Sally Cecilia Hawkins (born 1976) is an English actress of stage and screen. She began her career on stage and then moved into film, for which she has received several accolades including a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards.
After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she started her career as a stage actress in productions such as Romeo and Juliet (playing Juliet), Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her first major role was in Mike Leigh's All or Nothing in 2002. She continued working with Leigh, appearing in a supporting role in Vera Drake (2004) and taking the lead in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), for which she won several awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the Silver Bear for Best Actress.
Hawkins appeared in two Woody Allen films, Cassandra's Dream (2007) and Blue Jasmine (2013); for the latter, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to play lead roles in Made in Dagenham (2010), Paddington (2014), Maudie (2016), and Paddington 2 (2017), and appeared in Godzilla (2014), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Wonka (2023). For starring as Elisa Esposito, a mute cleaning woman in the fantasy film The Shape of Water (2017), she earned critical acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
She has also appeared in stage productions with the Royal Court Theatre in London, and in 2010 made her Broadway debut in Mrs. Warren's Profession. In 2012 she starred in Constellations at the Royal Court Theatre, which later moved to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End. On television, she appeared in the BBC adaptations of Tipping the Velvet (2002) as Zena Blake, and Fingersmith (2005) as Sue Trinder. She also appeared as Anne Elliot in Persuasion (2007), ITV's adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. In 2025, Hawkins appeared in Bring Her Back, an Australian supernatural horror film directed by Danny and Michael Philippou.
Läs mer...Den 27 april 1976 var en tisdag under stjärntecknet ♉. Det var 117 e dagen i året. Förenta staternas president var Gerald R. Ford.
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Date: 28 April 1976
By BEN A. FRANKLIN Special to The New York Times
Ben FRANKLIN
financially distressed Washington Star and 10 unions agree to eliminate 200 jobs, impose 8-mo wage freeze and save about $6-million a yr; publisher Joe L Albritton says he will inject $6-million in new capital in paper (M)
Date: 27 April 1976
London News of the World to raise price to 9 pence and London Observer to raise price to 15 pence (S)
Date: 27 April 1976
Rhodesian Govt on Apr 26 announces immediate censorship of press, radio and TV to combat what it says are intense psychological pressures directed against country; sets up natl security com to control news reaching Rhodesian public; bans can be served on Rhodesia Broadcasting Corp, local publications and on Rhodesia TV (S)
Date: 27 April 1976
By Russell Baker
Russell Baker
R Baker humorous comment on Barbara Walters breaking the million-dollar-a-yr salary barrier which has kept journalists economically depressed for so long
Date: 27 April 1976
By DAVID E.ROSENBAUM Special to The New York Times
David ROSENBAUM
Sen Select Com on Apr 26 discloses that CIA plans to continue to employ as agents more than 25 journalists or other reprs of Amer news orgns; says those persons are not covered by public pledge made in Feb by CIA Dir George Bush that agency would stop hiring correspondents 'accredited' by Amer publications and other news orgns; com staff member repts that many of individuals were in exec positions at Amer news orgns; panel recommends enactment of law precluding agency's 'operational use' of any person regularly involved in writing, editing or setting policy for US news orgns; says it is concerned that use of Amer journalists and media orgns for clandestine operations is threat to press integrity; rept cites instances in which efforts of CIA agents acting abroad as journalists were printed in domestic publications; says it is aware other countries made use of 'internatl media' for propaganda and that US public is not insulated from such efforts (M)
Date: 28 April 1976
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston article on rept by Sen Select Com on Intelligence Activities on CIA activities; says rept casts doubt on operations of all media, religious and acad reprs abroad, without giving their insts opportunity of defending themselves against corruption of their work; says distinction should be made between normal contacts by reporters with CIA agents and using reporters as paid CIA agents; says it is troubling that Pres Ford does not issue order to CIA to stop this practice (M)
Date: 27 April 1976
By A.H. Raskin
A. Raskin
A H Raskin scores as 'fiction' idea that munic labor relations are private game to be played in closed rooms by a 'little cabal of city officials, union leaders and professional experts'; notes NYC legis being drawn up that would require that after next Jan 1 the full terms of all new collective bargaining agreements be published in City Record
Date: 27 April 1976
article on Grechko focuses on his contribution to Soviet mil system; illus (L)