10 Facts About Hattie Morahan

Hattie Morahan's older sister Rebecca is a theatre director, and her half-brother Andy is a music video and film director.

Hattie Morahan wanted to attend Newcastle University, but her father encouraged her to follow older sister Rebecca to New Hall, Cambridge, from which she graduated with a BA degree in English in 2000.

Hattie Morahan made her professional debut at 17, playing the leading role of Una Gwithian in a two-part BBC television adaptation of The Peacock Spring.

Hattie Morahan joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2001, making her theatre debut at Stratford-upon-Avon in Love in a Wood and her London debut at the Barbican Theatre in Hamlet.

Hattie Morahan has appeared in series 1,2 and 4 of Outnumbered, as well as the Christmas Specials in 2009,2011,2012 and 2024.

Hattie Morahan returned to the National in April 2009 to play Kay Conway in Rupert Goold's production of J B Priestley's Time and the Conways in the Lyttelton auditorium and Dawn in Caryl Churchill's Three More Sleepless Nights in the same season.

From 8 August to 26 October 2013, Hattie Morahan reprised her role as Nora Helmer alongside Dominic Rowan, who returned as her husband Torvald, at the Duke of York's Theatre London.

In July 2015, Hattie Morahan played the role of doomed mother Elizabeth Aldridge in the BBC's two-part television adaptation of Sadie Jones' debut novel The Outcast.

Hattie Morahan has been in a relationship with actor and director Blake Ritson since they met at university in the late 1990s; the pair have been engaged since the mid 2000s.

Hattie Morahan gave birth to the couple's daughter in August 2016 and to their son in 2020.