The Orange Rising Star Award
Rebecca Hall
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Rebecca Hall
Rebecca has already proven herself a versatile and intriguing young talent, working in film and theatre with some of the industry’s biggest names, including Woody Allen, Michael Caine and Penélope Cruz. She’ll next play Caroline Cushing in Oscar-winning director Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon.
biography
Born: 19 May 1982 Nationality: British
Rebecca’s first screen role was in the Channel 4 adaptation of Mary Wesley’s The Camomile Lawn, when she was just ten years old. As a student at Cambridge, she played many roles including Miranda in The Tempest and Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Since University she’s continued to act in the theatre, as well as moving into film. Her first feature film role came opposite James McAvoy in Tom Vaughn’s Starter For Ten, a coming-of-age comedy about university students struggling to find themselves while learning the differences between knowledge and wisdom. Next came a role in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige, starring opposite Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Hugh Jackman. In the coming months, she’ll be on screen in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona opposite Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, and Javier Bardem, and as Caroline Cushing in Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon.
filmography
- Starter for 10 2006
- The Prestige 2006
- Wide Sargasso Sea 2006
- Frost/Nixon 2008
- Vicky Christina Barcelona 2009

