Welcome to the HOLLYWOOD HALL OF FAME AWARDS™ 2008 inductees. We hope you enjoy your visit.
HOLLYWOOD STAR AWARDS®
SALLY HAWKINS
HOLLYWOOD BREAKTHROUGH ACTRESS AWARD™ HONOREE
SALLY HAWKINS' BIOGRAPHY
"Happy-Go-Lucky" marks RADA-trained Sally Hawkins' third collaboration with Mike Leigh. She made her film debut as Samantha in "All or Nothing," and was then seen as Susan in "Vera Drake." Other film roles include Matthew Vaughan's "Layer Cake," Tom Shankland's "Waz," and most recently, Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream." She has just completed Sherry Horman's "Desert Flower" and Lone Scherfig's "An Education," both to be released in 2009.
Her performance as Anne Elliott in the recent ITV production of Jane Austen's "Persuasion" won the Golden Nymph Award for Best Actress at the Monte Carlo Television Festival 2007 and the Royal Television Society Best Actress Award. 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 Visiters," directed by David Yates, in which she starred opposite Jim Broadbent, "Fingersmith," and two series of "Little Britain," as the recurring character Cathy. She recently played the leading role in "Shiny, Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart" for the BBC, directed by Marc Munden.
Notable stage appearances include Howard Davies's production of Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba" at London's National Theatre, and Ian Rickson's production of Jez Butterworth's "The Winterling" at the Royal Court.
