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On this day -- August 17

North Texas e-News - Found Aug. 17, 2008
1986 - Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player 1988 - Erika Toda, Japanese actress 1990 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress 1990 - Colin...

Posted on August 17, 2008, 5:45 am

Cast Updates - August 16, 2008

The Numbers - Found Aug. 16, 2008
Jones, Renee Zellweger as Lucy Hill in Chilled in Miami Ben Chaplin, Caroline Goodall, Fiona Shaw, Rachel Hurd-Wood in Dorian Gray Charlotte...

Posted on August 16, 2008, 6:57 am

REBECCA HALL JOINS 'DORIAN GRAY'

IF Magazine.com - Found Aug. 10, 2008
Ben Barnes will be starring in the title role, along with Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Fiona Shaw, Maryam D'Abo, Pip Torrens...

Posted on August 10, 2008, 3:20 am

Sneak Peek: Ben Barnes in 'Dorian Gray'

Los Angeles Times - Found Aug. 12, 2008
... stars Ben Chaplin, Rebecca Hall ('Vicky Cristina Barcelona'), Fiona Shaw ('Harry Potter') Rachel Hurd-Wood ('Perfume'), Johnny Harris ('The...

Posted on August 12, 2008, 12:52 pm

Rebecca Hall joins 'Dorian Gray'

Variety - Found Aug. 7, 2008
Ealing's Barnaby Thompson produces.Other cast members announced Aug. 7 are Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Fiona Shaw, Maryam D'Abo...
Hall joins Ealing's 'Dorian Gray' - Variety
Full Cast Announced for Dorian Gray - Coming Soon!
Rebecca Hall Joins the Dorian Grey Cast - MovieWeb
Full Cast, Creative Team Set for The Picture of Dorian Gray at ... - TheaterMania
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Posted on August 7, 2008, 2:02 am

Cast Locked in for Fantasy DORIAN G...

Mania - Found Aug. 8, 2008
Rebecca Hall, Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Fiona Shaw, Maryam D'Abo, Pip Torrens, Douglas Henshall, Caroline Goodall, Michael...
Entitled 'Dorian Gray' the film stars Ben Barnes in the lead role, ... - Irish World News
Shaw joins cast of Wilde film - Irish World News
Irish star joins Oscar Wilde film - RTE Online
Hall and Shaw Join 'Dorian Gray' Cast - Broadway World
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Posted on August 8, 2008, 12:05 pm

Dorian Gray

BoxOfficeProphets - Found Aug. 9, 2008
The actress joins already signed actors Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Fiona Shaw, Maryam D'Abo, Pip...
There Are Many New Faces Of Dorian Gray - Cinema Blend
Hall Joins Cast Of Gray - SCIFI.COM
Rebecca Hall and Fiona Shaw Join Cast of "Dorian Gray" Remake - Playbill
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Posted on August 9, 2008, 12:10 pm

Rebecca in picture for film

Derby Evening Telegraph - Found Aug. 8, 2008
Ben Chaplin, Emilia Fox, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Max Irons (Jeremy Irons' son), Fiona Shaw, Pip Torrens, Douglas Henshall, Caroline Goodall, Michael...

Posted on August 8, 2008, 8:58 am

Rachel Hurd Wood Biography

Rachel Hurd Wood
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Rachel Hurd-Wood
Born Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood
August 17, 1990 (1990-08-17) (age 18)
Flag of the United Kingdom London, England
Years active 2003 – present
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Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood (born 17 August 1990) is a British actress.

Hurd-Wood was born in London, England, the daughter of Philip and Sarah Hurd-Wood. She has a younger brother, Patrick. She claims to have had thoughts of becoming a marine biologist, until recently, when she apparently became interested in working with children who have special needs or disabilities. Her break out role was in the 2003 movie Peter Pan.


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Childhood and Family

In London, England, Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood was born on August 17, 1990—, to Philip and Sarah Hurd-Wood. She has a younger brother, Patrick, who appeared with her in Peter Pan (2003). She enjoys rap and hiphop music, as well as ice skating and art.[1] She also loves dolphins so much that she has dreamt of becoming a Marine Biologist. Recently, she became interested in working with children who have special needs. Rachel currently resides in a Victorian cottage at the edge of a forest in Godalming, Surrey, England, along with her parents, brother, and her two gerbil pets: Romulus and Remus.

