Sally Hawkins Sally Cecilia Hawkins is an English actress.
Her performance as Poppy in the 2008 Mike Leigh film Happy-Go-Lucky won her several
international awards, including the Golden Globe Award and the Silver Bear for Best Actress
at the Berlin Film Festival.
Other notable roles have included Susan in Vera Drake (2004), Sarah in An Education (2009),
Rita O'Grady in Made in Dagenham (2010), Sue Trinder in the BBC serial Fingersmith (2005),
Anne Elliot in Persuasion (2007), and Ginger in the 2013 Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine,
for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Hawkins had previously worked with Woody Allen in Cassandra's Dream (2007).
Early life The daughter of Jacqui and Colin Hawkins,
authors and illustrators of children's books, Hawkins was born in Dulwich, and raised in
Blackheath, in southeast London.
She attended James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich.
She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1998.
Career Hawkins' theatre appearances include Much
Ado About Nothing (2000), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2000), Misconceptions (2001), Country
Music (2004), David Hare's adaptation of Federico García Lorca's play The House of Bernarda
Alba in 2005, and "Constellations (play)" in 2012.
Hawkins made her first notable screen performance as Samantha in the 2002 Mike Leigh film All
or Nothing.
She also appeared as Slasher in the 2004 film Layer Cake.
She played the role of Zena Blake in the BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters' novel, Tipping
the Velvet in 2002.
Her first major television role came in 2005, when she played Susan Trinder in the BAFTA-nominated
BBC drama Fingersmith, an adaptation of Sarah Waters' novel of the same name, in which she
co-starred with Imelda Staunton, as she had in Vera Drake.
Since then she has gone on to star in another BBC adaptation, Patrick Hamilton's Twenty
Thousand Streets Under the Sky.
Hawkins appeared in three episodes of the BBC comedy series Little Britain, in addition
to Ed Reardon's Week on BBC Radio 4.
She has also contributed to the BBC Radio 4 series Concrete Cow.
In 2006, Hawkins returned to the stage, appearing at the Royal Court Theatre in Jez Butterworth's
The Winterling.
In 2007, she played the lead in a new film of Jane Austen's Persuasion, and followed
this with her critically acclaimed performance in Happy-Go-Lucky.
Questions and a minor controversy arose when Hawkins was not nominated for an Academy Award
for her performance as Poppy.
It was the first year since 2000–01 that the winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actress
in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was not nominated for an Academy Award, and the
first year since 1995–96 that no one from the category was nominated.
During 2006 she also made uncredited appearances in Richard Ayoade's Man to Man with Dean Learner
where she played various uncredited roles from Personal Assistant to Wife of Steve Pising
in various deleted scenes included on the DVD.
Hawkins' 2009–10 films included Desert Flower, Never Let Me Go, and Happy Ever Afters.
In November 2010, she appeared on Broadway as Vivie in Mrs. Warren's Profession.
In 2011, Hawkins appeared in Submarine and had a supporting role in the film adaptation
of Jane Eyre.
In 2013, Hawkins starred opposite Cate Blanchett in the critically acclaimed Woody Allen movie
Blue Jasmine, a role for which she received widespread critical acclaim and her first
Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, as well as nods from the Golden Globes
and BAFTA.
Hawkins will appear in Godzilla in 2014.
Awards At the 2007 Monte Carlo TV Festival, Hawkins
won the Golden Nymph for Best Performance by an Actress for her role as Anne Elliot
in Persuasion.
In addition to the Golden Globe, Hawkins received numerous awards for her starring role in Happy-Go-Lucky,
including the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival,
the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, and the San Francisco Film
Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
Filmography Television
Radio Concrete Cow (2002)
Think the Unthinkable (2004) The Cenci Family (2004)
War with the Newts (2005) The Party Line (2005)
Ed Reardon's Week (2005) Afternoon Romancers (2005)
Cut to the Heart (2007)