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Rachel Hurd Wood Biography, Age, Husband, Son, Interview, Movies & TV Shows
BIOGRAPHY OF RACHEL HURD WOOD
Rachel Hurd Wood born Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood is an English actress and model born August 17, 1990 in Streatham, United Kingdom. She is known for her role as Wendy Darling in the movie “Peter Pan”.
She studied at Rodborough Technology College in Milford, Surrey from 2001 to 2006 for her GCSEs with art, English literature, psychology and philosophy as subjects. She took lessons while filming Peter Pan in Australia from 2002 to 2003, her work spanning a period of 8 to 9 months. Later, she attended Godalming College in Year Six from 2006 to 2008 to study for her GCE Advanced Levels with Art, Psychology and Philosophy as subjects.
Hurd-Wood had considered becoming a marine biologist because of his love for dolphins. She gave up on the idea when she found out she would have to study science because she thought she wasn’t very good at it. She became interested in working with children with special needs or disabilities. Hurd-Wood studied linguistics from 2008 at University College London, but left the course after a year before heading to Australia for the filming of Tomorrow, When the War Began, when she decided to focus entirely on her acting career.
RACHEL HURD WOOD AGE
She was born on August 17, 1990 in Streatham, United Kingdom. She turns 27 in 2018.
Photo by Rachel Hurd
RACHEL HURD WOOD FAMILY
Her parents are Philip, who is a screenwriter and voice actor, and Sarah Hurd-Wood. She has a brother, Patrick, who appeared with her in Peter Pan as one of the sleeping children in the “I Do Believe In Fairies” scene.
RACHEL HURD WOOD, HUSBAND | BUDDY
She got engaged to British musician Ben Westbeech in 2012. However, the couple have since separated. She is currently married to Russ Bain, she went public on November 19, 2017, via her Instagram page by posting a photo from her wedding. It was then announced that they were expecting their first child at the end of 2018. It was then announced on May 23, 2018 that she had given birth to a son Liam, who was born in Hampstead, London.
WOODEN MODEL BY RACHEL HURD
She posed for publicity and poster material for Volstead Putsch, an underground bohemian party organized by the Triumvirate of Fez at the Volstead Club in London in 2008. She also posed for Raw Riddim Records promoting their products such as chains, t-shirts, hoodies. same year.
RACHEL HURD WOODCAREER
Rachel Hurd Wood began her career in 2002 when she was cast as Wendy Darling, after her grandparents spotted a TV clip that said PJ Hogan was looking for a ‘young English rose’ for the feature film Peter Bang. She was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Young Actor and a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress.
Rachel Hurd Wood portrayed the character Imogen Helhoughton in the 2004 TV movie Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, as a 13-year-old victim of a serial killer. Also in 2004, she had a major role as Betsy Bell in the thriller An American Haunting, as a girl who is haunted and tormented by a relentless demon.
In 2005, she appeared in an adaptation of German writer Patrick Süskind’s bestselling novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Set in 18th century France, Hurd-Wood portrayed Laura Richis, the virgin, red-headed daughter of a politically connected merchant played by Alan Rickman. She had her brown hair dyed red. She was nominated for “Best Supporting Actress” at the 33rd Saturn Awards by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films for her role.
She starred as the babysitter in the 2011 teaser for a proposed feature film, Let’s Go Play at the Adams, based on the book of the same name by Mendal Johnson. She then played the role of the daughter of the character Teddy, in the short film It Ends Here, directed by her friend Zimon Drake.
In 2012, Rachel Hurd Wood-Wood played the female lead role of Elisabeth James in the film Highway to Dhampus, a story about the effect foreigners in Nepal and Nepalese expats have on the locals. Later that year, she narrated the words of her fashion designer friend, Matthew Williamson, in a commercial/mini-movie. She then starred alongside singers Tyler James and Kano in the music video for Tyler James’ single “Worry About You” (feat. Kano).
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RACHEL HURD WOOD MOVIES AND TV SHOWS
- 2003: Peter Pan
- 2004: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
- 2005: An American Haunting
- 2006: Perfume: A Murderer’s Story
- 2009: Dorian Gray
- 2009: Solomon Kane
- 2010: Tomorrow When The War Began
- 2011: Hideaways
- 2011: The Cartographer
- 2015-2016: Domestic fires
- 2015: Road to Dhampus
- Since 2017: Click
- 2017: Beautiful Devils
RACHEL HURD WOOD FRIENDS OF TLM
INTERVIEW WITH RACHEL HURDWOOD
Interviewer: How would you describe yourself to our readers?
