Rebecca Maria Hall was born on 3 May 1982 and is an English actress and filmmaker.
25 Facts About Rebecca Hall
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Rebecca Hall made her first onscreen appearance at age 10 in the 1992 television adaptation of The Camomile Lawn, directed by her father, Sir Peter Hall.
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In 2006, following her film debut in Starter for 10, Hall got her breakthrough role in Christopher Nolan's thriller film The Prestige.
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In 2016, Rebecca Hall was praised by critics for her portrayal of news reporter Christine Chubbuck in the biographical drama Christine.
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Rebecca Hall made her directorial debut with Passing, receiving critical acclaim.
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Rebecca Hall won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2009 Channel 4 miniseries Red Riding: 1974.
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Rebecca Hall was born on 3 May 1982 in London, the daughter of American opera singer Maria Ewing and English stage director and Royal Shakespeare Company founder Sir Peter Rebecca Hall.
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Rebecca Hall's mother was born in Detroit, to an African-American mixed-race father and a Dutch mother; she is a descendant of Revolutionary War veteran Bazabeel Norman, a free black man.
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On Finding Your Roots, Rebecca Hall discovered that, while her maternal grandfather, Norman Isaac Ewing, had performed as a Native American figure and was recorded as a Sioux chief in newspapers, he had been born to mixed-race African-American parents, and had no Native American ancestry.
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Rebecca Hall's own father, Hall's great-grandfather John William Ewing, had been born into slavery and became a prominent figure in Washington, DC's black community.
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Rebecca Hall's parents separated when she was still young, eventually divorcing in 1990.
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Rebecca Hall studied English literature at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, before dropping out in 2002, just before her final year.
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Rebecca Hall was a member of the Marlowe Society and performed in several productions alongside housemate Dan Stevens, an English literature student at Emmanuel College.
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Rebecca Hall got her breakthrough with the role of Sarah Borden in Christopher Nolan's film The Prestige.
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Rebecca Hall then appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's Joe's Palace in 2007, as well as appearing in several other television films including Wide Sargasso Sea and Rubberheart.
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In 2013, Rebecca Hall replaced Jessica Chastain as Maya Hansen in the superhero film Iron Man 3.
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Rebecca Hall then starred opposite Johnny Depp in Wally Pfister's directorial debut Transcendence.
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In 2015, Rebecca Hall starred in the romantic comedy Tumbledown and Joel Edgerton's directorial debut The Gift.
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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.
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Rebecca Hall's performance, described as "admirable" and "accomplished", earned her the Ian Charleson Award in 2003.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rebecca Hall made her Broadway debut in 2013 in Sophie Treadwell's expressionist play Machinal.
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In 2014, Rebecca Hall met actor Morgan Spector while co-starring in a Broadway production.