Hayley Atwell

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Hayley Atwell at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International

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 the London borough of Notting Hill . Her parents, an American photographer and an English real estate agent, separated when she was two years old. Atwell has dual citizenship from the United States and the United Kingdom through her two parents. Atwell attended the London Oratory School in Fulham and received places in philosophy and theology at Oxford . However, she did not take up the opportunity to study and instead traveled through Europe for two years before returning to London and working on an acting career with casting director Jeremy Zimmerman. Hayley Atwell began her acting studies in 2002 at the renowned London Guildhall School of Music and Drama , where well-known mimes such as Eileen Atkins , Honor Blackman and Daniel Craig trained. After interpreting the title role in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and the female lead roles in the Shakespeare comedies Troilus and Cressida and Ein Wintermärchen , Atwell completed her three-year degree in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts. In the autumn of the same year, the 1.69 m tall actress made her London theatrical debut as Io in James Kerr's production of Aeschylus ' tragedy The Fettered Prometheus and received a small part in William Humble's television film Charles and Camilla - Love in the Shadow of the Crown , in which Laurence Fox and Olivia Poulet took the title roles. In 2006, Atwell drew attention to herself with the female lead in the BBC television multi-part series The Line of Beauty , which was directed by Saul Dibb . In the film adaptation of the award-winning 1980s novel by Alan Hollinghurst , she acted as the self-injurious, manic-depressive Catherine Fedden from an upper-class family .

After The Line of Beauty , the young Briton received further engagements 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 , which is based on the novel of the same name by Philip Pullman based. In addition, Hayley Atwell appeared in the spring of 2006 in Thomas Middleton's 1621 tragedy Women Beware Women , which was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon . Directed by Lawrence Boswell, she took on the role of the beautiful Bianca, a daughter of a wealthy Venetian family, in the story of wealth, power and lust, who is married to a poor merchant from Florence and becomes the object of the rich Duke of Florence's desire (played by Tim Pigott-Smith ) advanced. Although Women Beware Women was not moved to London's West End , the critics praised the piece, as did Atwell for its graceful and unsophisticated innocent demeanor.

Film career

The actress moved into the focus of international media in early August 2006 when it became known that she had been selected for the female lead in Woody Allen's film project Cassandra's Dream , which like his two previous films Match Point (2005) and Scoop (2006) in London was born. She had previously lost the role of Mary Boleyn alongside Natalie Portman in Justin Chadwick's historical drama The Other Boleyn Girl to the American Scarlett Johansson . In Cassandra's film debut, which was shot in the summer of 2006, Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor were Atwell's film partners. Both embodied two brothers from the London working class who were drifting into crime. The theatrical release in 2007 coincided with that of the drama How About You , in which Atwell played the leading role of a recalcitrant geriatric nurse alongside renowned actresses like Vanessa Redgrave and Brenda Fricker . At the end of January 2007 she acted under the direction of Nicholas Hytner at the National Theater in London, where she was once again in the favor of theater critics. In the restoration comedy The Man of Mode , based on a script by George Etherege , she played a PR consultant from Soho who falls for a womanizer (played by Tom Hardy ).

2008 Following a renewed collaboration with Hytner at the National Theater production of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara , took over the title role in the Atwell and was on the movie screen as Julia Flyte in the film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel Brideshead Head to see in who acted alongside Matthew Goode and Ben Whishaw . In the same year Atwell worked again with Saul Dibb on the costume film The Duchess , in which she acted on the side of the heroine Keira Knightley . She received a nomination for the British Independent Film Award for the role of Bess Foster .

In 2009 Atwell appeared in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, directed by Lindsay Posners, at London's Duke of York's Theater . The British daily The Guardian praised her for her portrayal of Catherine, who matures from orphan to adult woman, and she received a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress . The high point in Atwell's television career so far was the lead role of the exiled count's daughter in Sergio Mimica-Gezzan's multi-part television series The Pillars of the Earth (2010), based on the eponymous historical novel by Ken Follett . The part of Aliena earned her a 2011 Golden Globe Award nomination . In the same year she played in the American action film Captain America - The First Avenger the female lead as agent Peggy Carter alongside the title character Chris Evans . She later played the role of Peggy Carter in guest appearances on the television series Marvel's Agents of SHIELD and from 2015 to 2016 as the main character in the series Marvel's Agent Carter .

Hayley Atwell, who proved herself in her theatrical work with her mezzo-soprano and the imitation of dialects (including Cockney, Essex, London, American and Southern Irish accents), appeared next to her film and theater work in a 2002 commercial for the potato chips brand Pringles . Her hobbies include knitting and writing essays and short stories.

Filmography (selection)

Atwell at the Toronto International Film Festival (2007)

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
  • 2011: The Faith Machine
  • 2013: The Pride

Awards

  • Laurence Olivier Award 2010: nominated in the category Best Supporting Actress for the play A View from the Bridge
  • Golden Globe Awards 2011 : nominated for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie for The Pillars of the Earth
  • Laurence Olivier Award 2014: nominated in the category Best Actress for the play The Pride
  • 2014 Saturn Awards : Nominated for Best Actress in a Television Role category for starring in Marvel's Agent Carter

Web links

Commons : Hayley Atwell  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Critique of Women Beware Women . In: thestage.co.uk. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
  2. Ramaswamy, Chitra: Starlet vs. Scarlett . In: Scotland on Sunday, March 11, 2007, p. 9
  3. ^ Hoggard, Liz: Meet the Mac pack . In: Sunday Review, June 10, 2007
  4. ^ Brown, Georgia: The oldest swingers in town are as cool as ever… . In: Mail on Sunday (London), February 11, 2007, FB 04, p. 79
  5. ^ Theater Choice . In: The Sunday Telegraph (United Kingdom), February 25, 2007
  6. When you're in with the in-crowd . In: Independent Extra, January 29, 2007, Extra, p. 20
  7. Kay, Richard: A scoop! Hayley is a brideshead star . In: Daily Mail (London), March 13, 2007, p. 41
  8. Atwell joins Jarrold's 'Brideshead' cast. In: The Hollywood Reporter. March 14, 2007, archived from the original on April 30, 2007 ; accessed on April 13, 2016 (English).
  9. cf. Billington, Michael: Bravura performance with limited view of Brooklyn . In: The Guardian, February 6, 2009, p. 44
  10. Hayley Atwell. Guildhall School of Music & Drama, archived from the original on January 11, 2009 ; accessed on April 13, 2016 (English).
  11. Catherine Fedden (played by Hayley Atwell). BBC , May 2006, accessed December 14, 2010 .