Sarah Caroline Sinclair, known professionally as Olivia Colman, is a British actress.
66 Facts About Olivia Colman
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Olivia Colman received the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for the comedy programme Twenty Twelve and Best Supporting Actress for the crime programme Accused.
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Olivia Colman was acclaimed for her performance in the ITV crime-drama series Broadchurch, for which she received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
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Olivia Colman played Queen Elizabeth II from 2019 to 2020 in the Netflix period-drama series The Crown, for which she received a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
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Olivia Colman received additional Academy Award nominations for her performances in The Father, and The Lost Daughter.
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Olivia Colman was born in Norwich on 30 January 1974, the daughter of nurse Mary and chartered surveyor Keith Olivia Colman.
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Olivia Colman was privately educated at Norwich High School for Girls and Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk.
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Olivia Colman cites her mother's interrupted career as a ballet dancer as an inspiration to pursue acting professionally.
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Olivia Colman spent a term studying primary education at Homerton College, Cambridge before studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, from which she graduated in 1999.
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Olivia Colman had to adopt a different stage name when she began working professionally, because Equity already had an actress named Sarah Olivia Colman.
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Olivia Colman made her professional acting debut in 2000 at age 26 as part of the BBC Two comedy sketch show, Bruiser.
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Olivia Colman has appeared in a number of BBC, ITV and Channel 4 television series, such as People Like Us, Look Around You, Black Books, The Office and The Time of Your Life.
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Olivia Colman provided the voice-over for Channel 5's poll for Britain's Funniest Comedy Character.
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Olivia Colman regularly appeared on BBC Radio 4 comedies, such as Concrete Cow, Think the Unthinkable, The House of Milton Jones and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
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Olivia Colman was the voice of Minka, the Polish secretary in the Radio 4 comedy Hut 33 set in a fictional code-breaking hut at Bletchley Park during World War II.
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Olivia Colman appeared as Bev, with Mark Burdis as Kev, in a series of television advertisements for AA car insurance.
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Olivia Colman provided voices for the Andrex "be kind to your behind" and Glade fragrance advertisements.
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On several projects, Olivia Colman has worked with the comedians Mitchell and Webb.
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Olivia Colman joined them in 2003 to play Sophie in the Channel 4 comedy Peep Show.
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Olivia Colman decided to leave the programme after her agent suggested that she was becoming too closely associated with their work and needed to widen her horizons, a decision which was made "with tears".
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Olivia Colman has appeared on Peep Show less often until it ended in 2015.
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Olivia Colman had a recurring role in the surrealist comedy Green Wing from 2004 to 2006.
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In 2007, Olivia Colman starred as Alice in the comedy film Grow Your Own and as PC Doris Thatcher in the action comedy film Hot Fuzz.
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Olivia Colman played a lead role in Paddy Considine's short film Dog Altogether.
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Olivia Colman appeared in October and November 2008 in the BBC sitcom Beautiful People as Debbie Doonan, Simon's mother.
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Olivia Colman made a guest appearance in the episode "Naomi" of the series Skins as Naomi's mother, Gina.
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Olivia Colman had a lead role in 2010 as Alex Smallbone, the wife of an inner-city vicar, in the BBC sitcom Rev starring Tom Hollander; the series ran from 2010 to 2014.
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Olivia Colman guest-starred that year in "The Eleventh Hour" episode of Doctor Who, Matt Smith's debut as the Eleventh Doctor.
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Olivia Colman appeared the following year in the BBC drama Exile, written by Danny Brocklehurst and starring John Simm and Jim Broadbent.
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Olivia Colman rejoined Considine in 2011 for his feature-film directorial debut, Tyrannosaur, receiving the BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film and the Empire Award for Best Actress.
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Olivia Colman played Carol Thatcher that year in the Academy Award-winning drama The Iron Lady, with Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent, for which she received the London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year.
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In 2013, Olivia Colman began playing DS Ellie Miller in ITV's Broadchurch.
