Romola Garai

At 41 years old, Romola Garai has this physical status:

Romola Sadie Garai (born 6 August 1982) is a British film and television actress.

Emma, The Hour and the White, as well as Amazing Grace, Atonement, and Glorious 39.

She has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award twice and once for a BAFTA award.

Early life

Garai was born in Hong Kong to British parents. Her father's family is Jewish. Janet A.'s mother, Janet A. Romola and her three siblings were brought up by (née Brown). Adrian Earl Garcai (born 1945) is a bank manager. Bernhard "Bert" Garai, an immigrant from Hungary, founded the Keystone Press Agency, a photographic studio and archive in London in the early 20th century.

Garai is the third of four siblings. When she was five, her family migrated to Singapore and then returned to Wiltshire in England when she was eight years old. She attended Stonar School in Wiltshire as a child and then moved to London to complete her A-levels. She appeared in school performances and served with the National Youth Theatre until the age of 18, when she decided to perform Dame Judi Dench's character in the BBC Films/HBO co-production for television, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells.

She studied English literature at Queen Mary University of London before transferring and graduating with a first-class degree from the Open University following her A-levels. She had intended to only focus on her studies, but then she began working full-time during the summer break.

Personal life

Garai's great-grandfather moved from Budapest to New York in the 1910s with his English-born wife, then migrated to London, where he founded the Keystone Press Agency. During the Holocaust in Hungary, the majority of Romola's Jewish relatives were killed.

Garai lives in London. She earned a degree in English literature from the Open University in 2009. "It's too simplistic to say that people start to believe what's been published about them," she guards her personal life. However, what happens is that you become a certain way to please people, to be approved of you, to change yourself so that you become the best possible version of yourself for people who don't know you. And I agree that it is a terrible, perplexing thing." "I'd rather go into an interview and be mocked, and have inflammatory things written about me," she says rather than have a glowing, glowing paper that is in no way a representation of who I am."

Garai loves travelling and cooking, even calling it "therapeutic." "Being the outsider for a period of time changes you for the better." She has visited Hong Kong, Malaysia, Italy, Austria, Morocco, Switzerland, and the United States. It shakes up your comfort level. To integrate other people's culture, psychology, and language, which the British are notorious for doing."

She gave birth to a daughter in March 2013 and then married British actor Sam Hoare the following year. They have since had their second child.

Garai is a feminist who has criticized the film industry for its gender stereotypes.

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Acting career

Garai's first professional acting role was in the 2000 BBC-HBO TV film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, in which she portrayed Judi Dench's role as a young woman. Attachments (2000-2002), then a BBC television series Attachments (2000–2002).

Nicholas Nickleby was Garai's first big film role. In the well-reviewed film, Kate Nickleby played a supporting role. The National Board of Review had named the cast members Best Ensemble. She appeared in 2003's I Capture the Castle as a 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain. The British Independent Film Awards' Most Promising Newcomer award went to her for her appearances.

Havana Nights (2004) received mixed reviews. The Vanity Fair in 2004 was announced later, in which she played Amelia Sedley. The film was directed by Mira Nair and co-starring Reese Witherspoon, Jim Broadbent, and James Purefoy. Mixed reviews were given to the film.

Garai received another BIFA nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Siobhan in the independent film Inside I'm Dancing. The London Film Critics Circle has lauded her for her role as the British Supporting Actress of the Year. In 2005, she appeared in The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant, a two-part television drama. Though critics applauded the film as a "pleasing old-fashioned journey," it was her role that earned her two awards: Best Lead Actress in Television from the Australian Film Institute and Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series from the Logie Awards, according to critics. "Sheilai, a tireless performer, had an instinctive knowledge of the subtle difference between overachieving and overacting," the observer noted.

As Celia, she appears in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of As You Like It (2006). The film had been seen in several European theaters before being broadcast on HBO cable television in the United States in 2007. It opened in Mexico in 2009.

She appeared in the biographical drama film Amazing Grace, directed by Michael Apted and co-starring Ioan Gruffudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Michael Gambon. William Wilberforce, a pioneer of the movement to abolish the slave trade, was the subject of the film. Barbara Spooner, Wilberforce's wife, appeared in Garai's film. The film received mostly favorable feedback.

