Olivia Colman: Biography, Movies & Photos

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1Met future husband Ed Sinclair while at the University of Cambridge. They have been together since 1993.
2She asked for her character on Peep Show (2003) to be characterized as less likable, after convincing the writers that her behavior and treatment of David Mitchell's character had been poor.
3Has starred in four films with Paddy Considine and appeared in his first two directorial efforts.
4Has three children with her husband Ed Sinclair: two sons, Finn Sinclair (b. August 2005) and Hal Joseph Sinclair (b. August 2007), and one daughter (b. August 2015).
5Was Eight months pregnant with her daughter when she completed filming The Night Manager (2016).

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6Returned to work jibe months after giving birth to her daughter to begin filming the final series of Broadchurch (2013).
7Considers working on Confetti (2006) as a mistake and the worst acting experience she had of all the projects on which she has worked.
8Convinced director Susanne Bier to hire her for the role of Angela Burr on The Night Manager (2016) despite the fact she was heavily pregnant with her third child by making reference to how well Frances McDormand's pregnant character Marge Gunderson worked on the movie Fargo (1996). Coincidentally, it was McDormand who handed Olivia the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Favourite (2018).
9As of 2017, she is the only actress to have played both HM Queen Elizabeth II and her mother Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Colman played the latter in Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) and the former in The Crown (2016).
10Is the daughter of Mary (Leakey), a nurse, and Keith Colman, a chartered surveyor.
11Born on the same date as Christian Bale. They both were nominated for Oscars in 2019 and she won.
12Called Glenn Close her idol when winning Oscar over her in 2019.
13Worked as a cleaner before becoming an actress.
14August is her family month. She married in August 2001 and welcomed her three children in August of 2005, 2007, and 2015.
15When she won the Oscar for her first acting nomination with The Favourite (2018), she joined the ranks of other winners for first nominations such as, Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse (1936)), Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)), Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)), Mercedes McCambridge (All the King's Men (1949)), Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)), Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront (1954)), Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden (1955)), Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins (1964)), Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl (1968)), Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon (1973)), Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People (1980)), Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields (1984)), Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God (1986)), Anna Paquin (The Piano (1993)), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls (2006)), Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave (2013)).
16Olivia's three children, Finn (13), Hal (11) and baby daughter (3) all watched her win the Best Actress Academy Award for The Favourite (2018) at the home of her agent Lindy King in Los Angeles (February 24, 2019).
17She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Drama.
18She felt so nervous singing the Portishead song "Glory Box", which she did for the album "BBC Children in Need: Got It Covered", that she requested Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her sister Isobel Waller-Bridge to be present and play ukulele to calm her down.
19Despite playing Helena Bonham Carter's older sister on The Crown (2016), Colman is actually eight years younger than her in real life.
20Both she and Helena Bonham Carter have played Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in separate projects; Bonham Carter in The King's Speech (2010) and Colman in Hyde Park on Hudson (2012). Together they played the Queen Mother's daughters on The Crown (2016). The actresses have also both played the role of Madame Thénardier; Bonham Carter in Les Misérables (2012) and Colman in Les Misérables (2018).

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