Sally Hawkins is a very unusual actress: in her homeland, in the UK, she is called the “intellectual actress”, as well as the unchanging muse of the famous director Mike Lee. These two creative people agreed on the same understanding of the role of the actor in conveying to the audience simple ideas that are transparent and understandable to the most ordinary person.
Sally Cecilia Hawkins was born in 1976 in the capital of England, in the family of an artist and a children's writer. Creativity is a short definition of the atmosphere in which the girl grew up. It is hard to imagine how Sally studied at school, because from childhood she suffered from dyslexia.
After graduating from school, Sally entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Here she also had to compete for the right to graduate from this educational institution because of the diagnosis. However, determination and a great desire to play won - Sally did an excellent job with her studies.
After the Academy, work began in the theater, and these were serious productions and roles - based on the works of Shakespeare, Chekhov and other classics.
The young actress was occasionally invited to roles for films and television projects. So, in her biography there is a memorable occasion when she happened to star in the first episode of Star Wars and in the television projects “Doctors” and “Catastrophe”, well-known in England.
Movie career
Gradually, cinema became the main occupation in Sally's life, and she appeared less and less on the stage. This can be understood: the directors began to invite her into their films, and the role in the film "Carefree" (2008) was written specifically for Hawkins. After the release, the picture received four awards at prestigious competitions, was nominated for an Oscar, and Sally received an award in Berlin for Best Actress.
However, this did not happen all of a sudden - until this joyful moment, Sally worked a lot on different female images. They were comic and tragic, but always invariably feminine and very vibrant.
One example of such work is the satirical show Little Britain on television. At the same time, Hawkins starred in the thriller “Layer Cake” (2004). Together with her on the set worked Daniel Craig, Siena Miller and Tom Hardy. This film did not receive much critical acclaim, but Mike Lee’s next masterpiece, the drama Vera Drake, was nominated for an Oscar three times, received the Golden Lion in Venice and had several more prestigious awards.
Films with the participation of Hawkins “Velvet Fingers” and “Velvet Legs were also favorably received by critics and viewers. And for the role of Anne Elliott in the film“ Reason of Reason, ”Sally received the“ Golden Nymph ”in Monte Carlo. She played a similar role in the famous film“ Jane Eyre, only that was already in 2010. Woody Allen was waiting for Sally in 2014 for the Academy Award nomination for the Jasmine film.
The second decade of the twenty-first century brought Hawkins a role in the film about Paddington’s Teddy Bear and the sequel to this painting, as well as in the film “The Shape of Water”, which in 2017 was recognized as the best film of the year by the American Guild of Producers.
