Holliday Grainger
Holliday Grainger
Holliday Clark Grainger, also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles include Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias and Estella in Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth27 March 1988
CityManchester, England
ballet gymnastics money mum
When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.
dramatic element family good historical interested love people quite stick watching
'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.
acting admitted basically open studying taking threw time year
I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.
period shot
When I was younger, I was always being told I had a period face, but 'Bel Ami' was my first shot at it.
The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.
build quite scenes sure
Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.
jack
Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls.
massive
It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.
crush developing michael
I'm developing a little crush on Michael Fassbender. Really unoriginal.
I'd like to continue acting as long as I enjoy it.
I don't really have any strategy for my career.
I auditioned for a musical, and I can't sing. It was a kid's film musical, not a stage show, so I thought I could get away with it.
guess split splitting tiny trauma
I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.
might
You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.