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Sally Hawkins

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.

Kensuke's Kingdom

2024

as Mum (voice)

Wonka

2023

as Willy's Mother

The Smeds and the Smoos

2023

as Narrator (voice)

Mammals

2022

as Lue

The Lost King

2022

as Philippa Langley

The Phantom of the Open

2022

as Jean Flitcroft

A Boy Called Christmas

2021

as Mother Vodol

Spencer

2021

as Maggie

The Snail and the Whale

2020

as Snail (voice)

Eternal Beauty

2020

as Jane

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

2019

as Dr. Vivienne Graham

The Shape of Water

2017

as Elisa Esposito

Paddington 2

2017

as Mary Brown

Maudie

2016

as Maud Lewis

Stick Man

2015

as Stick Lady & Others (voice)

Paddington

2014

as Mary Brown

The One and Only Mike Leigh

2014

as Self

Godzilla: Force of Nature

2014

as Herself

Godzilla

2014

as Dr. Vivienne Graham

The Double

2014

as Receptionist at Ball

X+Y

2014

as Julie Ellis

The Phone Call

2013

as Heather

All is Bright

2013

as Olga

Blue Jasmine

2013

as Ginger

Room on the Broom

2012

as Bird (voice)

Great Expectations

2012

as Mrs. Joe

The Hollow Crown

2012

as Eleanor

Honest Trailers

2012

as Willy Wonka's Mother / Mary Brown (archive footage)

Submarine

2011

as Jill Tate

Jane Eyre

2011

as Mrs. Reed

Love Birds

2011

as Holly

Made in Dagenham

2010

as Rita O'Grady

It's a Wonderful Afterlife

2010

as Linda / Gitali

Never Let Me Go

2010

as Miss Lucy

An Education

2009

as Sarah Goldman

Happy Ever Afters

2009

as Maura

Desert Flower

2009

as Marylin

Happy-Go-Lucky

2008

as Poppy Cross

Cassandra's Dream

2007

as Kate

WΔZ

2007

as Elly Carpenter

Persuasion

2007

as Anne Elliot

The Painted Veil

2006

as (Credited but deleted)

HG Wells: War with the World

2006

as Rebecca West

Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart

2006

as Nathalie Winter

Hollow China

2006

as Terri

Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky

2005

as Ella

Fingersmith

2005

as Sue Trinder

Vera Drake

2004

as Susan Wells

Layer Cake

2004

as Slasher

The Young Visiters

2003

as Rosalind

Promoted to Glory

2003

as Lisa

Byron

2003

as Mary Shelley

Byron

2003

as Mary Shelley

Tipping the Velvet

2002

as Zena Blake

All or Nothing

2002

as Samantha

Doctors

2000

as Sarah Carne

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

1999

as Bystander (uncredited)

Casualty

1986

as Emma Lister

The Semplica Girl Diaries

Bring Her Back