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Romola Garai

Romola Garai
Born: Jul 1, 1982
Career: 2000-2009
Countries: USA
UK
Genre/Type: Comedy Drama
Comedy
Romance
Drama
Biography by Nathan Southern
Despite a visage and presence that seemed to almost predestine her for movie stardom, fair-haired Romola Garai stumbled into acting almost inadvertently. A performer of Hungarian extraction on both her maternal and paternal sides, she grew up with a banker father and a journalist mother and three brothers and sisters, and lived in Singapore and Hong Kong until the age of eight. Though never consciously nurturing any disciplined aspirations to become a film actress, Garai began to move toward the seventh art in her mid-teens, first by appearing in high school plays, then by joining England's National Youth Theatre. Academically, she enrolled in the City of London School for Girls and (later) London University, as an English major, but a year into her tenure there, a casting director working for producer Su Armstrong and director Gillies MacKinnon noticed her and tapped her for a small role in the bittersweet musical seriocomedy The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, opposite Olympia Dukakis, Judi Dench, and Ian Holm, and Garai's career was secure. She almost immediately snagged an agent, and numerous additional offers began rolling in. Garai's breakthrough arrived in 2003, with a star turn in Tim Fywell's Dodie Smith adaptation I Capture the Castle, for which she did an overwhelming amount of preliminary research and -- uncoincidentally -- earned high praise from critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Work came quickly and furiously at that point; assignments included hotfooting her way through the Dirty Dancing follow-up Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), starring as Amelia Sedley opposite Reese Witherspoon in Mira Nair's Vanity Fair (2004), and -- on a particularly memorable note -- playing the troubled 18-year-old Briony Tallis in the 2007 Best Picture nominee Atonement, opposite bombshell Keira Knightley -- a performer to whom many favorably compared Garai.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
Glorious 39 2009 Actor [Starring]
The Other Man 2008 Actor [Starring]
Angel 2007 Actor [Starring]
As You Like It 2007 Actor [Starring]
Atonement 2007 Actor [Starring]
Amazing Grace 2006 Actor [Starring]
Renaissance 2006 Voice [Starring]
Scoop 2006 Actor [Starring]
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant 2005 Actor [Starring]
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights 2004 Actor [Starring]
Rory O'Shea Was Here 2004 Actor [Starring]
Vanity Fair 2004 Actor [Starring]
I Capture The Castle 2003 Actor [Starring]
Daniel Deronda 2002 Actor [Starring]
Nicholas Nickleby 2002 Actor [Starring]
Perfect 2001 Actor [Starring]
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Romola Garai's nickname is Romster
I don't know, but did you know she went to my school? As did Dido.
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