Rebecca Hall
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Hall at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival
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3 May 1982 London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse(s) | Morgan Spector (m. 2015) |
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Rebecca Maria Hall (born 3 May 1982) is an English-American actress. In 2003, she won the Ian Charleson Award for her debut stage performance in a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession. She has appeared in the films The Prestige, Vicky Cristina Barcelona (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe), The Town, The Awakening, Frost/Nixon, Iron Man 3, Transcendence, and The Gift. In 2016, Hall portrayed the troubled news anchor Christine Chubbuck in the critically acclaimed drama Christine.
In June 2010, Hall won the Supporting Actress BAFTA for her portrayal of Paula Garland in the 2009 Channel 4 production Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974. She was also nominated for the Leading Actress Television BAFTA in 2013 for her role as socialite Sylvia Tietjens in BBC Two's Parade's End, opposite Benedict Cumberbatch.
Hall was born on 3 May 1982 in London, the daughter of English stage director and Royal Shakespeare Company founder Peter Hall and American opera singer Maria Ewing. Her mother is of African American, Dutch, Scottish, and Sioux origin. Her parents separated when she was still young, eventually divorcing in 1990. Hall has five half-siblings: stage director Edward Hall, producer Christopher Hall, actresses Jennifer Caron Hall and Emma Hall, and set designer Lucy Hall. Christopher and Jennifer are Peter Hall's children with his first wife, French actress Leslie Caron.
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