Romola Garai

  • Name: Romola Garai
  • Date of Birth: August 06, 1982
  • Place of Birth: Southwark, London, England, UK
Mini-bio: Despite a visage and presence that seemed to almost predestine her for movie stardom, fair-haired Romola Garai stumbled into acting almost inadvertently. A performer of Hungarian extraction on both he... read morer maternal and paternal sides, she grew up with a banker father and a journalist mother and three brothers and sisters, and lived in Singapore and Hong Kong until the age of eight. Though never consciously nurturing any disciplined aspirations to become a film actress, Garai began to move toward the seventh art in her mid-teens, first by appearing in high school plays, then by joining England's National Youth Theatre. Academically, she enrolled in the City of London School for Girls and (later) London University, as an English major, but a year into her tenure there, a casting director working for producer Su Armstrong and director Gillies MacKinnon noticed her and tapped her for a small role in the bittersweet musical seriocomedy The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, opposite Olympia Dukakis, Judi Dench, and Ian Holm, and Garai's career was secure. She almost immediately snagged an agent, and numerous additional offers began rolling in. Garai's breakthrough arrived in 2003, with a star turn in Tim Fywell's Dodie Smith adaptation I Capture the Castle, for which she did an overwhelming amount of preliminary research and -- uncoincidentally -- earned high praise from critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Work came quickly and furiously at that point; assignments included hotfooting her way through the Dirty Dancing follow-up Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), starring as Amelia Sedley opposite Reese Witherspoon in Mira Nair's Vanity Fair (2004), and -- on a particularly memorable note -- playing the troubled 18-year-old Briony Tallis in the 2007 Best Picture nominee Atonement, opposite bombshell Keira Knightley -- a performer to whom many favorably compared Garai. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Romola Sadie Garai (born 1 July 1982) is an award-winning English actress.
François Ozon describes Garai as 'brilliant' and calls her his muse.

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Garai was born in Hong Kong,[1][2] the daughter of Janet, a journalist, and Adrian Garai, a high-ranked bank manager. She relocated to Singapore at five before her family returned to Wiltshire in the United Kingdom when she was eight. Garai's father is of Jewish Hungarian descent;[3] her great-grandfather was Bert Garai, the founder of the Keystone Press.[4]
She attended an independent boarding school, at Stonar and later moved at sixteen to London to attend the City of London School for Girls where she ended up finishing off her A-levels. She was fond of drama and appeared in school plays, and also with the National Youth Theatre up until the age of 18, where she was spotted by an agent who whisked her away to play the younger version of Judi Dench's character in a television production called The Last of the Blonde Bombshells.[2]
After A-levels, she studied English Literature at Queen Mary, University of London; she originally intended to only study but decided to do acting on the side during the summer holidays.[2]

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In 2005, Garai received another BIFA nomination, this time for their Best Supporting Actress award, for her performance as Siobhan in the independent film Inside I'm Dancing. Her portrayal earned her the British Supporting Actress of the Year award from the London Film Critics Circle.
Also in 2005 Garai starred in a lavish Australian miniseries called The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant. At $15 million it was the most expensive miniseries ever shot in Australia. While critics hailed it as "pleasingly old-fashioned adventure", it was her performance that won the most admiration and earn her two nominations: Best Lead Actress in Television from the Australian Film Institute and Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series from the Logie Awards. As The Observer noted: "As for the tireless Garai, she once again demonstrated an instinctive understanding of the vital difference between overperforming and overacting. Garai was last seen on television in the BBC's Andrew Davies adaptation of Daniel Deronda, which was screened simultaneously with Davies's ITV adaptation of Dr. Zhivago, featuring Keira Knightley. Garai's Gwendolen was so superior to Knightley's Lara that it may have been the first time an actor was blown off not just the screen but a whole different channel".

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When casting for Dr. Zhivago, Davies originally had Garai in mind for the role of Lara, but when Knightley auditioned, he decided that she was the better actress for the role. A similar thing happened with Joe Wright's adaption of Pride & Prejudice. Wright had initially thought that Knightley was too beautiful for the role, but her tomboy nature eventually won him over. Conversely, when casting his latest film, Atonement, in which both actresses appear, Wright ended up casting Garai in a role he had originally imagined Knightley would take.
She can be seen in Kenneth Branagh's new film adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It, as Celia. The film was released in some European cinemas before being broadcast on HBO cable television in the U.S.

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In 2007, Garai starred in her biggest role yet, as Angel Deverell in Francois Ozon's Angel. Critics raved about her performance and she developed a strong bond with Ozon who now calls her his 'muse'.
She appeared in two Royal Shakespeare Company productions: as Cordelia in King Lear and as Nina in The Seagull, starring alongside Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Sylvester McCoy, Jonathan Hyde and William Gaunt. The run, which tour the world, went into residence in the New London Theatre where it ended mid-January 2008. She received rave reviews, especially as Nina in The Seagull, The Independent calling her a "woman on the edge of stardom"[6], and This Is London calling her "superlative", and stating that the play was "distinguished by the illuminating, psychological insights of Miss Garai's performance."[7] She will reprise her role as Cordelia in a televised version of King Lear. She will also be working on the upcoming feature film The Other Man alongside Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Antonio Banderas. Romola was cast as the female lead in Good alongside Viggo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs but she backed out to take some time off film projects to concentrate on University. She has also signed on for a new feature film Flying Into Love where she will play the iconic American First Lady Jackie Kennedy.

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Romola Garai Information:
Eye color: Brown
Height: 5' 9"
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Notable feature(s): Blonde hair
Education: Queen Mary, University of London
Family: Parents: Adriana and Janet Garai. She is the third of four siblings.
Resides in: London, England
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Personal interests/hobbies:Traveling, Cooking.
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