00:00Sally Hawkins is spoken about as an intellectual actress from Great Britain and Mike Lee's muse.
00:27Her fans know her due to her roles in Godzilla, Happy-Go-Lucky, and The Shape of Water along with Maudie.
00:35Growing up in Southeast London, she developed a passion for the arts, including an obsession with black and white films.
00:42Sally finished James Allen's Girl School and Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1998.
00:48Her dyslexia did not prevent her from receiving a diploma of this prestigious educational institution.
00:55Reading scenarios aloud certainly helped solve her dyslexia problem.
01:00Sally played a significant role in The Longest Yard by the British director Mike Lee.
01:06He also offered the actress an opportunity to star in the social comedy Happy-Go-Lucky.
01:12The role of the married teacher Poppy was actually created specifically for her.
01:17Apart from the warm reviews by the audience and the critics, the movie received the silver bear on the Berlin International Film Festival and the Golden Globe for her as Best Actress.
01:28Even so, Sally Hawkins remains modest about her talents.
01:32I never came away from a film thinking that I truly had nailed it, she admitted.
01:38Before she was included in the cast of a popular movie, for three years Hawkins worked on the show Little Britain.
01:45In 2004, as the thriller Layer Cake, Hawkins worked together with Sierra Miller, Tom Hardy and Daniel Craig.
02:04In the same year, the actress took part in another of Mike Lee's projects, Vera Drake.
02:08A year later, she starred in the series Fingersmith, which is based on the novel by Sarah Walters.
02:14Hawkins had already played in another screen adaptation of this writer's novel, Tipping the Velvet.
02:20In 2006, the director John Curran turned Somerset Maugham's novel The Painted Veil into a movie and invited Edward Norton and Naomi Watts.
02:30Unfortunately, these episodes with Sally Hawkins were not included in the final version of the film.
02:36However, she was brilliant in Persuasion, the screen adaptation of Jane Austen's novel under the same title, and played Anne Elliot.
02:45The leading actress got the Golden Nymph Award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival and Royal Television Society Award for the Best Actress.
02:54The actress's work in three movies was highly appreciated in 2010.
02:59The drama Made in Dagenham, the comedy Submarine and the fantastic Auto Utopia Never Let Me Go.
03:06The same year, Hawkins did part in Mrs. Warren's profession on the Broadway stage.
03:11The next year, she played Mrs. Reed in the screen adaptation of the cult novel Jane Eyre.
03:17For the secondary role in the drama Blue Jasmine by Woody Allen, Hawkins was nominated for an Oscar as the Best Supporting Actress.
03:25In 2014, Sally's career path was reinforced with the comedy Paddington and the leading role of Dr. Vivian in the blockbuster Godzilla, the first movie of Universal Monsters.
03:38In 2016, the actress starred in the movie Maudie with Ethan Hawke and got into the character of Maudie Lewis.
03:47Why don't you leave me alone?
03:49The actress later got back into the funny story about Paddington.
04:01In 2016, the director Guillermo del Toro offered Sally to star in his movie The Shape of Water without auditions.
04:09This fantasy movie led the 2018 Oscars with a total of 13 nominations that year.
04:15Sally keeps a low profile when it comes to her personal life.
04:19She has no husband or children.
04:21The actress used to make an arrangement with her friend and colleague James Corden that in case none of them would get engaged before 35, that they would marry.
04:30However, in 2012, James married another woman.
04:35The actress has no Twitter or Instagram account.
04:38The pictures from moving shootings, events and news are published on the websites created by her faithful fans.
04:44Of the future, she says, I'm doing something I really love.
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