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Rebecca Hall
Hall at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in 2010
Born	Rebecca Maria Hall (1982-05-19) 19 May 1982 (age 42) London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1992–present
Parents	Peter Hall Maria Ewing

Rebecca Maria Hall (born 19 May 1982) is an English actress.

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 and Frost/Nixon.

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.

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 Eurasian English and her Eurasian

mother is of Dutch, Scottish and African origin. Her parents separated when she was still young, and they divorced in

1990. 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. She studied English Literature at [[St Catharine's College,

Cambridge|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 [[Starter for 10

(film)|film adaptation]] of David Nicholls's [[Starter for Ten

(novel)|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, 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.

Critics praised her performance. Hall was nominated for a

Golden Globe for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture

Musical or Comedy|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

(2010 film)|The Town]] with Ben Affleck and Blake Lively.

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." She played the role of Sylvia Tietjens in the BBC/HBO/VRT production

of Parade's End in 2012. The same year she replaced

Jessica Chastain as Maya Hansen in the upcoming superhero film [[Iron

Man 3]]. 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" and

"accomplished", earned her the Ian Charleson Award in 2003.

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, which gained her a second Charleson

nomination and starred in the title role

of Thea Sharrock's revival of D. H. Lawrence's The Fight for Barbara. 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. 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; The Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles 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, which gave

performances with the same cast in Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Singapore,

Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2010–

11, she played Viola in a production of Twelfth Night at London's [[Royal

National Theatre|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

Television

References

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External links

• Rebecca Hall at IMDb
• Rebecca Hall at the TCM Movie Database
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