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RADA-trained Sally Hawkins received the Berlin Film Festival's Best Actress Award for her third collaboration with Mike Leigh, appearing in the starring role in Happy-Go- Lucky. She made her film debut as Samantha in Leigh's All or Nothing and also appeared in the director's Oscar-nominated Vera Drake. Additional feature film credits include Matthew Vaughan's Layer Cake, John Curran's The Painted Veil, Tom Shankland's Waz and most recently, Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream.

On television, her performance as Anne Elliott in the ITV production of Jane Austen's Persuasion won the Golden Nymph Award for Best Actress at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in 2007. Other television credits include leading roles in Simon Curtis's adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's 20,000 Streets Under the Sky; Tipping the Velvet; Byron, in which she played Mary Shelley; The Young Visitors, directed by David Yates, in which she starred opposite Jim Broadbent; Fingersmith; and two series of Little Britain. She recently played the leading role in Marc Munden's Shiny, Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart for the BBC.

Notable London stage appearances include Howard Davies's production of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre, and Ian Rickson's production of Jez Butterworth's The Winterling at the Royal Court.