Naomie Melanie Harris Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
British actress Naomie Harris was born in London, the only child of television scriptwriter Lisselle Kayla. Her father is from Jamaica and her mother is from Trinidad. She showed an interest in acting from an early age and attended the prestigious Anna Scher Theatre School. From here, Harris won roles in various projects, such as Simon and the ...
Glamour Award for Theatre Actress, Glamour Award for Film Actress, Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Performance, Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, British Independent Film Award – The Variety Award, Black Reel Awa...
Nominations
BAFTA Rising Star Award, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Perform...
Movies
Skyfall, Spectre, Our Kind of Traitor, Moonlight, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, 28 Days Later, Collateral Beauty, Southpaw, Ninja Assassin, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, After the Sunset, Miami Vice, The First Grader, Street Kings, Jungle Book...
TV Shows
Erasmus Microman, Runaway Bay, Accused, Blood And Oil, The Tomorrow People, Small Island, Runaway Bay, Accused, The Tomorrow People, Erasmus Microman, Blood And Oil
Star Sign
Virgo
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Quote
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[on Danny Boyle]: He's the reason, really, that I have the career that I've had because he took a risk on me and gave me Selena in "28 Days Later." [He] really started my career for me, I'm very grateful to Danny Boyle.
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It's business first and foremost in the US, and you're a commodity. But I love their can-do mentality. They enjoy success and all the doors are open, no matter what you look like or where you're from. It's a big, hungry machine that constantly needs new talent to feed it, so everyone gets a chance. I'm sure my career would have petered out if I'd stayed in Britain; there's just not enough work here. On the other hand, I love coming back and being normal.
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Film is such a male-dominated industry. There's a lot of "who you know" in terms of how you get promoted. The whole way the business is constructed [means there are ] just men at every level, which makes it really hard for women to get their feet in the door. Also, the way of working makes it very difficult for women to succeed in the business. It must be incredibly hard if you have children to navigate the hours.
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I haven't been directed by a woman. I'd love to be; it would make a big difference. Often as an actress you can feel very alienated, especially if you are playing the female lead in a male-dominated cast and environment. It's very hard to feel relaxed, to feel able to express yourself and to feel that you will be heard in that kind of environment.
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Everything starts in the writing, and getting more and more women's perspective in the writing will have a huge impact on the quality of films we get. At the moment, we don't really see women as we see ourselves and as we really are because it's only men writing for us. I've read a lot of scripts where I've thought: "No women would ever say that! No woman would ever behave like that!" Women are put into these categories of bitch, mother or sex symbol. If we had more women writing we would have a more realistic representation of what it's like to be a woman.
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Fact
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Has been in a long-term relationship with Peter Legler Since 2012.
Replaced Lupita Nyong'o in the role of Angela Rivera in Southpaw (2015) after Nyong'o backed out of the project.
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She is the first black actress to play Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond series. Harris's interpretation of Moneypenny is also significantly expanded from the character's secretarial roots; in Skyfall (2012) she is introduced as a full-fledged MI6 field agent and an agile sidekick to Bond.
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Her mother is Lisselle Kayla, who came to England from Jamaica at the age of five. Her father is from Trinidad.
$1.1 Million
