Hattie Morahan

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Hattie Morahan
Born	1979 London, England, UK
Years active	1996-present

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

Contents 1 Background 2 Career 3 Credits 4 References 5 External links

[edit] 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 [2].

She is engaged to the actor and director Blake Ritson with whom she has worked as script supervisor on three of his short films, also as costume designer and performer on Good Boy (2008). “He needs help behind the scenes." she told the Sunday Times. "I’m happy to supply it. I just like to get on with it.” ^[1]

[edit] 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 [3]. 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 [4].

In July 2005 she appeared again at the National in Nick Dear's Power, staged in the Cottesloe Theatre [5], and also won acclaim at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in September 2005 playing Viola in Ian Brown's production of Twelfth Night. Stage review [6].

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 [7]. In the same year, for her Olivier Theatre performance as Nina in Katie Mitchell's staging of Chekhov's The Seagull [8], she was awarded second prize in the Ian Charleson Awards 2007.

TV credits include Bodies and BBC One's Outnumbered^[2]

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 worked again with director Katie Mitchell, co-starring Benedict Cumberbatch in The City, a new, darkly comic mystery play by Martin Crimp, [9] 24 April-7 June, 2008 [10].

In July 2008 she will return to the National to appear in Katie Mitchell's adaptation of Dosteovsky's The Idiot, co-starring Ben Whishaw at the Cottesloe Theatre [11].

[edit] Credits

Year	Format	Title	Role	Notes
1996	TV	The Peacock Spring	Una Gwithian	BBC, director Christopher Morahan
2001	Theatre	Love In A Wood by William Wycherley	Lucy	RSC Swan Theatre, director Tim Supple
		Hamlet	Gentlewoman player	RSC Stratford and Barbican, director Steven Pimlott
		The Prisoner's Dilemma by David Edgar	Emilia	RSC The Other Place and The Pit, Barbican, director Michael Attenborough
2002		Night of the Soul by David Farr	Tracy	RSC The Pit, Barbican, director David Farr
		The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham	Elizabeth	UK tour, director Mark Rosenblatt
	Short Film	Too Close To The Bone
2003	Theatre	Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring	Elaine	Strand Theatre, 25 February-31 May, director Francis Matthews
		Power by Nick Dear	Louise de la Valliere	Cottesloe Theatre, 3 July-29 October, director Lindsay Posner
2004	Short Film	Out of Time	Receptionist
	Theatre	Singer by Peter Flannery	Ruby	Oxford Stage Company,UK tour, director Sean Holmes
	TV	New Tricks	Totty	guest star
	Theatre	Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis	Iphigenia	Lyttelton Theatre, 22 June-7 September, director Katie Mitchell
2005		Twelfth Night	Viola	West Yorkshire Playhouse, 21 September-22 October, director Ian Brown
	TV	Bodies	Beth Lucas
2006	Radio	Trevor's World of Sport	Carrie	guest star
	Theatre	See How They Run	Penelope Toop	UK tour, director Douglas Hodge
		The Seagull in a version by Martin Crimp	Nina	Olivier Theatre, 27 June-23 September, director Katie Mitchell
2007	TV	Outnumbered	Jane	guest star
	Film	The Golden Compass	Nurse Clara
2008	TV	Sense and Sensibility, adapted by Andrew Davies	Elinor Dashwood	BBC, director John Alexander
		Bike Squad	WPC Julie Cardigan
		Trial & Retribution: To Kill A King	Sally Lawson
	Film	The Bank Job	Gale Benson
2008	Theatre	The City by Martin Crimp	Clair	Royal Court Theatre, 24 April-7 June, director Katie Mitchell

[edit] References

Theatre Record and its annual Indexes

[edit] External links

• Hattie Morahan at the Internet Movie Database
• Hattie Morahan Website[12]
• Dictionary of the RSC: Hattie Morahan [13]
• Seagull Reviews[14]
• Iphigenia Reviews[15]
• We're just wild about Hattie, interview by Lesley White, Sunday Times: Culture 20 April, 2008 [16]