Rebecca Hall



Rebecca Maria Hall (born 19 May 1982)[1]  is an English actress. In 2003, she won the Ian Charleson Award for her debut stage performance in a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession.[2] She has appeared in the films The Prestige, Vicky Cristina Barcelona (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe), The Town, Frost/Nixon, and Iron Man 3.

In June 2010, Hall won the Supporting Actress BAFTA for her portrayal of Paula Garland in the 2009 Channel 4 production Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974.[3]  She was also nominated for the Leading Actress BAFTA in 2013 for her role as Sylvia Tietjens in BBC Two's Parade's End.



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[hide]  *1 Early life  ==Early life[edit] == Hall was born in London, UK, the daughter of Peter Hall, a stage director and founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Maria Ewing, an opera singer. Her father is English. Her mother, who is American, is of Dutch, Scottish, Sioux, and African American origin.[4] [5] [6] [7]  Her parents separated when she was still young, and they divorced in 1990.[4]  She has a half-brother, Edward Hall, who is a theatre director, and four other half-siblings,[4]  including theatre designer Lucy Hall, veteran TV drama producer Christopher Hall, and Jennifer Caron Hall, a writer and painter.[citation needed]
 * 2 Career
 * 2.1 Film and television
 * 2.2 Stage
 * 3 Personal life
 * 4 Filmography
 * 4.1 Film
 * 4.2 Television
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">Hall attended Roedean School, where she became head girl.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cbl_4-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  She studied English Literature at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, before dropping out in 2002 just before her final year.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cbl_4-4" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  During her time at Cambridge, she appeared in a number of plays and set up a theatre company.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-prestigenotes_10-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  She was a member of the Marlowe Society and starred alongside Dan Stevens in several critically acclaimed productions.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12] ==Career<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ===Film and television<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Although she appeared in a play (called The Breast of a Woman) while studying English at Cambridge University,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]  her first professional role came in 1992, when she appeared as young Sophy in her father's television adaptation ofMary Wesley's The Camomile Lawn at the age of 10.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]

Hall at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival<p style="line-height:1.5em;">Hall's feature film debut came in 2006 as Rebecca Epstein in the film adaptation of David Nicholls's Starter for Ten. She got her breakthrough with the role of Sarah Borden in Christopher Nolan's film The Prestige. She then appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's Joe's Palace in 2007,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-grant_15-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  as well as appearing in several other television films including Wide Sargasso Sea andRubberheart.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">Her Hollywood fame grew when she starred in the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, playing one of the title characters, Vicky.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GQ_16-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]  Critics praised her performance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GQ_16-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]  Hall was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. She also appeared in Frost/Nixon in 2008 as the girlfriend of Michael Sheen's David Frost. Hall was cast with Ben Barnes in the film Dorian Gray in 2009. Hall appeared in Please Give with Catherine Keener and Amanda Peet and The Town with Ben Affleck and Blake Lively.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GQ_16-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]  She is the female lead role in the British ghost film The Awakening, released in September 2011.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]

Hall at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival<p style="line-height:1.5em;">She has the role of Beth Raymer, in the 2012 film Lay the Favourite, in which one review commented that she "plays Raymer as an endearing force of nature who somehow manages to survive in a dangerous world through sheer force of character."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19]  She played the role of Sylvia Tietjens in the BBC/HBO/VRT production of Parade's End in 2012 opposite Benedict Cumberbatch. She replaced Jessica Chastain as Maya Hansen in the superhero film Iron Man 3 (2013). She also starred as Claudia Simmons Howe in the thriller Closed Circuit (2013). In 2013, it was announced that she has signed on to Wally Pfister's directorial debut Transcendence, costarring Johnny Depp.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">In October 2013, she was engaged in promoting her latest film, the espionage thriller Closed Circuit, in which one commentator described her as 'good...better than [co-star] Eric Bana.'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21] ===Stage<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Hall's professional stage debut came in 2002 when she starred as Vivie in her father's production of Mrs Warren's Profession at the Strand Theatre in London. Her performance, described as "admirable"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-billington_22-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]  and "accomplished",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-loveridge_23-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23]  earned her the Ian Charleson Award in 2003.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[24]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">In 2003, Hall's father celebrated fifty years as a theatre director by staging a season of five plays at the Theatre Royal in Bath, Somerset. Hall starred in two of these plays; she appeared as Rosalind in her father's production of As You Like It,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[25]  which gained her a second Charleson nomination<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26]  and starred in the title role of Thea Sharrock's revival of D. H. Lawrence's The Fight for Barbara.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]  In 2004, Hall appeared in three plays for the Peter Hall Company at the Theatre Royal, two of which her father directed, namely Man and Superman in which she played Ann, and Galileo's Daughter in which she played Sister Maria Celeste. The third, Molière's Don Juan, in which she played the part of Elvira, was directed by Sharrock.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-stevenson_28-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28]  In 2005, Hall reprised the role of Rosalind in a touring production of As You Like It, again under the direction of her father. This tour took in the following venues: The Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames; The Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York; The Curran Theatre at San Francisco;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29]  The Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[30]  and venues in New Haven, Connecticut, Columbus, Ohio, and the historic Wilbur Theater in Boston.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">In 2008–09, she appeared in Sam Mendes's first instalment of the Bridge Project, as Hermione in The Winter's Tale and Varya in The Cherry Orchard,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[31]  which gave performances with the same cast in Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[32]  In 2010–11, she played Viola in a production of Twelfth Night at London's National Theatre, which her father directed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[33]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">In May 2013, it was announced that Hall is set to make her Broadway debut in Sophie Treadwell's expressionist play Machinal. Roundabout's production, directed by Lyndsey Turner, will begin previews on December 20, 2013, with the official opening set for January 16, 2014 at the American Airlines Theatre in New York.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[34] ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == <p style="line-height:1.5em;">During 2003–04, Hall was in a relationship with her As You Like It co-star Freddie Stevenson.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-stevenson_28-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">In November 2011, it was confirmed that Hall has been in a relationship with director Sam Mendes "for some time".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">Hall holds dual citizenship for the UK and the US.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[36] ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ===Film<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ===Television<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ===