Romola Garai
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Romola Sadie Garai (born 6 August 1982) is an English actress and model. She is known for appearing in the movies Amazing Grace, Atonement, and Glorious 39, and for appearing in the TV movie Emma.
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The Windermere Children (2020)
As: Marie Paneth
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Michael Samuels
Stars: Thomas Kretschmann | Romola Garai | Iain Glen | Tim McInnerny | Philipp Christopher
The Miniaturist (2017)
As: Marin Brandt
A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
Runtime: 149 min.
Directed by: Guillem Morales
Stars: Romola Garai | Hayley Squires | Alex Hassell | Anya Taylor-Joy | Paapa Essiedu
Dominion (2016)
As: Caitlin Thomas
The last days of the poet Dylan Thomas as he dreams and drinks.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Steven Bernstein
Stars: Rhys Ifans | John Malkovich | Tony Hale | Romola Garai | Rodrigo Santoro
Churchill's Secret (2016)
As: Millie Appleyard
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Charles Sturridge
Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Michael Gambon | Lindsay Duncan | Tara Fitzgerald | Romola Garai
Suffragette (2015)
As: Alice Haughton
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Sarah Gavron
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Helena Bonham Carter | Carey Mulligan | Meryl Streep | Anne-Marie Duff
Legacy (2013)
As: Anna March
Set in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past. Based on Alan Judd's 2001 novel Legacy, the second in the Thoroughgood series after 1981's A Breed Of Heroes (adapted by the BBC in 1994). As the three day week, petrol rationing and industrial strife plunge Britain into a state of ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Pete Travis
Stars: Andrew Scott | Christian McKay | Romola Garai | Charlie Cox | Simon Russell Beale
The Last Days on Mars (2013)
As: Rebecca Lane
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claims all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Ruairi Robinson
Stars: Elias Koteas | Liev Schreiber | Olivia Williams | Johnny Harris | Romola Garai
Having You (2013)
As: Camilla
Jack has finally managed to propose to his infertile girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Sam Hoare
Stars: Anna Friel | Romola Garai | Andrew Buchan | Isaac Andrews | Phil Davis
What You Will (2012)
A behind-the-scenes documentary based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Simon Reade
Stars: Dominic West | Romola Garai | Zoë Tapper
Junkhearts (2011)
As: Christine
Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine - smart and successful... on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. Lynette, a young rough sleeper watches Christine stumble out of a club whilst she sits in the cold waiting for loose change to fall on her lap; her luck seems ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Tinge Krishnan
Stars: Eddie Marsan | Tom Sturridge | Romola Garai | John Boyega | Candese Reid
Babysitting (2011)
As: Maggie
When Maggie is asked to babysit for her boss' wife, an unfortunate incident alters her outlook on love, life and an old relationship. A wonderfully engaging short film that examines the transformative nature of human relationships.
Runtime: 18 min.
Directed by: Sam Hoare
Stars: Romola Garai | Dan Stevens | Imogen Stubbs | Bill Thomas
One Day (2011)
As: Sylvie Cope
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Anne Hathaway | Rafe Spall | Jodie Whittaker | Jim Sturgess | Tom Mison
Glorious 39 (2009)
As: Anne Keyes
A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an unexpected pawn. Her accidental discovery of secret recordings creates a rift in the family.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Stephen Poliakoff
Stars: Bill Nighy | Juno Temple | Julie Christie | Romola Garai | Eddie Redmayne
The Other Man (2008)
As: Abigail
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Richard Eyre
Stars: Laura Linney | Antonio Banderas | Liam Neeson | Romola Garai | Abigail Canton
King Lear (2008)
As: Cordelia
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, ...
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Trevor Nunn
Stars: Ian McKellen | Monica Dolan | Romola Garai | Philip Winchester | Sylvester McCoy
Atonement (2007)
As: Briony Tallis (Age 18)
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Joe Wright
Stars: Keira Knightley | James McAvoy | Saoirse Ronan | Brenda Blethyn | Romola Garai
Angel (2007)
As: Angel
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: François Ozon
Stars: Charlotte Rampling | Michael Fassbender | Sam Neill | Romola Garai | Lucy Russell
Amazing Grace (2006)
As: Barbara Spooner
The true story of William Wilberforce's courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Although meeting intense opposition, his minister, John Newton, urges him to see the cause through.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Michael Apted
Stars: Michael Gambon | Ioan Gruffudd | Benedict Cumberbatch | Albert Finney | Romola Garai
Scoop (2006)
As: Vivian
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Ian McShane | Woody Allen | Scarlett Johansson | Hugh Jackman | Kevin McNally
Renaissance (2006)
As: Ilona Tasuiev
To find Ilona and unlock the secrets of her disappearance, Karas must plunge deep into the parallel worlds of corporate espionage, organized crime and genetic research - where the truth imprisons whoever finds it first and miracles can be bought but at a great price.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Christian Volckman
Stars: Catherine McCormack | Ian Holm | Jonathan Pryce | Romola Garai | Daniel Craig
As You Like It (2006)
As: Celia
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Kevin Kline | Bryce Dallas Howard | Adrian Lester | Romola Garai | Janet McTeer
Inside I'm Dancing (2004)
As: Siobhan
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Damien O'Donnell
Stars: Brenda Fricker | Steven Robertson | James McAvoy | Romola Garai | Alan King
Vanity Fair (2004)
As: Amelia Sedley
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims ...
Runtime: 141 min.
Directed by: Mira Nair
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Gabriel Byrne | Reese Witherspoon | Romola Garai | James Purefoy
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
As: Katey Miller
In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor, Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter, Javier, who spends his nights dancing in Havana's nightclubs. As she secretly learns to dance with Javier, she learns the meanings of love, sensuality and independence.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Guy Ferland
Stars: Diego Luna | Jonathan Jackson | Romola Garai | Sela Ward | John Slattery
I Capture the Castle (2003)
As: Cassandra Mortmain
A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Based on Dodie Smith's 1948 novel with the same name.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Tim Fywell
Stars: Rose Byrne | Bill Nighy | Tara Fitzgerald | Marc Blucas | Romola Garai
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
As: Kate Nickleby
The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Douglas McGrath
Stars: Christopher Plummer | Nathan Lane | Jim Broadbent | Jamie Bell | Charlie Hunnam
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000)
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its ...
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon
Stars: Ian Holm | Olympia Dukakis | Joan Sims | Judi Dench | June Whitfield