Nathalie Press
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Nathalie Press (born 15 August 1980, London, UK) is an acclaimed English actress, perhaps best known for her award-winning performance in the 2004 film My Summer of Love and a number of short and feature length independent films.
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[edit] Personal Life
Press is from North London and practiced Judaism until the age of 13.[1] Many sources list her birthday as 15 August 1980, although she is rumoured to be older[2]. After studying Fine Art at university, she worked as an office temp and as a video store clerk on the Fulham Road until the success of My Summer of Love.
[edit] Career
Press' first credited screen role was in a 2001 episode of the BBC television series Holby City. Her film debut and first lead role was in the short film Wasp (2003), which went on to win the Academy Award for best short film in 2005. She was recognized by the London Film Critics Circle and the Evening Standard British Film Awards for her work in My Summer of Love (2004) and nominated for a European Film Award in the category of Best European actress the same year. She made her professional stage debut in The Weather, a new play Clare Pollard, performed as part of the Royal Court Theatre's 2004 Young Playwrights Season. In 2005, Press appeared as Caddy Turveydrop (nee Jellyby) in the acclaimed BBC serialisation of Dickens' Bleak House. Also in 2005 she appeared in the BBC television drama Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle.
In 2006, Press starred in Josh Appignanesi's feature film Song of Songs, which won a commendation in the Michael Powell Award for best British film 2005 at the Edinburgh festival. Later that year she also starred in the same director's short film Ex Memoria - produced by Oscar-winning producer Mia Bays - a film about a woman with Alzheimer's disease. Press starred as the young version of the character Eva. The short was nominated in the category of Best UK short at the British Independent Film Awards.
In 2006 Press appeared in Red Road (also by the director of Wasp) (the first film in the proposed Advance Party trilogy) which won the Jury Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and in the two-part drama series Damage which was broadcast on Irish television. In the same year she won the Glamour magazine award for best newcomer in association with Nokia.
Press has recently been seen in the short films Son by BAFTA winner Daniel Mulloy and Inseparable opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, and in In Transit a World War II drama set in Russia which also features John Malkovich. Forthcoming films include Nightwatching, directed by Peter Greenaway, Knife Edge, Telepathy with Cillian Murphy and Sam Neil.
On March 8th 2007, Press performed in an Art Plus drama fundraising event at the Whitechapel Art Gallery opposite Rhys Ifans, Martine McCutcheon and Samantha Morton. In 2007 she was, alongside Cecilia Dean and Helena Christensen, one of the new faces of the Japanese clothing label Uniqlo and featured in the Music Video for Turin Brakes' single "Stalker". She made her Radio debut in October 2007 in the BBC radio play Wes Bell by Matthew Broughton.
She appears in a number of forthcoming films, and it attached to work on The Sycamores with Peter Mullan and Kelly Reilly, Carrying David for Aisling Walsh who directed her in Damage.
[edit] Filmography
- Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) (post-production) .... Lara
- Knife Edge (2008) (post-production) .... Emma
- Cass (2008) (completed) .... Elaine
- Son (2008) .... Mother
- The Man Who Would Be Queen (2007) .... Unknown
- Nightwatching (2007) .... Marieke
- In Tranzit (2007) .... Zina
- Inseparable (2007) .... Jean
- Red Road (2006) .... April
- Ex Memoria (2006) .... Young Eva Lipschitz
- Song of Songs (2006) .... Ruth Cohen
- The Undertaker (2005) .... Young Woman
- Animal (2005) .... Pregnant Woman
- Chromophobia (2005) .... Fiona
- Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle (2005) (TV) .... Helen Taylor
- Lie with Me (2004) (TV) .... Sheena Cast
- My Summer of Love (2004) .... Mona
- Mercy (2004) .... Alison
- Wasp (2003) .... Zoë
- Peter in Paradise (2003) (TV) .... Maria
- The Gathering (2002) .... Female Van Pusher
- Spiritual Rampage (2002) .... Unknown
