Английская Википедия:Holliday Grainger

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Holliday Clark Grainger (born 27 March 1988), also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in the Strike series, DI Rachel Carey in the Peacock/BBC One crime drama The Capture and Estella in Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations.

Early life

Grainger was born in Didsbury, Manchester. Her maternal grandfather was Italian. Her first experience of acting was at the age of five when she was scouted for a BBC TV series. She appeared in many TV shows and independent films as a child actor.

Grainger attended Parrs Wood High School from 1999 to 2006, and in 2007 began study for a degree in English literature at the University of Leeds. However, she eventually opted for the Open University.

Career

Grainger's first acting role was at five years old in the BBC comedy drama series All Quiet on the Preston Front. Roles followed in Casualty, Doctors and Dalziel and Pascoe. Grainger played Megan Boothe in Where the Heart Is, Stacey Appleyard in Waterloo Road and Sophia in Merlin.

In 2011, she appeared in the television series The Borgias, playing Lucrezia Borgia with Jeremy Irons in the role of Pope Alexander VI. The series, created by Neil Jordan and shot in Hungary, ran for three seasons.

After her role as Emily in the film The Scouting Book for Boys (2009), she played one of the Rivers sisters opposite Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in Cary Fukunaga's 2011 retelling of Jane Eyre, and had a minor role in Bel Ami alongside Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman.

In June 2011, she was cast in the leading role of Estella in Mike Newell's film adaptation of Great Expectations, opposite Jeremy Irvine and Helena Bonham Carter. The movie, screened at Toronto International Film Festival 2012, had its European premiere as the closing night film of the BFI London Film Festival. She had a minor role in the 2012 film Anna Karenina as Baroness Shilton.

On stage, in 2013 she played a role in Disassociation, a play by Luke Bailey, at The Lowry in Salford, which received largely positive reviews In the same year, she played Bonnie Parker in the 2013 TV mini-series Bonnie & Clyde. She was one of the female leads in the 2014 film The Riot Club, adapted from the play Posh, alongside Max Irons. In the same year, she appeared on stage in Anton Chekov's play Three Sisters at the Southwark Playhouse.

Grainger played Cinderella's stepsister Anastasia Tremaine in Kenneth Branagh's 2015 film version of Cinderella.

In 2016, Grainger starred in Disney's The Finest Hours.

On 20 June 2016, World Refugee Day, Grainger, as well as Jack O'Connell, featured in a film from the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR to help raise awareness of the global refugee crisis. The film, titled Home, has a family take a reverse migration into the middle of a war zone. It is inspired by primary accounts of refugees, and is part of UNHCR's #WithRefugees campaign, which also includes a petition to governments to expand asylum to provide further shelter, integrating job opportunities, and education. Home, written and directed by Daniel Mulloy, went on to win a BAFTA Award and a Gold Lion at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity among many other awards.

In 2017, she appeared in a film adaptation of the novel Tulip Fever alongside Alicia Vikander. From 2017, she plays Robin Ellacott in the TV series Strike (aired in the United States and Canada as C.B. Strike) based on the novels by J. K. Rowling.

Grainger played one of the two lead female roles in the feature film Animals, along with Alia Shawkat. Based on the novel by Emma Jane Unsworth, who also wrote the script, the film was directed by Sophie Hyde and filmed in Dublin.

In 2019, Grainger starred in the BBC conspiracy thriller The Capture.

Personal life

In May 2021, she had twin children with her partner Harry Treadaway, himself a twin (brother of Luke Treadaway).

Filmography

Audio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2022-present	Impact Winter	Darcy

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	The Missing Postman	Harriet
2002	Sparkhouse	Older Lisa Bolton
2003	The Illustrated Mum	Star Westwood
2005	Magnificent 7	Louise Jackson
2006	Johnny and the Bomb	Rose Bushell
2007	The Bad Mother's Handbook	Charlotte Cooper
2008	Dis/Connected	Jenny
2009	Awaydays	Molly Carty
	The Scouting Book for Boys	Emily
2011	Jane Eyre	Diana Rivers
2012	Bel Ami	Suzanne Rousset
	Anna Karenina	Baroness
	Great Expectations	Estella Havisham
2014	The Riot Club	Lauren
2015	Cinderella	Anastasia Tremaine
2016	The Finest Hours	Miriam
2017	My Cousin Rachel	Louise
	Tulip Fever	Maria
	Home	Holly	Short film
2018	Tell It to the Bees	Lydia Weekes
2019	Animals	Laura
2024	Halo of Stars	Emm	Post production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	All Quiet on the Preston Front	Kirsty	4 episodes
1996	Roger and the Rottentrolls	Kate Beckett	Lead role: Series 3&4
2000	Comin' Atcha!	Pauline	Episode: "The Day Off"
	Casualty	Katie Stoppard	Episode: "Seize the Night"
2001	Dalziel and Pascoe	Nichola Crowley	Episode: "Walls of Silence"
	Doctors	Nita Harmer	Episode: "Writing to Charlie"
2003	The Royal	Carole Green	Episode: "Coffin Fit"
2003–2005	Where the Heart Is	Megan Boothe	Main role (series 7–9)
2005	No Angels	Simone	Episode: "2.5"
	Doctors	Holly Leavis	Episode: "Indestructible"
2006	New Street Law	Katie Lewis	Episode: "1.1"
2007	Waterloo Road	Stacey Appleyard	4 episodes
2008	M.I. High	Leah Retsam	Episode: "It's a Kind of Magic"
	The Royal Today	Abigail	Episode: "1.3"
	Fairy Tales	Leeza Gruff	Episode: "Billy Goat"
	Waking the Dead	Nicola Bennet	2 episodes: "Duty and Honour"
	Merlin	Sophia	Episode: "The Gates of Avalon"
2009	Demons	Ruby	Miniseries
	Robin Hood	Meg	Episode: "A Dangerous Deal"
	Blue Murder	Jess Burgess	Episode: "Having It All"
2010	Above Suspicion 2: The Red Dahlia	Sharon Bilkin	3 episodes
	Five Daughters	Alice	Episodes: "1.2", "1.3"
	Stanley Park	Dirty Debbie	Pilot
	Any Human Heart	Tess Scabius	2 episodes
2011–2013	The Borgias	Lucrezia Borgia	Main role
2013	Bonnie & Clyde	Bonnie Parker	Miniseries Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries
2015	Lady Chatterley's Lover	Lady Chatterley	Television film
2017–present	Strike	Robin Ellacott	15 episodes
2017	Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams	Honor	Episode: "The Hood Maker"
2018	Patrick Melrose	Bridget Watson Scott	Miniseries
2019–present	The Capture	Rachel Carey	12 episodes
2024	Playdate		5 episodes, post-production

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue
2009	Dimetos	Lydia	Donmar Warehouse, London
2014	Three Sisters	Irina	Southwark Playhouse, London

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