Romola Garai

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Romola Sadie Garai (born 1 July 1982) is an English actress.

Garai is of Jewish-Hungarian descent on her father's side, and is the great-granddaughter of Bert Garai, the founder of the Keystone Press. She was born in Southwark, then raised in Hong Kong and Wiltshirewhere she attended Stonar School, and later attended school in London, where she was spotted in a school play which led to her first professional role. She began her career in television, and has also appeared on the stage.

Her highest profile role to date was as the female lead in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), a prequel to 1987's Dirty Dancing. However, the film both received poor critical reviews and was not as commercially successful as had been hoped.

She will next appear in King Lear and The Seagull at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

[edit] Selected credits

• Running For River (2007) (short film) (in production)
• Atonement (2007) (in production) with Keira Knightley
• The Real Life of Angel Deverell (2006) with Michael Fassbender
• Amazing Grace (2006) with Ioan Gruffudd
• Scoop (2006) with Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen and Hugh Jackman
• The Incredible Journey Of Mary Bryant (2005) (TV)
• Midsummer Dream (2005)
• Vanity Fair (2004) with Reese Witherspoon
• Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
• Inside I'm Dancing (a.k.a. Rory O'Shea Was Here) (2004)
• Calico (2004, stage play) as Lucia Joyce
• I Capture the Castle (2003)
• Tea With Mr Rochester (2003, radio) as the reader
• Daniel Deronda (2002) (TV)
• Nicholas Nickleby (2002) Charles Dickens' classic

[edit] External links

• Romola Garai at the Internet Movie Database
• Romola Garai Online
• Capturing Romola: A Romola Garai Fansite
• Rory O'Shea was here