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Romola Garai

Category: Music
Duration: 00:48:44
Publish Date: 2025-04-20 11:01:00
Description:

Romola Garai won her first professional acting roles as a teenager, and since then, her career has taken her in a wide range of dramatic directions.

Most recently, she won a 2025 Olivier Award for her role in The Years, a sometimes shocking play based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux – and she was competing against herself, with a nomination in the same category for her part in Giant, a play about Roald Dahl.

Her previous stage work includes playing Cordelia opposite Ian McKellen’s King Lear, and her extensive screen credits include the title role in a BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. She also won acclaim for The Hour, a drama set behind the scenes of a TV current affairs programme in the 1950s. In 2020, she went behind the camera to write and direct a horror film called Amulet.

Romola's music choices include John Taverner, Handel and Keith Jarrett.

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