Rachel Hurd Wood: I’m a young lady living in Camden. I’ve been an actor for 15 years and a writer forever, and now I’m thinking about changing careers…that’s the title, I guess.
Interviewer: How did you first get involved with The London Magazine?
Rachel Hurd Wood: I graduated from the Open University and took a creative writing course that [TLM editor] Steven O’Brien was tutoring. One of the things I had written, he absolutely tore it up – he was absolutely right to do it, I thought I had written this incredible collection of poetry and he disagreed! But another thing I wrote, he liked it, and I upped my game at that time, so he got in touch and that’s how I got involved with the magazine.
Interviewer: What inspired you to start writing?
Rachel Hurd Wood: I was thinking about it the other day, I think it was listening to Destiny’s Child when I was younger and I couldn’t relate to the lyrics of the song because I didn’t hadn’t been through all those love stories and situations. I felt increasingly frustrated with all these song lyrics that didn’t quite resonate because they didn’t reflect the experiences I was going through – we’re talking about an 8 or 9 year old kid. So I started writing to create my own thing that I was looking for.
Interviewer: You have written both poetry and essays for us, and I know you write short stories as well. Do you have a favorite form?
Rachel Hurd Wood: I love writing poems because the turnover is quick and it’s quite satisfying. I think having the economy of words is an interesting way to express yourself. I find that being able to distill ideas is quite satisfying. I don’t know how anyone writes novels or books, the idea is terrifying because it gives so much space. I feel less intimidated by 10 lines than by the number of lines in a book. I appreciate prose though, you have more freedom in how you tell the story, and you don’t have to be so particular. I guess the form you use depends on the feeling you are trying to convey.
Interviewer: What do you like to read?
Rachel Hurd Wood: I love anything written by women. I also love Charles Bukowski and tons of writers who have a comedic turn of phrase. In particular, it would just have to be Dorothy Parker who would be my all-time absolute heroine. The second I discovered her, I think it was her suicide poem [CV] that I read and it just sparked something. It was like finding your soul mate, that liveliness of finding a woman that summed up so much of the things I wanted to express in such a painfully hilarious way. I loaned his book to my friend and he said it was like “being tickled with heartache” which is such a perfect way to describe the effect his words have on me.
Interviewer: What is your favorite thing to read?
Rachel Hurd Wood: It would be a full three-way tie, if that’s allowed. Dorothy Parker’s short stories or collected poems, either of these two is a must. There’s another book that might be less classy, but I don’t care – it’s called Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan. Every time I read it, I cry laughing, it’s so funny, I don’t know why it’s not better known.
Interviewer: What are your best writing tips?
Rachel Hurd Wood: For people who have it but are reluctant to start, they tend to have this fear of failure or of not being perfect. There is no time for perfectionism, better to do something good and be done with it. You can always upgrade it later, so going out of your own way is the best thing to do. I get my head around things, but doing free writes is very helpful. Use this stream of consciousness when you feel a little stuck, and before you know it you’ve written a page and you don’t feel as discouraged about writing more and building on it.
Interviewer: You’ve lived in London most of your life – is there anywhere to go for inspiration?
Rachel Hurdwood:Out of London! I find thoughts come better when I can feel at peace, so London is pretty tough for that. For me, it’s always more a question of feelings. Sometimes if I’m in the tube and another passenger is pissing me off, it inspires a sense of rage and you’re like, “what could I use that as a metaphor for,” you know? But really, any kind of park is perfect. My friend gave me the key to a secret garden in Notting Hill, it’s one of those residential things I definitely shouldn’t have the key to, but I absolutely do and it’s so beautiful. Because the cities are made of synthetic materials, so everything is very quiet, when you sit in the park and watch the ants crawling or the wind blowing through the trees, everything calms down. It’s this whole thing in meditation where you have a riverbed and everything down there is swirled around, so when that settles down you can see very clearly and then the good old inspiration comes!
Interviewer: What’s next for you?
Rachel Hurd Wood: Honestly, I don’t know! My degree ends in May and I want to do more creative writing, but I don’t really know, everything seems very open to me. The writing, however, seems to be a lifeline. It’s quite nice to have a big catalog of old poems, journal entries, prose bits and stuff, going back to that and seeing your own thoughts is such a heartwarming thing. I think that’s the one constant that will always be there.