Amelia Warner is a famous British actress who started her career with such projects as "Aristocrats", "Mansfield Park", "The Last Knight" and others. She is also the author of several songs, both for commercials and for several films. In the article, we will get acquainted with the creative activity of this person in more detail.
Biography
Amelia was born in 1982 in Liverpool (Merseyside) in a family of film actors - Annette Ackblom and Alan Lewis. When the girl was four years old, they moved to London, where Amelia first attended the Royal Masonic School, designed to educate girls, and then studied fine art at London College and art history at Goldsmiths University.
Amelia Warner's first wedding took place in 2001. It was the result of her relationship with British actor Colin Farrell. But it turned out that he was not her destiny and eventually the couple broke up. However, as the actress herself claimed, their marriage was not legal.
Amelia became truly happy in 2010, whenMet Irish actor Jamie Dornan. Three years of relationship they secured a magnificent wedding, which took place in the country estate of Orchardleigh in Somerset. Now Jamie Dornan and Amelia Warner live in Los Angeles and are raising two daughters, Dalsie and Elva.
Lorna Doon Feather
For some reason, at the time, Annette Ekblom tried to keep her daughter away from theater scenes and even more so from cinema. But in 1998, when Amelia starred in one episode of the British TV series Kavanagh (1995-2001), her mother realized that her plan had failed. Meanwhile, the actress's career began to gain momentum.
In the same 1998, she was offered a cameo role in Paul Unwin and Jeremy Brock's medical drama Catastrophe (1986 - …). A year later, Amelia Warner played Lady Cecilia in David Caffrey's biographical miniseries The Aristocrats (1999) and had a small role in Patricia Rozema's romantic comedy Mansfield Park (1999), based on Jane Austen's novel of the same name.
In 2000, the actress took a modest part in the filming of Peter Yates' television adventure drama The Last Knight. As an underage orphan, Simone appeared in Philip Kaufman's historical drama The Pen of the Marquis de Sade (2000). And the role of the main character, Lorna Doone, received in Mike Barker's British melodrama "Lorna Doone" (2000), the plot of which is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Blackmore.
Missing in dope
In 2002, the film with Amelia Warner "Nine Lives" was released, where the actress played the role of Laura -one of the main characters in Andrew Green's painting. And after the short film by Ben Fogg, Falling Slowly appeared in Jan Sardi's melodrama Rival Brothers (2004). She played a frivolous Italian named Rosetta, who agreed to marry an Australian, judging him only from a photograph.
A year later, Amelia played one of the main roles in the comedy-drama Living the Winter, directed by American film director Adam Rapp. Then she appeared in Stephen Woolley's biographical drama Dope, which tells about the life of Brian Jones, the leader of the British rock band the Rolling Stones. And she received a supporting role in the sci-fi spy thriller Aeon Flux (2005) by Karin Kusama.
In 2006, Amelia Warner accepted an offer to star as Elissa Faris in Dan Wilde's drama The Return. Then she played Sophie, the girlfriend of the protagonist, in Ringan Ledwidge's psychological thriller Lost (2006). A year later, she appeared in the role of a minor character in David L. Cunningham's family drama Dark Rising. And the horror film by Jan Laranas "Echo" was the final stage of her acting career. Apart from two other short films, of course.
Music career
But if films with Amelia Warner stopped being made, this does not mean that she cut off her connection with the film industry. In 2009, she tried herself as a composer under the pseudonym Slow Moving Millie, presenting her first song Beasts, which she wrote for a commercial for mobile phone company Virgin Media. Her second track, RewindCity, sounded in an advertisement for the mobile operator Orange UK. She also composed a cover version of a song by The Smiths, which was then used in a New Year's commercial for the John Lewis department store chain.
Besides this, Amelia Warner is a composer in several films. For example, her soundtrack can be heard in Hugo Spear's fifteen-minute short film Mom (2010). She composed the music for Niall Johnson's British drama Mom's List (2016). And at the end of 2017, Haifa Al-Mansor biographical drama "Mary Shelley" will appear at the box office, the musical accompaniment to which was also handled by Amelia Warner.
