Romola Sadie Garai is a British actress and film director.
26 Facts About Romola Garai
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Romola Garai received a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for the BBC Two series The Crimson Petal and the White.
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Romola Garai's family moved to Singapore when she was five, and returned to Wiltshire in England when she was eight.
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Romola Garai attended an independent boarding school, Stonar School in Wiltshire and, at 16, moved to London to attend the City of London School for Girls, where she completed her A-levels.
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Romola Garai originally intended only to focus on her studies but later began acting full-time during the summer holiday.
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Romola Garai then appeared in the BBC television series Attachments.
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Romola Garai played Kate Nickleby, a supporting role, in the well-reviewed film.
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Romola Garai's performance earned her a nomination for a Most Promising Newcomer award from the British Independent Film Awards.
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In 2005, Romola Garai received another BIFA nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Siobhan in the independent film Inside I'm Dancing.
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Romola Garai's portrayal earned her the British Supporting Actress of the Year award from the London Film Critics Circle.
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Romola Garai appears in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of As You Like It, as Celia.
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In 2007, Romola Garai starred as Angel Deverell in Francois Ozon's Angel.
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Romola Garai was nominated for the Prix Lumiere award, as Best Female Newcomer for Angel, making her the first British actress to be nominated for the award.
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Romola Garai earned a Best Actress nomination from the Evening Standard British Film Awards for her performance.
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Romola Garai appeared in two Royal Shakespeare Company productions: as Cordelia in King Lear and as Nina in The Seagull, starring alongside Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Sylvester McCoy, Jonathan Hyde and William Gaunt.
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Romola Garai reprised her role as Cordelia in a televised version of King Lear.
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Romola Garai was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance.
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In 2011, Romola Garai starred in the four-part BBC drama The Crimson Petal and the White based on the novel by Michel Faber.
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Romola Garai was nominated for Best Actress at the 2012 BAFTA awards for the role.
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Romola Garai starred alongside actress Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess in Lone Scherfig's One Day.
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Romola Garai played the part of a drug addicted single mother in the independent British film Junkhearts with Eddie Marsan and Tom Sturridge.
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Romola Garai reprised her role as Bel Rowley in the second season of The Hour, which ran from 14 November to 13 December 2012.
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Romola Garai appeared as Marin Brandt in BBC One's adaptation of the period thriller novel The Miniaturist.
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Romola Garai starred in Ella Hickson's play The Writer at the Almeida Theatre in London from 14 April to 26 May 2018.
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Romola Garai's great-grandfather emigrated from Budapest to New York in the 1910s with his English-born wife, then moved to London, where he founded the Keystone Press Agency.
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Romola Garai is a feminist and has criticised the film industry for its attitudes towards women.