Natalie Press

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Natalie Press (2014)

Natalie Press , also Nathalie Press (born August 15, 1980 in London , England ) is a British actress .

biography

Training and first film roles

Natalie Press grew up in the north of London situated County Hertfordshire on. The daughter of a Jewish artist, who worked in a children's theater from the age of six to ten, attended an art college for a year before she got enthusiastic about acting again and took part in several method-acting courses . In late November 2001, Press made her debut on British television in a supporting role when she appeared in the episode Mother Knows Best in the fourth season of the British hospital series Holby City . This was followed a year later in other supporting roles in the British -American cinema production The Gathering and in an episode of the British television sitcom Is Harry on the Boat? (both 2002).

Press became known to a larger audience in 2003 through the lead role in Andrea Arnold's Wasps . In the 26-minute short film, she mimes a single young mother who tries to rekindle a relationship with a former friend at the expense of her four children. While Arnold's work received critical acclaim and won an Oscar for Best Short Film in 2004 (2003 official count) , Press received an Honorable Mention for her play at the 2003 Stockholm Film Festival .

Success with My Summer of Love

The red-haired actress, who also earned her money as an office worker, was able to build on this success in 2004 with the lead role in Paweł Pawlikowski's film My Summer of Love . In the drama, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by the Englishwoman Helen Cross , Press plays the impoverished 16-year-old orphan Mona from the provinces, who enters into a relationship with the wealthy and educated Tamsin of the same age (played by Emily Blunt ). Hailed by the New York Times as a triumph over mood and implication , the film won critical acclaim and won the 2005 British Academy Film Award for best British cinema production of the year. The focus was also on Natalie Press, whose performance as a rough proletarian led to comparisons in the international press with the young Sissy Spacek ( Badlands , 1973; Carrie - Des Satan's youngest daughter , 1976) or Tilda Swinton . For her first leading role in a cinema, the 1.55 m tall actress received, among other things, the London Film Critics' Prize for the best young British actress of the year and a nomination for the European Film Prize 2005 for best actress.

Known to an international audience through the success of My Summer of Love , Natalie Press resisted the call of Hollywood and several offers for short films that would have pegged her to earlier role types. Her film partner Emily Blunt, on the other hand, used the international attention and started a successful Hollywood career that continues to this day. Press appeared in the following two years mainly in supporting roles in British television films and series and was back in European cinema in 2005 with small appearances in Martha Fienne's drama Chromophobia and Roselyne Bosch's science fiction thriller Animal . Also in 2005 followed the recurring role of Caddy Turveydrop in the award-winning British television series Bleak House , in which the press acted alongside Gillian Anderson , Charles Dance and Nathaniel Parker . In 2006 she played leading and supporting roles in four cinema productions, including her renewed collaboration with Andrea Arnold on the war drama Red Road , which won an award at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival in 2006, and Josh Appignanesi's low-budget productions Song of Songs and Ex Memoria . A collaboration between the press and the director Angela Workman in the period drama Brontë in which it alongside Michelle Williams and Emily Barclay , the Bronte country should embody, never materialized.

In addition to her work in film and television, Natalie Press also acted in the theater. She appeared in Clare Pollard's play Weather at the Royal Court Theater in the fall of 2004, directed by Ramin Gray . In contemporary tragic comedy, she and Helen Schlesinger and Jonathan Coy gave a dysfunctional British middle-class family a face.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Commons : Natalie Press  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Review by AO Scott in the New York Times, June 17, 2005
  2. ↑ cf. Review by AO Scott in the New York Times, June 17, 2005
  3. ^ Film review by Hans-Jörg Rother at tagesspiegel.de ( Memento from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ cf. Interview with Natalie Press at critic.de
personal data
SURNAME Press, Natalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Press, Nathalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK