Romola Garai

Since playing naive work experience girl Zoe in BBC drama Attachments, Romola Garai's career has been in the ascendancy. She won plaudits for her role as spoilt but beautiful Gwendolen Harleth in Daniel Deronda, and is the star of this year's films Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and Vanity Fair.

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What's she been in? While Romola was still at school she was spotted for her first role, as the younger Elizabeth in TV drama Last of the Blonde Bombshells, which also starred such acting luminaries as Judi Dench, Ian Holm and Billie Whitelaw. Her big break came with the part of work experience girl Zoe in internet office drama Attachments. Loved from afar by sentimental Brandon and lusted after by Reece, the character's vulnerability was gradually eroded by her worldly workmates. Romola played the long-lost daughter of ex-EastEnders star Michelle Collins (Cindy) in bigamy drama Perfect in 2001. She played the part of Kate in 2001 adaptation of Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickelby, in a starry production also starring Charlie Hunnam (Queer as Folk) and Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot). Romola stars as Cassandra Mortmain in an adaptation of Dodie Smith's beloved story I Capture the Castle with Bill Nighy and Henry Thomas (Elliott in E.T.). In 2002 Romola won the much coveted part of Gwendolen Harleth in Daniel Deronda, a confident young woman humbled by marriage to authoritarian husband, Grandcourt (Hugh Bonneville). Did you know? Romola has a good soprano voice and can play the violin. Her equestrian scenes in Daniel Deronda wouldn't have been a chore as she enjoys horse-riding and horse-jumping. Personal Details She was born in 1982. Romola was brought up in Singapore and Hong Kong until the age of 10. One of her ambitions is to write and direct for the theatre.

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