Hattie Morahan Biography

Fast Facts

• Her performance in "The Seagull" won her an Ian Charleson Award
• Born to an actress and a director, she spent her childhood on film sets, on Broadway and attending parties thrown by Laurence Olivier
• Quote: "For me the most enjoyable bits of a part are always their blind spots and narrowness of thinking and vanity-all the bits which lack objectivity․ The more subjective you can be, the more interesting it is․"
• Quote: "To start with you think you need a five-page scene to get something but then you realize it can be told in one shot, a look and a sound effect․"
• Though she did not stick to the genre, she rose to fame in period dramas, especially by playing Elinor Dashwood in the 2008 mini-series adaptation of "Sense and Sensibility․"
• Director Katie Mitchell has cast her in multiple plays adapted from longer works, "The Idiot," "Iphigenia at Aulis" and "The Seagull․"
• Cited 1959's "North by Northwest" as her favorite film