Hattie Morahan

Hattie Morahan (born 1979) is an award-winning English actress.

Background

Morahan is the daughter of director Christopher Morahan and actress Anna Carteret. She was educated at Frensham Heights School and New Hall, Cambridge, graduating with an English degree.

While at Cambridge, she directed and appeared in student productions, including A View from the Bridge which won her 'the most outstanding performance' award at the 1999 National Student Drama Festival for her role as Catherine. Her undergraduate work at the ADC Theatre 1997-2000 is listed at [1].

Career

She made her professional debut at the age of 17, playing the leading role of Una Gwithian in a two-part BBC television adaptation of The Peacock Spring (1996).

Morahan joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2001, making her theatre debut at Stratford upon Avon in Love in a Wood and her London debut at the Barbican Theatre in December 2001 in Hamlet. Other credits for the company included Night of the Soul and Prisoner's Dilemma.

At the Tricycle Theatre in March 2004 she played Ruby, a Sixties hippie who becomes a disenchanted Eighties political wife, for the Oxford Stage company revival of Peter Flannery's Singer. In the same year she first worked with Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre when she starred in the title role of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis.

In July 2005 she appeared again at the National in Nick Dear's Power, staged in the Cottesloe Theatre, and also won acclaim at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in September 2005 playing Viola in Ian Brown's production of Twelfth Night. Stage review [2].

In 2006 she played the leading role of Penelope Toop in Douglas Hodge's touring revival of Philip King's hit farce See How They Run [3]. In the same year, for her performance as Nina in Katie Mitchell's staging of Chekhov's The Seagull at the National Theatre in June 2006. She was awarded second prize in the Ian Charleson Awards 2007.

TV credits include Bodies and BBC One's Outnumbered

In January 2008, she appeared in the film The Bank Job and played a mounted policewoman in the ITV comedy drama Bike Squad. Giving a career enhancing performance, she also played Elinor Dashwood in the BBC One three-part adaptation by Andrew Davies of Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility, first broadcast on New Year's Day 2008. "Hattie Morahan's Elinor is as good a piece of acting as you're going to see this year," wrote Christopher Hart, Sunday Times Sunday 13th January, 2008.

On 26 February 2008, she played Libby, a graduate investigating mis-selling of bank loans, in D J Britton's radio play When Greed Becomes Fear, a BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play 'inspired by the current sub-prime lending fiasco in America'.

She makes her Royal Court debut, working again with director Katie Mitchell and co-starring with Benedict Cumberbatch, in The City, a new, darkly comic mystery play by Martin Crimp, opening to previews on 24 April 2008. Later in the year she'll return to the National to appear in ...some trace of her', an adaptation of Dosteovsky's The Idiot.

Credits

Year	Format	Title	Role	Notes
1996	TV	The Peacock Spring	Una Gwithian
2001	Theatre	Love In A Wood	Lucy	RSC
		Hamlet	Gentlewoman player
		The Prisoner's Dilemma	Emilia
2002		Night of the Soul	Tracy
		The Circle	Elizabeth	UK tour
	Short Film	Too Close To The Bone
2003	Theatre	Arsenic and Old Lace	Elaine	Strand Theatre
		Power	Louise de la Valliere	Cottesloe Theatre
2004	Short Film	Out of Time	Receptionist
	Theatre	Singer	Ruby	UK tour
	TV	New Tricks	Totty	guest star
	Theatre	Iphigenia at Aulis	Iphigenia	Lyttelton Theatre
2005		Twelfth Night	Viola	West Yorkshire Playhouse
	TV	Bodies	Beth Lucas
2006	Radio	Trevor's World of Sport	Carrie	guest star
	Theatre	See How They Run	Penelope	UK tour
		The Seagull	Nina	Olivier Theatre
2007	TV	Outnumbered	Jane	guest star
	Film	The Golden Compass	Nurse Clara
2008	TV	Sense and Sensibility	Elinor Dashwood
		Bike Squad	WPC Julie Cardigan
		Trial & Retribution: To Kill A King	Sally Lawson
	Film	The Bank Job	Gale Benson

References

Theatre Record and its annual Indexes Vorlage:Reflist

External links

• Vorlage:Imdb name
• Hattie Morahan Website[4]
• Dictionary of the RSC: Hattie Morahan [5]
• Seagull Reviews[6]
• Iphigenia Reviews[7]