Figure timeline
Rebecca Maria Hall is an English actress and filmmaker. She made her first onscreen appearance at the age of 10 in the 1992 television adaptation of The Camomile Lawn, directed by her father, Peter Hall. Her professional stage debut came in her father's 2002 production of Mrs. Warren's Profession, which earned her an Ian Charleson Award. In 2006, following her film debut in Starter for 10, Hall go…
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
entertainment · English actress and filmmaker (born 1982) · actor · stage actor · television actor · film actor · film director · screenwriter · film producer · filmmaker · also Rebecca Hall, Rebecca Maria Hall, Hall
Born 3 May 1982 · Q230534
43 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
3 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
“She came from working-class Detroit, no education so to speak, had a freakily large voice, won a bunch of competitions, ran off at 18, and by 23 she was an international opera singer.”
Public attention spiked: 16,147 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 3,918, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Added some citations to awards section
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Guardian: The Listeners review – Rebecca Hall’s hauntingly delicate drama will paralyse you with dread
The Guardian: TV tonight: Rebecca Hall’s intriguing drama about a strange noise
The Guardian: ‘I’ve had a wild, chaotic, beautiful life’: Rebecca Hall on race, regrets and learning to be herself
The Guardian: Rebecca Hall: I regret apologising for working with Woody Allen
Saying "I don’t talk to him any more, but I don’t think that [actors] should be the ones who are doing judge and jury on this
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Black Reel Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original for Passing (2022).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded London Critics’ Circle Film Awards for Passing (2022).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Guardian: Resurrection review – Rebecca Hall rises above misfiring thriller
The Guardian: Degrees of separation: what connects Rebecca Hall to Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain?
The Guardian: Passing review – life is anything but black and white in Rebecca Hall’s smart period drama
The Guardian: Passing review – Rebecca Hall’s stylish and subtle study of racial identity
Made her feature directorial debut with the period drama Passing, which she also wrote and co-produced, adapted from Nella Larsen's 1929 novel
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hall starred in and co-executive produced the well-reviewed horror-thriller The Night House
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hall provided English dubbing for the character Mother in Mirai
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Portrayed Elizabeth Holloway Marston, a psychologist who inspired the character of Wonder Woman, in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hall was praised by critics for her portrayal of news reporter Christine Chubbuck in the biographical drama Christine
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hall starred in the romantic comedy Tumbledown and Joel Edgerton's directorial debut The Gift
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hall met actor Morgan Spector while co-starring in a Broadway production
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Starred opposite Johnny Depp in Wally Pfister's directorial debut Transcendence (2014)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her performance in BBC Two's Parade's End
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
In Sophie Treadwell's expressionist play Machinal
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hall replaced Jessica Chastain as Maya Hansen in the superhero film Iron Man 3
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Took on the role of Beth Raymer in the comedy-drama film Lay the Favorite, based on Raymer's memoir of the same title
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award for Please Give (2011).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded San Diego Film Critics Society Awards for Red Riding: 1974 (2010).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for Red Riding: 1974 (2010).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast for Synecdoche, New York (2008).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
For which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
In addition to appearing in several other television films, including Wide Sargasso Sea and Rubberheart
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Following her film debut in Starter for 10, Hall got her breakthrough role in Christopher Nolan's thriller film The Prestige
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
As Rebecca Epstein in the film adaptation of David Nicholls's Starter for Ten
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hall reprised the role of Rosalind in a touring production of As You Like It, again under the direction of her father
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hall appeared in three plays for the Peter Hall Company at the Theatre Royal Bath, two of which her father directed: Man and Superman in which she played Ann, and Galileo's Daughter in which she played Sister Maria Celes
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hall's father celebrated 50 years as a theatre director by staging a season of five plays at the Theatre Royal in Bath, Somerset
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
With venues at the Shubert Theater New Haven, Connecticut, Columbus, Ohio, and the Wilbur Theater in Boston
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Awarded Ian Charleson Awards for Mrs. Warren's Profession (2002).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
When she starred as Vivie in her father's production of Mrs
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
When at the age of nine she appeared as young Sophy in her father's television adaptation of Mary Wesley's The Camomile Lawn
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1982-05-03.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War”
“The Necessity and Grandeur of the International Ideal”
Connections