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Sally Hawkins

Sally Hawkins
B 04.27.1976 [London, UK] to Jacqui and Colin Hawkins, authors & illustrators of children's books, attended James Allen Girls' School, graduated Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts [London, UK] [1998],

1940s b/w movie-fan. enjoys painting.



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Sally Hawkins - what members say


  • Fingersmith
  • Fingersmith review by Em1981 from London
    Rated - 3.5 stars Fingersmith good 15 August 2010
    ...hed this because I have seen tipping the velvet and like the writer, and I like Sally Hawkins, it was a very good watch but tipping the velvet is better (I mean the film not...   Read customer review
  • Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky
  • Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky review by from Leicester, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Lost love in the dreary backstreets of London 16 January 2006
    ...nrequited love for Bob and her dismay at the advances by the creepy Mr Eccles. Sally Hawkins plays the role fantastically, infusing real depth into the character. A very s...   Read customer review
  • Persuasion
  • Persuasion review by A customer from Caldy, Wirral
    Rated - 4.0 stars Good but not the best adaptation. 2 April 2007
    ...On the whole really enjoyable. Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry Jones were delightful - very good in their respective roles. However, as a stand alone film, it lacks the subst...   Read customer review

Sally Hawkins - filmography


  • Love Birds on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Rhys Darby,  Sally Hawkins,  Faye Smythe
    Director: Paul Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Doug (Rhys Darby) thinks he has the perfect life and is stunned when long term girlfriend Susan (Faye Smythe) dumps him. He finds an injured duck and reluctantly decides to nurse it better until such time as a new home can be found for it. The task gives him new found motivation and propels Doug ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 164 members
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  • Submarine on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Sally Hawkins,  Paddy Considine,  Noah Taylor
    Director: Richard Ayoade
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Producers Warp Films (This Is England, Four Lions) and director Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) present a comedy which follows a 15-year old boy (Craig Roberts, Jane Eyre) with two objectives: to lose his virginity to the girl of his dreams before his next birthday, and to stop his mother (Sally ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 17,452 members
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  • Made in Dagenham on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Sally Hawkins,  Rosamund Pike,  Andrea Riseborough
    Director: Nigel Cole
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As produced by heavyweight Stephen Woolley (THE CRYING GAME) and headlined by Sally Hawkins (HAPPY-GO-LUCKY) and Bob Hoskins (THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY), this docudrama brings to life a pivotal event from British history. In 1968, women's rights took a broad leap forward when workers at the Ford ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 24,602 members
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  • Never Let Me Go - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Keira Knightley,  Carey Mulligan,  Andrew Garfield
    Director: Mark Romanek
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    As children, Ruth (Knightley), Kathy (Mulligan) and Tommy (Garfield), spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 140 members
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  • Never Let Me Go on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Keira Knightley,  Carey Mulligan,  Andrew Garfield
    Director: Mark Romanek
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    As children, Ruth (Knightley), Kathy (Mulligan) and Tommy (Garfield), spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 22,152 members
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  • Submarine - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Sally Hawkins,  Paddy Considine,  Noah Taylor
    Director: Richard Ayoade
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Producers Warp Films (This Is England, Four Lions) and director Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) present a comedy which follows a 15-year old boy (Craig Roberts, Jane Eyre) with two objectives: to lose his virginity to the girl of his dreams before his next birthday, and to stop his mother (Sally ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,940 members
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  • Made in Dagenham - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Sally Hawkins,  Rosamund Pike,  Andrea Riseborough
    Director: Nigel Cole
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As produced by heavyweight Stephen Woolley (THE CRYING GAME) and headlined by Sally Hawkins (HAPPY-GO-LUCKY) and Bob Hoskins (THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY), this docudrama brings to life a pivotal event from British history. In 1968, women's rights took a broad leap forward when workers at the Ford ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 97 members
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  • Happy Ever Afters on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Sally Hawkins,  Tom Riley,  Sinead Maguire
    Director: Stephen Burke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Sometimes the happiest day of all can be the most heartbreaking. Freddie (Tom Riley) and Maura (Sally Hawkins) are getting married, only not to each other. While Freddie is entering his second marriage with the neurotic Sophie (Jade Yourell), Maura's motives for marrying Wilson (Ariyon Bakare) are ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 707 members