Garai appeared in François Ozon's Angel in 2007. For her role in the film, the Independent named her one of the year's finest actresses. Garai was also nominated for the Prix Lumiere (the French equivalent of the Golden Globes), making her the first British actress to be nominated for the award.

She appeared in Atonement, an Oscar-nominated film, as the 18-year-old Briony Tallis. Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Vanessa Redgrave, and Brenda Blethyn co-starred the film and received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Garai received a Best Actress award from the Evening Standard British Film Awards for her role. She appeared in two Royal Shakespeare Company productions, including Cordelia in King Lear and Nina in The Seagull, alongside Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Sylvester McCoy, Jonathan Hyde, and William Gaunt. The tour, which toured the world, came to a conclusion in the New London Theatre, where it came to a close in January 2008. Miss Garai's performance earned rave reviews, particularly as Nina in The Seagull: The Independent called her a "woman on the edge of fame," while This is London's description of her performance was "distinguished by the illuminating, psychological insights of her role." In a televised version of King Lear, she reprised her role as Cordelia.

She appeared in the film The Other Man in 2008, alongside Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, and Antonio Banderas. Garai appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's World War II thriller Glorious 39, alongside Julie Christie, Jenny Agutter, Bill Nighy, Christopher Lee, and Eddie Redmayne. At the Toronto International Film Festival, the film made its world premiere.

She appeared in a television adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, a four-hour miniseries that premiered on BBC One in October 2009, co-starring Jonny Lee Miller and Sir Michael Gambon. Garai was nominated for a Golden Globe for her appearance. During January and February 2010, Emma appeared on American television as part of PBS' Masterpiece Classic anthology collection, which is also broadcast in most American markets.

The Sunday Times Magazine listed her as one of Britain's rising stars alongside Matthew Goode, Andrea Riseborough, Hugh Dancy, Eddie Redmayne, and others. In January of this year, she travelled to No Man's Land for the UNHCR, highlighting the plight of 800 Palestinian refugees living in the Al-Tanaf refugee camp. "My trip to a refugee camp in Syria destroyed any hope that the horrors of Iraq would end, or that we are doing enough to assist its victims," Garai says. Garai has been praised by her Glorious 39 director Stephen Poliakoff as "the next Kate Winslet" and someone who will "dominate British cinema" in the future.

Garai appeared in the four-part BBC drama The Crimson Petal and the White, based on Michel Faber's book. At the 2012 BAFTA awards for Best Actress, she was nominated for Best Actress. She appeared on Bel Rowley in the television drama The Hour in 2011, partnering Dominic West and Ben Whishaw for which she was a Golden Globe winner. Becky appeared in the lead role in the stage play The Village Bike at the Royal Court later that year, a role she lauded.

In Lone Scherfig's One Day, Garai appeared alongside actress Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess. In the British film Junkhearts, she appeared as a heroin-addicted single mother alongside Eddie Marsan and Tom Sturridge. In the second season of The Hour, which aired from 14 November to 13 December 2012, Bel Rowley reprised her role as Bel Rowley. In 2013, she appeared in the sci-fi film The Last Days on Mars. Isabella's appearance in Measure for Measure at the Young Vic in 2015 was 'astonishing,'weaponically impassioned, and 'thrilling.' She appeared in Suffragette written by Abi Morgan and was a leading role in the 90-minute drama Churchill's Secret opposite Michael Gambon and Lindsay Duncan for ITV this year.

Garai's most recent Radio Drama contribution to BBC Radio 4 includes The Stone Tape adapted by Peter Strickland and the lead in three of the conspiracy thriller series Tracks by Matthew Broughton. Jenny, the mother of a seemingly ordinary 16-year-old schoolboy with psychopathic tendencies, appeared in Channel 4's Born to Kill in 2017. Sarah Churchill appeared in the London premiere of Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne from June to September 2017. In BBC One's adaptation of the period thriller book The Miniaturist, Garai appeared as Marin Brandt. Garai appeared in Ella Hickson's play The Writer at the Almeida Theatre in London from 14 April to May 2018.

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