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Hayley Elizabeth Atwell is an English and American actress. After appearing in various West End productions, Atwell gained popularity for her roles in period dramas, appearing in the films Brideshead Revisited (2008), The Duchess (2008) and the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth (2010); for the latter two, she was nominated for a British Independent Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, respective…
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Born 5 April 1982 · Q234959
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“t remember having directly experienced sexual harassment at work. But says she”
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“thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have. She was always very moved by the power that it had to open your mind. I found it genuinely thrilling.”
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The Guardian: Much Ado About Nothing review – Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell crackle in a party of pink
The Guardian: Hayley Atwell on theatre, Tom Cruise and the tabloids: ‘I’ve reached the point where I’m OK if I’m not liked’
Atwell said she was almost nine months pregnant while shooting one of the fight scenes in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
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Atwell gave birth to their child in 2024.
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The Guardian: A sunset, a helicopter and Hayley Atwell's nan: how Tom Cruise ruined romance
Atwell would again reprise her role as Peggy Carter/Captain Carter in Doctor Strange and The Multiverse of Madness
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“I’ve kicked six stuntmen in the bollocks, hit someone over the back with a lead pipe and launched an iron chair at an assistant director. All completely by accident. When it comes to stunts I have a lot of confidence and little skill.”
Early reviews for Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway revealed Atwell as part of the film's voice cast as Mittens the cat
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Atwell began hosting the podcast series True Spies
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The Guardian: Hayley Atwell: how I fell for a blazing feminist who fascinated Freud
The Guardian: Rosmersholm review – Atwell and Burke are breathtaking in Ibsen masterpiece
Atwell starred opposite Tamara Lawrance in a three-part BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel The Long Song, about a slave on a sugar plantation in 19th-century Jamaica
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In Dry Powder at the Hampstead Theatre and later appeared in Josie Rourke's Measure for Measure at the Donmar Warehouse, opposite Jack Lowden
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Played Evelyn Robin, the wife of the titular character in Disney's live action Winnie-the-Pooh film Christopher Robin directed by Marc Forster and co-starring with Ewan McGregor
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“No, I’ve worked too hard, let me do it!”
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Atwell described feeling "very affected" by both Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, saying there was a "dark underbelly" of xenophobia and misogyny
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Atwell played Cinderella's mother in Disney's live action adaptation of Cinderella directed by Kenneth Branagh
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Atwell starred in BBC Two's adaptation of William Boyd's espionage novel, Restless
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For her work in the revival of The Pride, and again in 2020 for her performance as Rebecca West in Rosmersholm
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Atwell took a three-month course in art history and haiku at the Open University
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Atwell appeared in Channel 4's adaptation of William Boyd's Any Human Heart, and later that year, Ken Follett's miniseries Pillars of the Earth for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination
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In 2010, Atwell lived in a flat in London.
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Atwell lived in a flat in London
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Atwell made her West End debut as Catherine, the adopted niece in a troubled household, in Lindsay Posner's A View From the Bridge
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Also appeared in The Duchess, which earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the British Independent Film Awards
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Weinstein had told Atwell she looked like a "fat pig" on screen and should eat less
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Starred as the protagonist's wife, Bianca, in Women Beware Women at the Royal Shakespeare Company
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Born 1982-04-05.
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