Every job I do, I realise how little I know. Named as one of the Actresses of the Year by The Independent (2008) for, Hailed by The Sunday Times Magazine as one of Britain's finest Rising Stars along with. She is an English actress-writer-director who has worked extensively on film, television and theatre. Due to the current pandemic various venues and productions are making announcements for their individual shows. She is starring in a belated West End transfer of Helen Edmundson’s Queen Anne, which was premiered at Stratford in 2015 and opened at Theatre Royal Haymarket on July 10. We look forward to welcoming you back into our theatres as soon as we are allowed to resume performances. Romola Garai, Actress: Atonement. Click here to learn more. She is an English actress-writer-director who has worked extensively on film, television and theatre. She had previously appeared opposite Imelda Staunton in the West End production of Calico, but this two month run, though it gave her the taste for working live in front of an audience, was barely an hors d’oeuvre to the feast of this year. We are processing in strict date order of performance, so you are likely to be contacted after the date you were due to go to the theatre. Romola has said her ideal role would be to play the eighteenth century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). While theatres are currently closed, various venues and productions are making announcements for their individual shows, including cancellations and rescheduled performances. There is nothing that you need to do if your performance has been cancelled, but we do ask for your patience. Currently closed due to the current situation, we are now selling our great last minute seats and prices online. From Saint Maud to The Wicker Man here are some British horror movies that are certain to keep you looking over your shoulder for weeks to come. her debut feature, the horror film Amulet, will premiere in the Midnight Madness section at Sundance 2020. We are now cancelling all performances up until and including 31 May 2020 to help us process existing bookings whilst we wait for further clarity from the government in terms of when we will be able to reopen. A casting agent, scouting at her school for young girls, chose her for her first acting role in. The quality of her co-stars can’t hurt her professional growth. There's nothing I could do to defend it morally and I know it's not good for you, but I smoke and I can't lie about that. As you grow up, that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there. Romola Garai … The joy that the mere thought of filming As You Like It brings to Garai’s face is electric. If this differs from what we've written on the calendar, please bear with us, as those prices will update soon. Are you missing theatre as much as we are? Not only has she starred in hit film Atonement, she has also spent much of 2007 touring the world with the Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Seagull and King Lear, productions which have recently opened at the New London. As an interviewer, this is a challenge; an exciting, intimidating, refreshing challenge. Were it not for the fact that Romola Garai has spent much of her formative years in the acting profession building a significant number of credible credits, 2007 would be considered her breakthrough year. I try and do things that I think will be interesting. br />MA. |  When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. She talks knowledgably and directly, and is more than ready to enter into a debate if she thinks you are in the wrong. If you click through to seat selection (where you'll see either best available or a seating plan), you will be seeing the most up-to-date prices. Carey Perloff’s animated production marks the New York debut of British film and television star Romola Garai and brings theater legend Rosemary Harris back to our local stages. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, (2014 - Looking for something to watch? As an actress she is known for her performances in films such as Atonement (2007), Angel (2007), I Capture the Castle (2003) and (Suffragette). “I don’t think I realised at the time how much I was changing my life really,” she admits. Romola's paternal great-grandfather, Bernhard "Bert" Garai, was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who founded the Keystone Press Agency in London in 1924. “I do have to sort of get off stage at the end of the night and say ‘pull yourself together’, and get on with life,” Garai admits, before once more playing down her own abilities. She has a worldly-wise head on young shoulders, a real desire to commit herself to an industry she clearly adores, and an understanding of that industry that doesn’t gloss over its hidden pitfalls. First Published In the meantime stay safe and healthy. It's taken me a while to realize it takes a lot to be a good actor, and you have to respect the craft. We’d like to thank everyone who has been patient and kind in dealing with their ticket providers so far and we are sorry that we cannot process your order as quickly as we would like. I feel that it's important to fail now and again. Matthew Amer met the extremely busy actress. It is not that she doesn’t like being interviewed, she assures me, but that she doesn’t think she is as good an interviewee as she is an actress. Who can run the fastest from here to here? If you do a lot of period drama, those female characters, nine times out of 10, are going to represent all the good in the world. Was brought up in Hong Kong and Singapore until she was 10. And I know that for everybody that thinks I'm talented and promising, there is somebody out there that thinks that I'm s***! “It’s like this animal transformation that he goes through,” she says of McKellen morphing into the misguided Shakespearean king. - IMDb Mini Biography By: “I’m sure some actors are so used to doing it and so accomplished that they can turn it on and off, and it just becomes a tap, but that’s not the case with me.”, Garai’s CV is packed with quality pieces, yet talk of integrity in her project choices is met not with resounding approval, but with a cynicism about the idea as a whole. As a director her work includes the Sundance Best International Short Film nominated Scrubber. How someone so confident, eloquent and well-mannered can have such a low estimation about their ability to hold an interesting conversation, I don’t know, but Garai does not think she gives a good interview. 