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.
2024
as Mum (voice)
2023
as Willy's Mother
2023
as Narrator (voice)
2022
as Lue
2022
as Philippa Langley
2022
as Jean Flitcroft
2021
as Mother Vodol
2021
as Maggie
2020
as Snail (voice)
2020
as Jane
2019
as Dr. Vivienne Graham
2017
as Elisa Esposito
2017
as Mary Brown
2016
as Maud Lewis
2015
as Stick Lady & Others (voice)
2014
as Mary Brown
2014
as Self
2014
as Herself
2014
as Dr. Vivienne Graham
2014
as Receptionist at Ball
2014
as Julie Ellis
2013
as Heather
2013
as Olga
2013
as Ginger
2012
as Bird (voice)
2012
as Mrs. Joe
2012
as Eleanor
2012
as Willy Wonka's Mother / Mary Brown (archive footage)
2011
as Jill Tate
2011
as Mrs. Reed
2011
as Holly
2010
as Rita O'Grady
2010
as Linda / Gitali
2010
as Miss Lucy
2009
as Sarah Goldman
2009
as Maura
2009
as Marylin
2008
as Poppy Cross
2007
as Kate
2007
as Elly Carpenter
2007
as Anne Elliot
2006
as (Credited but deleted)
2006
as Rebecca West
2006
as Nathalie Winter
2006
as Terri
2005
as Ella
2005
as Sue Trinder
2004
as Susan Wells
2004
as Slasher
2003
as Rosalind
2003
as Lisa
2003
as Mary Shelley
2003
as Mary Shelley
2002
as Zena Blake
2002
as Samantha
2000
as Sarah Carne
1999
as Bystander (uncredited)
1986
as Emma Lister