Hattie Morahan

Birth Name:

Hattie Jane Morahan

Birth Place:

Lambeth, London, England, United Kingdom

Profession

Actress

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․"
Director Katie Mitchell has cast her in multiple plays adapted from longer works, "The Idiot," "Iphigenia at Aulis" and "The Seagull․"
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․"
Cited 1959's "North by Northwest" as her favorite film

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