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Amelia Warner (born Amelia Catherine Bennett; 4 June 1982) is an English musician, composer, and former actress.

Early life

Warner was born Amelia Catherine Bennett in Birkenhead, Merseyside, the only child of actors Annette Ekblom and Alun Lewis.[1][2][3] Her paternal uncle is actor Hywel Bennett.

Career

Warner started her acting career as a member of the Royal Court's youth theatre group. She also starred in a 2000 BBC adaptation of Lorna Doone and has had supporting roles in films such as Æon Flux and Stoned.

In 2015, she self-released a classical instrumental EP, titled Arms. In 2016, Amelia began scoring films starting with Mum's List followed by Mary Shelley. In 2017, she released her second EP titled Visitors under her name, Amelia Warner.[4]

In 2018, Amelia Warner won the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Breakthrough Composer of the Year for her debut mainstream score on the film, Mary Shelley.

On 28 September 2020, Fearne Cotton announced that she was releasing "Happy Place", the album which features music from an array of artists that focus around mental health and well-being. The first single which was released on the same day as the announcement is the song "Lockdown Kittens Dancing" which features music by Amelia Warner which is taken from her song "For Love" off her "Haven" EP released in June 2020. In the same year she was invited to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Slow Moving Millie

Warner began her music career in July 2009, when she wrote and performed the song "Beasts" under the name Slow Moving Millie for a Virgin Media television commercial. The track was then released on 17 August 2009.[5] Her second single, "Rewind City" was also used for another advertisement, for Orange UK, and was directed by Ringan Ledwidge.[6] In October 2011, Warner signed a record deal with Island Records. Her cover version of the Smiths' 1984 B-Side "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" was released on 11 November 2011 and was selected as the soundtrack to the John Lewis 2011 Christmas advertisement. Since releasing her album, Renditions, she also composed music for adverts and short films. Her first major score was for the British short, Mam. Soon after, Warner released her Fyfe Dangerfield-produced EP, Arms, under Universal Music. Her second EP, Visitors. In 2016, she scored her first feature-length film, Mum's List, followed by score to the movie Mary Shelley.

Personal life

Warner married Colin Farrell in a non-legal ceremony in 2001; they ended the relationship four months later.[7][8] She married Jamie Dornan in 2013 at Orchardleigh Estate.[9] They have three daughters.[9][10][11][12][13]

Discography

Composer credits

Film/Series Year Notes
Mam 2010 Short
Mum's List 2016
Mary Shelley 2017
Leading Lady Parts[14] 2018 Short
Wild Mountain Thyme[15] 2020
Mr. Malcolm's List 2022
Young Woman and the Sea 2024

Albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Renditions[16] 89

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
UK
2009 "Beasts" Renditions
2011 "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" 31
2020 "Lockdown Kittens Dancing" (with Fearne Cotton and GABA feat. Helen Mirren) Happy Place

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1998 Kavanagh QC Gaynor Deans
Casualty Rachel Munro TV series
Episode: "Eye Spy"
1999 Aristocrats Lady Cecelia Mini-series
Mansfield Park Teenage Fanny Price
2000 Don Quixote Antonia
Quills Simone Royer-Collard
Waking the Dead Jodie Whitemore/Jodie Whitemoor
Take a Girl Like You Sheila Torkingham
Lorna Doone Lorna Doone
2002 Nine Lives Laura
2003 Love's Brother Rosetta
2005 Æon Flux Una Flux
Winter Passing Shelly
Stoned Janet
2006 Alpha Male Elyssa Ferris
2007 The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising Maggie Barnes
2008 The Echo Alyssa
2010 Olga? Cecilia Short film
2012 The Other Side Rachel Short film

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref
2018 World Soundtrack Awards Discovery of the Year Mary Shelley Шаблон:Nominated [17]
IFMCA Breakthrough Composer of the Year Шаблон:Won [18]
2021 World Soundtrack Awards Public Choice Award Wild Mountain Thyme Шаблон:Nominated
Hollywood Music in Media Awards Best Original Score - Independent Film Шаблон:Nominated
Best Original Song - Independent Film Шаблон:Nominated
IFMCA Best Original Score for a Comedy Film Шаблон:Nominated
ASCAP Film Score of the Year Шаблон:Nominated
2023 World Soundtrack Awards Public Choice Award Mr Malcolm's List Шаблон:Won
Girls on Films Awards Best Composer Шаблон:Nominated

References

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External links

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