Celebrity Biographies
Romola Garai
It is not a hyper recognizable face. She has starred in a television series, Emma , but people haven’t signed her yet, and she can continue to trace a reasonable career, of movies, series and plays that may be better or worse, but that offer undeniable interest.
Romola Sadie Garai was born in Hong Kong on August 6, 1982, that is, when the city was still a British colony. The profession of her parents, he a banker, she a journalist, can explain her coming into the world in this cosmopolitan city. Or her original given name, the feminine of Romulus, the name of one of the twins who gave the city of Rome its name for her contribution to creating the city and what came after. As for her peculiar last name, let’s say that she is of Hungarian origin.
The middle of three sisters, her childhood is spent between Hong Kong and Singapore, until the family moves to Wiltshire in England. She, having seen so much of the world, is not surprised that at the age of sixteen she became independent from her and went to London to complete her studies. There she discovers her passion for acting and she joins the National Youth Theater taking part in several plays. An agent of hers discovers her, and gives her her first television role in 2000, the youthful version of Judi Dench ‘s character in The Last Blonde Bombshells .
He will continue doing TV, until in 2002 he makes his film debut with the Dickensian film The Legend of Nicholas Nickleby . Literature adapted for the screen calls for it, as we will also see it in the romantic drama The Dreaming Castle (2003), and in the version of William Thackeray ‘s work Vanity Fair (2004). After dancing in the mediocre Dirty Dancing 2 (2004), it is curious that that same year he coincided with James McAvoy in the discreet I dance inside , because two years later they both have a great movie, Atonement , based on the novel by Ian McEwan , where Directed by Joe Wright. Shakespeare with Kenneth Branagh – As You Like It (2006) – and the television series according to Jane Austen Emma (series) , where she is the protagonist, prove that her literary background helps her to give great performances.
We saw her with Woody Allen in the funny journalistic incident Scoop (2006), and more serious was her contribution to the portrait of one of the great English abolitionists in Amazing Grace , of the same year. His work with Antonio Banderas in a drama about adultery Crónica de un engaño (2008) was not great, due to the film itself, and in Angel , directed by French François Ozon (2007), he immersed himself in a very romantic plot that has his point.
For a few years he seems to take a break from film and focuses on theater, acting for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and Chekhov’s “The Seagull”. With One Day (Always the same day) he has gone on to shoot with a Danish woman, Lone Scherfig , in an original but uneven story, where she is a conventional wife who ends up cheating on her husband.
Little is known about Garai’s private life, which she keeps to herself with a blunt argument: if you put yourself out there, you end up trying to please people, giving them what you think they want; and it’s not you anymore