Abigail Tarttelin

Abigail Jane Kathryn Tarttelin
Born 13 October 1987 (age 27)
Grimsby, Humberside, England
Nationality English
Citizenship United Kingdom
Occupation Author

Abigail Jane Kathryn Tarttelin (born 13 October 1987 in Grimsby, Humberside) is an English novelist who began her career as an actress. Her second book, Golden Boy, was described as a "dazzling debut" by Oprah's Book Club.[1] Published in 2013, the book has rapidly been translated into numerous languages.[2][3][4]

Early life

Tarttelin was born in Grimsby, England. Her paternal grandfather is artist David Tarttelin. She grew up in North East England. At sixteen she trained with the National Youth Theatre and the New York Film Academy school in France, acting in over 20 short films.[5] Of these films, La Geode, by New York artist Theresa Hong, appeared in the Official Selection of the New York Short Film Festival, the LA Shorts Fest and Strasbourg Film Festival.[6][7]

Career

In her first acting role Tarttelin played Fenella in The Butterfly Tattoo.[7] The following year she took the starring role in independent sci-fi Schrodinger’s Girl[8] (now entitled Triple Hit[9] in which she played three versions of the same woman in parallel worlds.[10] The film premiered in 2009 at Comic-Con, in San Diego. She attended Comic-Con and Cannes Film Festival with The Butterfly Tattoo, based on the novel by Philip Pullman, and Triple Hit, and in 2009 she became one of only two actresses to make it into Moviescope magazine’s ‘Ones To Watch’ selection of British artists working in independent film.[11][12][13][14] She has also written for minor blog Women & Hollywood[15] and as a screenwriter for Academy Award shortlisted[16] filmmaker Chris Jones.[17] She also shot for feature film 'Three Stags', directed by Mark Locke, and bilingual thriller 'Taxi Rider'[18] in 2010.

Tarttelin's debut novel 'Flick' was released in April 2011. In 2013 she published her novel Golden Boy, about an intersex teenager. The book has been well received, and film rights are in discussion.[19][20][21][22][23]

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