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Sally Hawkins

Actor, ProducerBorn April 27, 1976 (48 years)
Sally Cecilia Hawkins (born 27 April 1976) is an English actress who began her career on stage and then moved into film. She has received several awards including a Golden Globe Award and the Berlin International Film Festival's Silver Bear for Best Actress, with nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Academy Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards.

After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she started her career as a stage actress in productions such as Romeo and Juliet (playing Juliet), Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her first major role was in Mike Leigh's All or Nothing in 2002. She continued working with Leigh, appearing in a supporting role in Vera Drake (2004) and taking the lead in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), for which she won several awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the Silver Bear for Best Actress.

Hawkins appeared in two Woody Allen films, Cassandra's Dream (2007) and Blue Jasmine (2013); for the latter, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to play the lead role in Made in Dagenham (2010), Paddington (2014), Maudie (2016), and Paddington 2 (2017), and appeared in Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). For starring as a mute cleaning woman in the romantic fantasy film The Shape of Water (2017), she earned acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

She has also appeared in stage productions with the Royal Court Theatre in London, and in 2010 made her Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren's Profession. In 2012 she starred in Constellations at the Royal Court Theatre, which later moved to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End. On television, she appeared in the BBC adaptations of Tipping the Velvet (2002) as Zena Blake, and Fingersmith (2005) as Sue Trinder. She also appeared as Anne Elliot in Persuasion (2007), ITV's adaptation of Jane Austen's novel.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Submarine
  • Cassandra's Dream
  • A Brilliant Young Mind
  • All Is Bright
  • Eternal Beauty
  • Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
Known For
  • The Shape of Water
  • Blue Jasmine
  • Godzilla
  • Happy-Go-Lucky
  • Paddington 2
  • Paddington
  • Layer Cake
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters
  • Jane Eyre
  • Maudie
  • Never Let Me Go
  • Submarine
  • Persuasion
  • Made in Dagenham
  • Cassandra's Dream
  • A Brilliant Young Mind
  • Fingersmith
  • Vera Drake
  • The Lost King
  • Desert Flower
  • Spencer
  • A Boy Called Christmas
  • Cordelia
  • The Phantom of the Open

Filmography

2023
Wonka · as Willy's Mother
2023
Kensuke's Kingdom · as Mum (voice)
2022
The Smeds and the Smoos · as Narrator (voice)
2022
Mammals (TV Series) · as Lue
2022
The Lost King · as Philippa Langley
2021
A Boy Called Christmas · as Mother Vodol
2021
Spencer · as Maggie
2021
The Phantom of the Open · as Jean Flitcroft
2019
2019
The Snail and the Whale · as Snail (voice)
2019
Godzilla: King of the Monsters · as Dr. Vivienne Graham
2017
The Shape of Water · as Elisa Esposito
2017
Paddington 2 · as Mary Brown
2016
2016
Maudie · as Maud Lewis
2015
Stick Man · as Stick Lady & Others (voice)
2014
Paddington · as Mary Brown
2014
Godzilla · as Dr. Vivienne Graham
2014
2014
How and Why · as Yvonne Hesselman
2013
The Double · as Receptionist At Ball
2013
The Phone Call · as Heather
2013
2013
Blue Jasmine · as Ginger
2012
Room on the Broom · as Bird (voice)
2012
Great Expectations · as Mrs. Joe
2012
The Hollow Crown (TV Series) · as Eleanor
2012
Honest Trailers (TV Series) · as Willy Wonka's Mother / Mary Brown (archive Footage)
2011
Jane Eyre · as Mrs. Reed
2011
Love Birds · as Holly
2010
Submarine · as Jill Tate
2010
Little Crackers (TV Series) · as Mummy
2010
Never Let Me Go · as Miss Lucy
2010
Made in Dagenham · as Rita O'grady
2010
It's a Wonderful Afterlife · as Linda / Gitali
2009
An Education · as Sarah Goldman
2009
Happy Ever Afters · as Maura
2009
Desert Flower · as Marylin
2008
Happy-Go-Lucky · as Poppy Cross
2007
2007
The Killing Gene · as Elly Carpenter
2007
Persuasion · as Anne Elliot
2006
The Painted Veil · as (credited But Deleted)
2006
Man to Man with Dean Learner (TV Series) · as Documentarienne
2006
HG Wells' War with the World · as Rebecca West
2006
2005
2005
Fingersmith (TV Series) · as Sue Trinder
2005
Buried Alive · as Cast
2004
Vera Drake · as Susan Wells
2004
Layer Cake · as Slasher
2003
The Young Visiters · as Rosalind
2003
2003
Byron · as Mary Shelley
2003
Little Britain (TV Series) · as Cathy
2003
Byron (TV Series) · as Mary Shelley
2002
All or Nothing · as Samantha
2002
Tipping the Velvet (TV Series) · as Zena Blake
2000
Doctors (TV Series) · as Sarah Carne
1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace · as Bystander (uncredited)
1986
Casualty (TV Series) · as Emma Lister

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