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Tuesday 29 May 2012

Hayley Atwell

Hayley Atwell Biography

Date of Birth
5 April 1982, London, England, UK
Birth Name
Hayley Elizabeth Atwell
Height
5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Mini Biography
Born in London, England, Hayley Elizabeth Atwell has dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. An only child, Hayley was named after Hayley Mills. Her parents, Grant and Alison, both motivational speakers, met at a London workshop of Dale Carnegie's self-help bible "How to Win Friends and Influence People". He was born in Missouri and is of part Native-American descent; his Native American name is Star Touches Earth. Her parents divorced when she was age 2. Her father returned to America and Hayley remained with her mother in London, but she spent her summers in Missouri with her father. Hayley's mother saw theater as an important communal experience, so she was introduced to theater from a young age. At age 11, she had memorable trip to see Ralph Fiennes playing Hamlet. She would later work with him on The Duchess (2008).
She went to Sion-Manning Roman Catholic Girl's School in West London where she excelled academically. She took her A-levels at the London Oratory School. She took two years out of her education, traveling with her father and working for a casting director. In 2005, she graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with a degree in Acting. Hayley began her career with parts on a few BBC television productions. Her first big break came in the television miniseries, "The Line of Beauty" (2006). The following year, she got her first film role in How About You... (2007). She followed this with Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream (2007). Her breakthrough role came four years later as British agent Peggy Carter in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).
IMDb Mini Biography By: Kad
Trivia
Studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (2002-2005).
Age 9, she walked over hot coals at a 'Power Into Action’ workshop that she attended with her mother.
As a teenager, she went on anti-vivisection and Free the Dolphins marches.
She became a committed vegetarian, at age 8, after seeing Lloyd Grossman put a live lobster into boiling water.
Her father is a shaman.
Good friends with Emma Thompson.
Personal Quotes
Nude scenes can be very liberating. I feel very human. This is me, with all my little imperfections.
My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.
[on Brideshead Revisited (2008)] What attracted me was I loved the vivid characters that had obviously come from a very rich novel and Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies had put that into the script. The character definitions and the stage directions were very rich and as rich as the dialogue so I felt that there was a hell of a lot of passion behind it. I'm attracted to flawed characters. I think they're really interesting to play. I was really intrigued who this enigmatic Julia was and what was bubbling and going on beneath the surface. So it was probably that.
Where Are They Now
(January 2009) Starring as "Catherine" in Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" with Ken Stott as "Eddie Carbone" at the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End.

Hayley Atwell