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Rebecca Maria Hall is an English actress born 19 May 1982 in london.

In 2003, Hall won the Ian Charleson Award for her debut stage performance in a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession. 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. She was also nominated for the Leading Actress BAFTA in 2013 for her role as Sylvia Tietjens in BBC Two's Parade's End.


Early life 

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 and her mother, who is American, is of Dutch, Scottish, Sioux, and African American origin.

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, including theatre designer Lucy Hall, veteran TV drama producer Christopher Hall, and Jennifer Caron Hall, a writer and painter.

Hall attended Roedean School, where she became head girl.[4] She studied English Literature at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, before dropping out in 2002 just before her final year. During her time at Cambridge, she appeared in a number of plays and set up a theatre company. She was a member of the Marlowe Society and starred alongside Dan Stevens in several critically acclaimed productions.


Career 

Film and television 


Hall's first role came in 1992, when she appeared as young Sophy in her father's television adaptation of Mary Wesley's The Camomile Lawn. 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,[13] as well as appearing in several other television films including Wide Sargasso Sea and Rubberheart.
Her Hollywood fame grew when she starred in the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, playing one of the title characters, Vicky.[14] Critics praised her performance.[14] 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.[14] She is the female lead role in the British ghost film The Awakening, released in September 2011.


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."[17] She played the role of Sylvia Tietjens in the BBC/HBO/VRT production of Parade's End in 2012. She replaced Jessica Chastain as Maya Hansen in the superhero film Iron Man 3 (2013). In 2013, it was announced that she has signed on to Wally Pfister's directorial debut Transcendence, costarring Johnny Depp.


Stage 

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"[19] and "accomplished",[20] earned her the Ian Charleson Award in 2003.[21]
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,[22] which gained her a second Charleson nomination[23] and starred in the title role of Thea Sharrock's revival of D. H. Lawrence's The Fight for Barbara.[24] 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.[25] 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;[26] The Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles[27] and venues in New Haven, Connecticut, Columbus, Ohio, and the historic Wilbur Theater in Boston.


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,[28] which gave performances with the same cast in Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.[29] In 2010–11, she played Viola in a production of Twelfth Night at London's National Theatre, which her father directed.


Personal life 

During 2003–04, Hall was in a relationship with her As You Like It co-star Freddie Stevenson.

In November 2011, it was confirmed that Hall has been in a relationship with director Sam Mendes "for some time".


Filmography 

Film 
Year Title Role Notes
2006 Starter for 10 Rebecca Epstein
The Prestige Sarah Borden Nominated – Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer
Nominated – London Film Critics Circle Award for British Newcomer of the Year
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona Vicky Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated – Gotham Award for Breakthrough Performance
Nominated – London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year
Frost/Nixon Caroline Cushing Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Official Selection Emily Dickinson Short film
2009 Dorian Gray Emily Wotton
2010 Please Give Rebecca Robert Altman Award
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards for Body of Work
Nominated – Chlotrudis Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast
Nominated – Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress
Nominated – Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast
The Town Claire Keesey National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble
Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Acting Ensemble
Nominated – Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Acting Ensemble
A Bag of Hammers Mel
Everything Must Go Samantha
2011 The Awakening Florence Cathcart Nominated – British Independent Film Award for Best Actress
2012 Lay the Favorite Beth Raymer
2013 Iron Man 3 Maya Hansen
Closed Circuit Claudia Completed
A Promise
2014 Transcendence Evelyn Caster Filming



Television 

Year Title Role
1992 The Camomile Lawn Young Sophie
1993 The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends Lucie
Don't Leave Me This Way Lizzie Neil
2006 Wide Sargasso Sea Antoinette Cosway
2007 Rubberheart Maggie
Joe's Palace Tina
2008 Einstein and Eddington Winifred Eddington
2009 Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 Paula Garland
2012 Parade's End Sylvia Tietjens

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