Kierston Wareing

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Kierston Faye Wareing (born January 7, 1976 in Leigh-on-Sea , Essex ) is an English actress . Since the late 2000s she has appeared in over 20 film and television productions. She gained international fame with her first leading role in Ken Loach's film It's a Free World (2007).

Life

Kierston Wareing was born as Faye Kierston Wareing , daughter of a caregiver in a retirement home and the owner of an advertising agency. She later officially changed her first name. She grew up in Leigh-on-Sea with a brother who works for her father. Wareing attended the local St. Bernard's Convent School in Westcliff , and later Havering College in Essex, which she graduated from. She had her first ambitions to take up the acting profession at the age of seven through the American actress Jodie Foster . After taking private acting lessons, she moved to New York after completing her schooling , where the Englishwoman studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York from 1997 to 2000 . During her stay in the United States, she made repeated appearances in independent films and music videos.

Upon returning home, Wareing struggled to find an acting agent to sign her. She was just as seldom able to get roles in film and television productions or commercials. She didn't get more than two roles a year, including an extra role on the British series EastEnders and an appearance in music videos for Oasis and Michelle McManus . After wareing had unsuccessfully pursued her career for nearly ten years, she decided to quit acting. She began training as a secretary when she was discovered by acclaimed British film director Ken Loach . Loach entrusted her with the female lead in his 2007 film It's a Free World , which focuses on the 30-year-old Londoner Angie. The single mother did not tolerate the sexual harassment of her boss and lost her job. Looking back on countless jobs and layoffs, she and a friend decide to set up an agency for migrant workers. The company is successful. The young woman soon suppresses her scruples and exploits the numerous immigrants from Eastern Europe just as the bosses did with her before.

It's a Free World celebrated its world premiere at the 64th Venice Film Festival , where it was represented in the competition for the Golden Lion . Her film debut brought Wareing the recognition of the critics who she wrote for Loach's "Homage to the energy and ambition of a pragmatic survivor" together with the Australian Oscar winner Cate Blanchett ( I'm Not There ), the French Hafsia Herzi ( couscous with Fisch ) and the Chinese Tang Wei ( danger and desire ) acted as one of the favorites for the Coppa Volpi , the award for the best actress at the film festival. However, the Actor Award was given to Blanchett. Months later, Wareing received two nominations at the British Independent Film Awards . As best leading actress , however, she was left behind against Oscar-nominated Judi Dench ( Diary of a Scandal ), as best young actor against Sam Riley ( Control ).

After working with Ken Loach, Wareing appeared in an episode of the English crime series Hautnah - Die Methode Hill in the same year and received a supporting role in Julian Gilbey's cinema production Rise of the Footsoldier . Also in 2007, the Englishwoman and other actors were counted among the Stars of Tomorrow by the British film magazine Screen International . Two years later, she received another British Independent Film Award nomination for the supporting role of a dissolute single mother in Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank .

Kierston Wareing, who counts Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot among her role models, lives in the city of her birth.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2007: It's a Free World ( It's a Free World ... )
  • 2007: Rise of the Footsoldier
  • 2008: Trial & Retribution XVII: Conviction (TV)
  • 2008: Leaving (short film)
  • 2009: Il caso dell'infedele Klara
  • 2009: Fish Tank
  • 2009: The Take - Two Decades in the Mafia ( The Take , miniseries)
  • 2010: Five Daughters (TV series, three episodes)
  • 2010: Basement
  • 2010: Bonded by Blood
  • 2011: The Runaway (TV series, six episodes)
  • 2011: The Shadow Line (TV series, seven episodes)
  • 2011: Luther (TV series, four episodes)
  • 2011: The Holding
  • 2011: Four
  • 2011: Top Boy (TV series, four episodes)
  • 2012: Inside Men (TV series, four episodes)
  • 2012: Last Hitman - 24 Hours in Hell (The Liability)
  • 2012-2014: EastEnders (TV series, 127 episodes)
  • 2013: The Bible ( The Bible , miniseries, one episode)
  • 2016: Do Not Disturb (TV)
  • 2016: The Habit of Beauty
  • 2016: 100 Streets
  • 2017: Cardboard Gangsters
  • 2018: The End of the F *** ing World (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2018: Strike (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2018: Trust (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2018: We the Kings
  • 2018: I Love My Mum
  • 2019: Avengement

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Kierston Faye Wareing . In: Debrett's People of Today . Debrett's Peerage Ltd., 2008 (accessed via Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich .: Gale, 2009)
  2. ↑ a b c d cf. West, Naomi: Kierston Wareing: lighting-up time at telegraph.co.uk, September 15, 2007 (accessed June 26, 2009)
  3. ↑ cf. Rothe, Marcus: A spark of happiness despite conflict and war . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, September 6, 2007, Culture, p. 18
  4. ↑ cf. Koppold, Rupert: group picture with murderer . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, September 8, 2007, Culture, p. 33
  5. ↑ cf. Suspense avant la remise du 64e Lion d'or à Venise, Kechiche grand favori (PAPIER GENERAL) , Agence France-Presse, 8 September 2007
personal data
SURNAME Wareing, Kierston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wareing, Kierston Faye (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH 7th January 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Leigh-on-Sea , Essex