Sally Hawkins Biography

Name : Sally Hawkins

Date of Birth : 27 April 1976, Dulwich, London, England, UK

Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m)

Occupation : Actress

The daughter of Jacqui and Colin Hawkins, authors and illustrators of children's books, Hawkins was brought up in Blackheath in southeast London, and attended James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1998.

Subsequent film roles were sporadic for Hawkins during this period, though television provided her with steady work in dramas like "Tipping the Velvet" (BBC, 2002) and "Byron" (2003), for which she played Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. Thanks to roles such as these and others, Hawkins began to gain a reputation as the go-to actress for female characters in distress, though she showed a particular knack for comedy as a guest star on the popular series "Little Britain" (BBC One, 2003-06) and as both a writer and performer for the BBC Radio Four series "Concrete Cow."

By the following year, international audiences were getting their first look at Hawkins through several British-lensed features. She co-starred with Naomi Watts and Edward Norton in "The Painted Veil" (2006) before taking a smaller role as a serial killer's victim in "The Killing Gene" (2007), a dark thriller with Stellan Skarsgaard and Selma Blair.