stratford-upon-Avon West End of London Brideshead Revisited (film) The Duchess (film) Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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