29 Facts About Rebecca Hall

Rebecca Maria Hall was born on 3 May 1982 and is an English actress and director.

Rebecca Hall made her first onscreen appearance at the age of 10 in the 1992 television adaptation of The Camomile Lawn, directed by her father, Peter Hall.

In 2006, following her film debut in Starter for 10, Hall got her breakthrough role in Christopher Nolan's thriller film The Prestige.

In 2016, Rebecca Hall was praised by critics for her portrayal of news reporter Christine Chubbuck in the biographical drama Christine.

Rebecca Hall has since starred in the MonsterVerse films Godzilla vs Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and made her directorial debut with the period drama Passing.

Rebecca Hall won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2009 Channel 4 miniseries Red Riding: 1974.

Rebecca Hall was born on 3 May 1982 in London, the daughter of the American opera singer Maria Ewing and Peter Rebecca Hall, an English stage director and founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Rebecca Hall's mother was born in Detroit, the daughter of an African-American mixed-race father and a white Dutch mother.

Rebecca Hall is a descendant of the American Revolutionary War veteran Bazabeel Norman, a free black man.

Years later as a guest on Finding Your Roots, Rebecca Hall discovered that, while her maternal grandfather, Norman Isaac Ewing, had performed as a Native American figure and was reported as a Sioux chief in newspapers, he was the son of mixed-race African-American parents, and had no Native American ancestry.

Rebecca Hall's father, Hall's great-grandfather John William Ewing, had been born into slavery.

Rebecca Hall's parents separated when she was still young, eventually divorcing in 1990.

Rebecca Hall studied English literature at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, before dropping out in 2002, just before her final year.

Rebecca Hall was a member of the Marlowe Society and performed in several productions alongside her housemate Dan Stevens, an English literature student at Emmanuel College.

Rebecca Hall got her breakthrough with the role of Sarah Borden in Christopher Nolan's film The Prestige.

Rebecca Hall appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's Joe's Palace in 2007, in addition to appearing in several other television films, including Wide Sargasso Sea and Rubberheart.

In 2013, Rebecca Hall replaced Jessica Chastain as Maya Hansen in the superhero film Iron Man 3.

Rebecca Hall starred opposite Johnny Depp in Wally Pfister's directorial debut Transcendence.

In 2015, Rebecca Hall starred in the romantic comedy Tumbledown and Joel Edgerton's directorial debut The Gift.

In 2018 Rebecca Hall provided English dubbing for the character Mother in Mirai.

In 2021 Rebecca Hall starred in and co-executive produced the well-reviewed horror-thriller The Night House.

Rebecca Hall wrote the screenplay and co-produced the film, which was largely inspired by her own mixed-race heritage, as well as her African-American ancestors who passed as white.

Rebecca Hall made her professional stage debut in 2002 when she starred as Vivie in her father's production of Mrs Warren's Profession at the Strand Theatre in London.

Rebecca Hall's performance, described as "admirable" and "accomplished", earned her the Ian Charleson Award in 2003.

In 2003, Rebecca Hall's father celebrated 50 years as a theatre director by staging a season of five plays at the Theatre Royal in Bath, Somerset.

In 2004, Rebecca Hall appeared in three plays for the Peter Rebecca Hall Company at the Theatre Royal Bath, two of which her father directed: Man and Superman in which she played Ann, and Galileo's Daughter in which she played Sister Maria Celeste.

In 2005, Rebecca Hall reprised the role of Rosalind in a touring production of As You Like It, again under the direction of her father.

Rebecca Hall made her Broadway debut in 2013 in Sophie Treadwell's expressionist play Machinal.

In 2014, Rebecca Hall met the actor Morgan Spector while co-starring in a Broadway production.