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Romola Garai

Romola Garai

Age
30
Birthday
Aug. 6th, 1982
Born in
Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
Height
5' 9" (1.7

Romola Garai's Main TV Roles

Show Character(s)
The Hour (UK) TV Show
The Hour (UK)
Emma (UK) (2009) TV Show
Emma (UK) (2009)
The Crimson Petal and The White (UK) TV Show
The Crimson Petal and The White (UK)
Mary Bryant (AU) TV Show
Mary Bryant (AU)
 

Main Movie Roles

2009 - Glorious 39
2008 - The Other Man
2007 - Atonement
2006 - Amazing Grace
2006 - As You Like It
2006 - Scoop
2006 - Renaissance
2004 - Inside I'm Dancing
2004 - Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
2004 - Vanity Fair
2003 - I Capture the Castle
2002 - Nicholas Nickleby

Guest TV Roles

[none found]



BIOGRAPHY:

Born in Hong Kong to father Adrian (banker) and mother Janet (journalist), Romola Garai's unusual name is the female version of Romolo, an Italian name for boys (from Latin Romulus, the founder of Rome). She grew up in Singapore and Hong Kong until she was eight when her family returned to lay roots in Wiltshire. At sixteen, she left her parents and youngest sister, Roxy, to live in London with her older sister, Rosie, and attend school at City of London's School for Girls, where her major studies were based on theatre. She got her beginnings as a professional actress when she was spotted in a school production by a casting director looking for girls to play Judi Dench in the ITV drama The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) (TV). After that role, she went on with her studies, eventually enrolling in University of London where she majored in English, planning to become a journalist like her mother once was. But after offers for other roles began to come in, she deferred her degree and eventually quit altogether to focus more on her acting career. Romola went on to film "Daniel Deronda" (2002), I Capture the Castle (2003), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004) and Vanity Fair (2004) with Reese Witherspoon. Not to mention her role in the West End adaptation of George Eliot's novel, Calico as Lucia Joyce for which she was nominated Outstanding Newcomer by the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.


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