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  • An Education on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Peter Sarsgaard,  Carey Mulligan,  Alfred Molina
    Director: Lone Scherfig
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A suburban London teen finds her traditional education replaced by something slightly more sinister when an older, more worldly suitor sweeps her off of her feet while placing her future in jeopardy. London, 1961: 16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is smart, attractive, and eager to start her adult ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 44,129 members
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  • Desert Flower (2009)
    Starring: Liya Kebede,  Sally Hawkins,  Craig Parkinson
    Director: Sherry Horman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against circumcision.
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 12 members
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  • An Education - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Emma Thompson,  Rosamund Pike,  Dominic Cooper
    Director: Lone Scherfig
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny is poised on the brink of womanhood. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. One rainy day, her suburban life is upended by the arrival of an unsuitable suitor, 30- ish David. Urbane and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 7,755 members
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  • Happy-Go-Lucky on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Sally Hawkins,  Eddie Marsan,  Nonso Anozie
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is a 30-year-old Londoner with a bright outlook on life. She loves her job, she loves her friends, she loves her freedom. Mike Leigh's film follows her over a few weeks one spring as she learns to drive and embarks on a new romance.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 22,793 members
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  • Persuasion on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Sally Hawkins,  Rupert Penry-Jones,  Alice Krige
    Director: Adrian Shergold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A new adaptation of one of Jane Austen's most admired novels - the story of a woman who gets a second chance. Anne fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne's family were against the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 8,307 members
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  • Persuasion - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Sally Hawkins,  Rupert Penry-Jones,  Alice Krige
    Director: Adrian Shergold
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Though she refuses Captain Wentworth (Rupert Penry-Jones) in her youth, Anne Elliot's (Sally Hawkins) love for her handsome but penniless suitor never dies. When he returns eight years later--a wealthy and high-ranking naval officer--she has the chance to set things right. While the two leads ably ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 137 members
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  • Cassandra's Dream on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Colin Farrell,  Tom Wilkinson
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Woody Allen wrote and directed this London-set feature, a modern noir with black comic trimmings. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor play working class brothers who dream of better things than their respective mechanic and restaurant jobs. Hard-drinking Terry (Farrell) has a weakness for gambling, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 6,146 members
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  • Fingersmith on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Elaine Cassidy,  Sally Hawkins,  Rupert Evans
    Director: Aisling Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A BBC adaptation of Sarah Water's best selling novel about love, treachery in old England. It tells the story of two young women, one passion, mutual betrayal and final retribution. Petty thief Sue Tinder (Sally Hawkins) is enlisted by conman Richard Rivers (Rupert Evans) in an elaborate scam to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 5,432 members
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  • Layer Cake - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Daniel Craig,  Kenneth Cranham,  Dexter Fletcher
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 3,547 members
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  • Layer Cake on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Daniel Craig,  Tom Hardy,  Jamie Foreman
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 74,194 members
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Sally Hawkins facts

5 most recent films

Love Birds - 3.0 stars
Submarine - 3.5 stars
Made in Dagenham - 4.0 stars
Never Let Me Go - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Never Let Me Go - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Made in Dagenham - 4.0 stars
Layer Cake - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
An Education - 3.5 stars
Made in Dagenham - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
An Education - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky - HD - 3.0 stars
Desert Flower - 4.0 stars
Cassandra's Dream - 2.5 stars
Happy Ever Afters - 2.5 stars
Love Birds - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Andrea Riseborough - 4 times - show films
Rosamund Pike - 4 times - show films
Carey Mulligan - 4 times - show films
Noah Taylor - 3 times - show films
Gemma Chan - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Nigel Cole - 3 times - show films
Simon Curtis - 3 times - show films
Richard Ayoade - 3 times - show films
Lone Scherfig - 2 times - show films
Matthew Vaughn - 2 times - show films