Rebecca Hall

Birth Name: Rebecca Maria Hall

Nickname/Stage Name: Rebecca Hall

Birth Date: May 3, 1982

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Sci-fi

Occupation(s): Actress

Years Active: 1992 till Present

Net Worth: $7 million

 

Personal Life

Rebecca Hall was born in London to an African-American mother and an English father. Her close tie with director Sam Mendes was the subject of intense media scrutiny in 2010. Their relationship started in 2011 and ended in 2013. The filmmaker was married to actress Kate Winslet at the time.

She met actor Morgan Spector in 2014 and they got married in 2015. They announced that they were expecting a child together in 2018.

Education

Hall attended Roedean School and studied English Literature at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, dropping out in 2002 just before her final year.

Career

The actress got her first professional role in 1992 in her father's TV adaptation of The Camomile Lawn. Her feature film debut was in Starter for Ten.

Her breakthrough role was in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige (2006). She became more popular after starring in the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008).

She featured opposite Ben Affleck in the crime drama The Town (2010) and subsequently seen in the MCU movie Iron Man 3 (2013).

Hall was among the main cast in the 2021 monster movie Godzilla vs. Kong.

Awards

Gotham Award (2008)

BAFTA Award (2010)

Independent Spirit Award (2010)

San Diego Film Critics Society Award (2010)

National Board of Review Award (2010)

Chicago International Film Festival Award (2016)

Women Film Critics Circle Award (2016)

Quotes

"If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline."

"I don't like talking about myself if I'm honest."

"I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level."

Trivia

Her father, Peter Hall, was a theatre director who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company.

She grew to her present height of 5'10 when she was 11 years old.

Has dual citizenship in the U.S. and the U.K.

Movies

Starter for 10 (2006)

Frost/Nixon (2008)

The Town (2010)

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Transcendence (2014)

The BFG (2016)

A Rainy Day in New York (2018)

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)