Sally Hawkins

Sally Hawkins is a British actress. Her performance as Poppy in director Mike Leigh’s film Happy-Go-Lucky won her several international awards, including the Silver Berlin Bear of the Berlin International Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1020089/filmoyear http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1020089/awards Hawkins worked with Leigh for the third time in Happy-Go-Lucky following All Or Nothing in 2001 and Vera Drake in 2004.http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/apr/11/1

Sally Hawkins is the daughter of Jacqui and Colin Hawkins who are both authors and illustrators of children’s books. Her passion for visual arts and theater constituted an important part of her childhood. Hawkins thought at one time that she might follow the footsteps of her parents by pursuing a career in visual arts.http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/apr/11/1 After graduating from James Allen’s Girls’ School in 1994, Hawkins chose to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Since then, she has remained committed to acting.http://www.sally-hawkins.com/about-sally/biography/

Hawkins started her acting career in theater in 1998. Before her first cooperation with Mike Leigh in All Or Nothing, Hawkins also made a couple of TV appearances.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1020089/filmoyear The next five years saw more of Hawkins in TV dramas with significant roles, including the BBC serials Fingersmith and Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky as well as ITV’s film of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/sally-hawkins/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/apr/11/1 Her movie roles in the same period were not as conspicuous. Hawkins filmed Leigh’s Vera Drake, John Curran’s The Painted Veil and Woody Allen’s Cassandra's Dream among others before the award-winning film Happy-Go-Lucky brought her a new level of attention and fame.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7619843/Sally-Hawkins-interview.html Hawkins has mainly focused in films since 2008 although she made her Broadway debut in September 2010 in George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession.http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/aat/

• 1998: Accidental Death of An Anarchist (Theater)

• 1998: Romeo & Juliet (Theater)

• 1999: The Cherry Orchard (Theater)

• 2000: Much Ado About Nothing (Theater)

• 2001: Misconceptions (Theater)

• 2002: All Or Nothing (Film)

• 2003: The Young Visiters (TV)

• 2003: Bunk Bed Boys (TV)

• 2003: Promoted To Glory (TV)

• 2004: Vera Drake (Film)

• 2004: Country Music (Theater)

• 2004: Layer Cake (Film)

• 2005: House of Bernarda Alba (Theater)

• 2005: Fingersmith (TV)

• 2005: Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky (TV)

• 2006: The Winterling (Theater)

• 2006: The Painted Veil (Film)

• 2006: Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole In My Heart (TV)

• 2006: HG Wells – War with the World (TV)

• 2007: Waz (Film)

• 2007: Persuasion (TV)

• 2007: Cassandra’s Dream (Film)

• 2008: Happy-Go-Lucky (Film)

• 2009: An Education (Film)

• 2009: Desert Flower (Film)

• 2009: Happy Ever Afters (Film)

• 2010: It’s a Wonderful Afterlife (Film)

• 2010: Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Theater)http://www.sally-hawkins.com/about-sally/filmography/

”You never get used to working with him. I was glad to become part of his company, though, because he tends to use you again and again. You have to be on your toes every second. This time I was improvising with Lesley Manville and Imelda Staunton, two total heroes to me.”—Sally Hawkins talking about Mike Leigh in the British newspaper The Observer on October 10, 2004.http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/oct/10/features.review1

”I’m afraid I find interviews quite difficult… as you can see. I suppose I’m just a very private person. However, I do realise that I’m in a profession where you are “out there” a lot. One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people’s lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.”—Sally Hawkins in an interview with John Preston from The Telegraph in April 2010.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7619843/Sally-Hawkins-interview.html