“When I was younger, I wanted to work with dolphins and be a marine biologist. But then around two years ago, I just decided that that wasn't really the thing for me, because you have to be really good at science and stuff, and I'm not. I know the job I want to do now, but it's more a psychology-based course.” Rachel Hurd-Wood.

Career

"First acting experience - so that was just, incredible, I never thought that I'd get it, I really didn't. I still can't believe it - you know, it just seems so weird, and seeing it up on the big screen. I kind of disassociate the finished product to when we were actually filming because the two seem so different." Rachel Hurd-Wood.

A daughter of a father whose work involves performing, writing scripts and doing voice-over for commercials, Rachel Hurd-Wood has not been strange to acting. She joined a drama club in her school and even took part in its stage production during her second grade. Originally dreaming of becoming a marine biologist, 13-year-old Rachel immediately scored a great success in her first professional acting experience; a rare achievement that many thespians of her age hardly accomplished.

Recalling on her audition for Peter Pan (2003), Rachel said: “When I came home from school, my mother put me against the wall and measured me and smiled and said, ‘How would you like to audition for 'Peter Pan,' the film?’ I said I would love to give it a go.”

The story began when her grandparents found out from TV about an open casting call for the role of Wendy Darling in director P. J. Hogan's film version of the classic children's play and novel by J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan (2003). Her grandparents called her mother, telling Rachel to join the audition. To her surprise, she eventually got the part. She soon headed for Australia for filming, along with other cast members including Jeremy Sumpter (he plays the title role), Jason Isaacs (as Captain Hook) and Ludivine Sagnier (as Tinkerbell).

“I never thought in a million years I would get the part. My mum came in and woke me up and said they made an offer. And then I woke up, running around the house screaming and I nearly fell over because I was really, really tired and half asleep. I was just so happy, it was incredible.” Rachel Hurd-Wood (describing her excitement when she won the role of Wendy Darling in Peter Pan (2003)).

The film, released on Christmas 2003, quickly soared to be a box-office hit and subsequently helped launching Rachel’s name towards the spotlight. Her performance also received good reviews and was nominated Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor and Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress.

Following her first big break, Rachel joined senior actor Rupert Everett on the BBC movie Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004), which follows Sherlock Holmes tracking down a serial killer stalking the teen-aged daughters of the aristocracy.

“She's an amazing character. She stays strong throughout the whole horrible ordeal, and that's something I really respected. I found her to be quite similar to myself, so I couldn't stand the idea of anyone else playing her.” Rachel Hurd-Wood (on her role as Betsy in An American Haunting (2006)).

Further Acting Roles

The budding actress then moved further into Hollywood film scene, joining Hollywood veterans Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek in the 2006 thriller, An American Haunting. In the Courtney Solomon-directed film, based on true events that took place in Tennessee during the 1800s, Rachel plays Sutherland and Spacek's youngest daughter, Betsy, who is haunted and tormented by an unrelenting demon.

“Sissy's such a lovely lady. She's really motherly, she's always ensuring that I was warm when I went outside, and drinking enough and eating enough and everything. She's just such a sweet lady. And she taught me how to scream. Little nuances, little tricks that she'd teach me all the time. Not really stuff you can explain. Just watching those two, you get so much of an education, it was like spending years in film school.” Rachel Hurd-Wood (on working with Sutherland and Spacek in An American Haunting (2006).

She followed it up with an appearance opposite Dustin Hoffman in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of the bestselling novel by German writer Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. In the drama, set in 18th-century France, Rachel portrayed Laure Alan Rickman’s daughter), a red-headed virgin who could be the crown 13th note of Grenouille's (played by British actor Ben Whishaw) perfume. It hit theaters on December 27, 2006.

Filmography

Year Film Role
2003 Peter Pan Wendy Darling
2004 Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Imogen Helhoughton
2005 An American Haunting Betsy Bell
2006 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Laura Richis
2008 Solomon Kane Meredith Crowthorn
Dorian Gray Sybil Vane

References

  1. ^ Rachel Hurd-Wood - Biography

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