Romola Garai
Romola Garai
Romola Sadie Garaiis an English actress, writer, director. She is known for appearing in the films Amazing Grace, Atonement, and Glorious 39, and in BBC series such as Emma, The Hour and The Crimson Petal and the White. She has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award and is BAFTA nominated...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth6 August 1982
CityHong Kong, China
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There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.
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I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.
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Someone like David Tennant is able to embrace people's love for 'Doctor Who' in a totally positive way. I have huge admiration for people who are able to do that.
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I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.
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I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.
I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant.
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When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.
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The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.
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I love my home, spend as much time in London as I can, and try wherever possible to avoid travelling for work. Sometimes I think I'm really badly equipped to be an actress.
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I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.
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Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.
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I was 20 years old when, despite mass protests against military action, Iraq was invaded in 2003 - it didn't make for motivated political participation, I can tell you.
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If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
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If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.