Sally Hawkins is a very unusual actress: in her homeland, Great Britain, she is called an "intellectual actress" and also the constant 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 children's writer. Creativity is a short definition of the atmosphere in which the girl grew up. It is difficult to imagine how Sally went to school because she suffered from dyslexia since childhood.
After graduating from high school, Sally entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Here she also had to fight for the right to become a graduate of this educational institution because of the diagnosis. However, dedication 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 case when she had a chance to act in the first episode of "Star Wars" and in the well-known television projects "Doctors" and "Catastrophe" in England.
Film career
Gradually, cinema became the main occupation in Sally's life, and on the stage she appeared less and less. This is understandable: directors began to invite her to their films, and the role in the film "Carefree" (2008) was written especially 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 - before this joyful moment, Sally had worked a lot on various female images. They were both comic and tragic, but always invariably feminine and very bright.
One example of such work is the satirical show "Little Britain" on television. Simultaneously, Hawkins starred in the thriller Layer Cake (2004). Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller and Tom Hardy worked with her on the set. This film did not receive much critical acclaim, but Mike Lee's next masterpiece, the drama Vera Drake, was three Oscar candidates, won the Golden Lion in Venice and had several more prestigious awards.
The films with Hawkins' participation "Velvet Fingers" and "Velvet Legs" were also favorably received by critics and viewers. And for her role as Ann Eliott in Reason, Sally won the Golden Nymph in Monte Carlo. She played a similar role in the famous film "Jane Eyre", only this was already in 2010. Sally was expected to receive an Oscar nomination for Woody Allen's Jasmine in 2014.
The second decade of the twenty-first century brought Hawkins a role in the film about Paddington Bear and the sequel to this film, 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 Producers Guild.
Personal life
The family of Sally Hawkins so far consists of her alone, and the journalists have not noticed a partner next to her.
There is an unusual moment in her biography: she made a bet with actor James Corden "on the wedding." They argued that if they did not meet their halves before the age of 35, they would get married. James “fell short” one year - he got married at 34. So Sally lost the bet.
It is not known how much this upset or amused her - she has no social media accounts. But there are a lot of fans who publish news and photos of their favorite actress on different sites.