18 April 2008. The single biggest surprise about acting is how unsexy the lead actors can be when you work with them. Romola Garai, Other Works Please do not contact your credit card company as that will slow the process down and put an additional burden on our box office and ticket agent teams. Please check with the individual shows for details. Her two oldest siblings Ralph and Rosie were adopted as babies before she and her sister were born. As she is currently – while touring the world with the RSC – studying for a degree in English Literature, the spare 90 minutes is often put to good academic use, which has drawn raised eyebrows of Roger Moore-ian proportions among the company: “Everyone just thinks I’m a bit of a freak really,” she smiles, “because every time they see me I’m reading a book like ‘Realism’ or ‘The Beginnings of Post-Colonial Thought’, so I always look a complete nerd.”, If I didn’t know that she was currently starring opposite McKellen and Frances Barber, if I didn’t know that she has a lead role in one of the biggest movie releases of the year, and if we were chatting in a student union bar rather than the cacophonous surrounds of the New London foyer, in her big beige jumper, casual jeans and natural make up, Garai could be any other English student discussing her current coursework. [on playing Nina in "The Seagull"] It's very distressing doing that journey every night, and I have to do whatever I can not to get upset. ROMOLA GARAI Date of Birth: August 6, 1982 Born in London, Romola Garai lived in Hong Kong and Singapore before her family settled back in England when she was nine. She had no professional dancing experience before arriving on the set of. How can it not be? Please bear with us as we try to keep this page as up to date as possible. [on the Olympics] I do think the Olympics are a curiously male obsession. Publicity Listings It is the first time that Garai has embarked on such a committed theatrical engagement, dominating an entire year of her working life and taking her away from home for vast swathes of time. Without the experience, she explains, of working with “Mr Shakespeare” (Branagh), she may not have had the confidence to audition for Nunn and the RSC. It's just a bit sniffy to turn up your nose at it. “Sometimes I get it right in terms of the fact that people like it and sometimes I get it wrong in terms of the fact that people don’t like it, but I always try and do jobs which I think will be interesting to me and will help me improve as an actor.”. Throughout the interview Garai is happy, genial and thoroughly amiable, but is never afraid to give an honest and intelligent answer. It's too simplistic to say that people start to believe what's written about them. Though, before her RSC sojourn, Garai had a number of television and film credits to her name – The Last Of The Blonde Bombshells, Daniel Deronda, Vanity Fair, Inside I’m Dancing – theatre was relatively new to her, with Calico her only professional engagement. However, we want to reassure you that you will be contacted, and your order will be processed, but please do bear with us. Official Sites, She was at university studying English Literature. In January 2008, Romola visited the Syrian-Iraqi border to make a short film called 'No Man's Land' for UNHCR about the 800 Palestinian refugees living in Al Tanaf refugee camp, who have been displaced since the Iraq war. As an actress she is known for her performances in films such as Atonement (2007), Angel (2007), I Capture the Castle (2003) and (Suffragette). But costume drama is a large part of the work in this country. If you have booked via a ticket agent they will also be in contact with you directly. Real hair color is blonde but she occasionally dyes it in real life and for movie roles. Who gives? [on playing Angel Deverell] I think the main challenge is that she's essentially a pretty unattractive person in many ways but you have to approach a character like that believing in them, liking them, trying to understand them and appreciating what their world view is, and so I think that was a challenge occasionally because she wasn't always an easy character to like. Some of my closest friends are the children of refugees and I have always been fascinated by their stories and the struggle of how they came to the UK and assimilated into society. Finishing her degree in English Literature from Queen Mary, University of London (2008). “I knew that I needed to improve in this medium,” she explains, “and I think the only way you really improve is by doing it and I hope that over the course of a year of consistently performing I would get better and certainly achieve more technically.” It was also somewhat of a draw that Garai’s character in The Seagull, Nina, had been at the very top of her ‘roles I want to play’ list, though she shies away from suggesting she is finished with the part just yet: “I don’t think I’ve done the definitive version,” she laughs. Support us now by buying, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’s return from 28 November, Virtual livestreamed “Tour” of The Snail And The Whale this half-term, The countdown is on to the 2020 Black British Theatre Awards, TKTS On-The-Day tickets available from this weekend, Further details announced ahead of the Olivier Awards 2020 with Mastercard, Upcoming and rescheduled performances across the UK, Due to the current pandemic various venues and productions are making announcements for their individual shows. And I think that's a terrible, pernicious thing. If you have booked directly with the theatre or show website for an affected performance, please be assured that they will contact you directly to arrange an exchange for a later date, a credit note/voucher or a refund.