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Olivia Colman was nominated for an International Emmy Award for Best Actress and received a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her performance.
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Olivia Colman starred that year as Margaret Lea in the BBC television film, The Thirteenth Tale.
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Olivia Colman starred in Yorgos Lanthimos' 2015 absurdist dystopian film, The Lobster, with Rachel Weisz and Colin Farrell.
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Olivia Colman was nominated for the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Supporting Actress of the Year and received the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Olivia Colman starred as Deborah Flowers that year in the Channel 4 black-comedy series, Flowers.
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Olivia Colman voiced Strawberry in the Netflix-BBC animated miniseries, Watership Down.
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Olivia Colman played Hildegarde Schmidt, Princess Dragomiroff's lady's maid, in Kenneth Branagh's 2017 remake of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
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In 2018, Olivia Colman starred as Queen Anne in Lanthimos' film The Favourite with Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz.
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Olivia Colman received positive reviews for her supporting role as Madame Thenardier in the 2018 BBC miniseries Les Miserables, an adaptation of the novel of the same name.
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In October 2017, Olivia Colman was cast as Queen Elizabeth II for the third and fourth seasons of the Netflix historical drama series The Crown; the third season was released in November 2019.
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Olivia Colman starred with Anthony Hopkins in Florian Zeller's 2020 film adaptation of his stage play, The Father, which focuses on an elderly man dealing with memory loss.
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Hopkins and Olivia Colman received widespread praise for their performances, as did the film for its accurate depiction of dementia.
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Olivia Colman was executive producer and starred with David Thewlis in the HBO true-crime miniseries Landscapers created by her husband, Ed Sinclair.
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Olivia Colman starred that year in Maggie Gyllenhaal's psychological drama The Lost Daughter, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante.
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Olivia Colman's performance was critically praised and she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Academy Award for Best Actress.
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In 2022, Olivia Colman appeared as Sarah Nelson in the Netflix coming-of-age series Heartstopper and received the inaugural Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Performance for her performance in the first season.
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Also in 2022, Olivia Colman starred in the coming-of-age comedy film Joyride.
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Olivia Colman played the lead role in the romantic drama film Empire of Light, directed by Sam Mendes.
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Olivia Colman had starring voice roles in the DreamWorks animated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and in Netflix's Scrooge: A Christmas Carol.
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Olivia Colman was cast in the musical film Wonka, which explores Willy Wonka's origins as a prequel to the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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Since 2013, Olivia Colman has been a judge of the Norwich Film Festival.
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Olivia Colman signed an open letter in November 2020 condemning violence and discrimination against trans women.
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Olivia Colman presented two of the 2013 Mind Media Awards, which celebrate accurate, responsible and sensitive portrayals of mental health across the media.
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Olivia Colman believes that "the media industry has huge influence and with that comes a responsibility to contest the stigma that sadly still exists, through accurate representation".
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Olivia Colman has spoken openly to the Big Issue about her experience of postnatal depression after the birth of her first child.
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Olivia Colman has said that domestic-violence prevention can make a difference in the lives of young people.
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Olivia Colman's great-grandmother suffered from dementia and her mother was involved in running a nursing home for patients.
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Olivia Colman has supported charity campaigns for the Marie Curie Great Daffodil Appeal for the terminally ill.
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In December 2014, Olivia Colman was involved in a BBC Radio documentary about the plight of women in Afghanistan for Amnesty International UK.
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Several women who told their stories to journalist Lyse Doucet were unable to appear because their lives might have been at risk; Olivia Colman read their stories as part of the documentary and said that the UK must not abandon Afghan women to the Taliban.
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Olivia Colman became patron of the Anthony Nolan blood-cancer charity in 2018, which she said helped a friend of hers.
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Olivia Colman has received a number of awards, including an Academy Award, three British Academy Television Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four British Independent Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards, five Satellite Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Emmy Awards, a Volpi Cup, and a BFI Fellowship.
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Olivia Colman received another Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the comedy series Fleabag.
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Olivia Colman was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours for her services to drama.