Sally Hawkins
Sally Cecilia Hawkins (born 27 April 1976) is an English actress who began her career on stage and then moved into film. She has received several awards including a Golden Globe Award and the Berlin International Film Festival's Silver Bear for Best Actress, with nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Academy Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she started her career as a stage actress in productions such as Romeo and Juliet (playing Juliet), Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her first major role was in Mike Leigh's All or Nothing in 2002. She continued working with Leigh, appearing in a supporting role in Vera Drake (2004) and taking the lead in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), for which she won several awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the Silver Bear for Best Actress. Hawkins appeared in two Woody Allen films, Cassandra's Dream (2007) and Blue Jasmine (2013); for the latter, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to play the lead role in Made in Dagenham (2010), Paddington (2014), Maudie (2016), and Paddington 2 (2017), and appeared in Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). For starring as a mute cleaning woman in the romantic fantasy film The Shape of Water (2017), she earned acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She has also appeared in stage productions with the Royal Court Theatre in London, and in 2010 made her Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren's Profession. In 2012 she starred in Constellations at the Royal Court Theatre, which later moved to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End. On television, she appeared in the BBC adaptations of Tipping the Velvet (2002) as Zena Blake, and Fingersmith (2005) as Sue Trinder. She also appeared as Anne Elliot in Persuasion (2007), ITV's adaptation of Jane Austen's novel.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Kensuke's Kingdom as Mum (voice)
- 2023 · Wonka as Willy's Mother
- 2023 · The Smeds and the Smoos as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Mammals as Lue
- 2022 · The Lost King as Philippa Langley
- 2022 · The Phantom of the Open as Jean Flitcroft
- 2021 · A Boy Called Christmas as Mother Vodol
- 2021 · Spencer as Maggie
- 2020 · The Snail and the Whale as Snail (voice)
- 2020 · Eternal Beauty as Jane
- 2019 · Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Dr. Vivienne Graham
- 2017 · The Shape of Water as Elisa Esposito
- 2017 · Paddington 2 as Mary Brown
- 2016 · Maudie as Maud Lewis
- 2015 · Stick Man as Stick Lady & Others (voice)
- 2014 · Paddington as Mary Brown
- 2014 · The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
- 2014 · Godzilla: Force of Nature as Herself
- 2014 · Godzilla as Dr. Vivienne Graham
- 2014 · The Double as Receptionist at Ball
- 2014 · X+Y as Julie Ellis
- 2013 · The Phone Call as Heather
- 2013 · All is Bright as Olga
- 2013 · Blue Jasmine as Ginger
- 2012 · Room on the Broom as Bird (voice)
- 2012 · Great Expectations as Mrs. Joe
- 2012 · The Hollow Crown as Eleanor
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Willy Wonka's Mother / Mary Brown (archive footage)
- 2011 · Submarine as Jill Tate
- 2011 · Jane Eyre as Mrs. Reed
- 2011 · Love Birds as Holly
- 2010 · Conan as Self - Guest
- 2010 · Made in Dagenham as Rita O'Grady
- 2010 · It's a Wonderful Afterlife as Linda / Gitali
- 2010 · Never Let Me Go as Miss Lucy
- 2009 · An Education as Sarah Goldman
- 2009 · Happy Ever Afters as Maura
- 2009 · Desert Flower as Marylin
- 2008 · Happy-Go-Lucky as Poppy Cross
- 2007 · Cassandra's Dream as Kate
- 2007 · WΔZ as Elly Carpenter
- 2007 · Persuasion as Anne Elliot
- 2006 · The Painted Veil as (Credited but deleted)
- 2006 · HG Wells: War with the World as Rebecca West
- 2006 · Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart as Nathalie Winter
- 2006 · Hollow China as Terri
- 2005 · Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky as Ella
- 2005 · Fingersmith as Sue Trinder
- 2004 · Vera Drake as Susan Wells
- 2004 · Layer Cake as Slasher
- 2003 · The Young Visiters as Rosalind
- 2003 · Promoted to Glory as Lisa
- 2003 · Byron as Mary Shelley
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- 2003 · Byron as Mary Shelley
- 2002 · Tipping the Velvet as Zena Blake
- 2002 · All or Nothing as Samantha
- 2000 · Doctors as Sarah Carne
- 1999 · Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as Bystander (uncredited)
- 1986 · Casualty as Emma Lister
- Future · The Semplica Girl Diaries as
- Future · Bring Her Back as