Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Maria Hall is a British-American actress. In 2003, she won the Ian Charleson Award for her debut stage performance in a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession. She has appeared in the films The Prestige, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Town, Frost/Nixon, Iron Man 3, Transcendence, and The Gift...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth19 May 1982
telling-stories sound stories
It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.
people playlists nerdy
I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.
people awful repressed
I've played an awful lot of repressed people.
months sometimes instinct
Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.
cooks lentils i-can
Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.
good-friend childhood parent
My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.
detroit mum
My mum's American. She's from Detroit.
kids thinking play
I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.
sane
No family is sane, is it?
drama periods avoiding
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
kids film grew
I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.
teenager pretentious
I was a really pretentious teenager,
people over-it versions
There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.
dream thinking forever
I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think they're both very important. I love both. And in my dream world, I'd get to do both forever.