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Romola Garai won her first professional acting roles as a teenager, and since then, her career has taken her in a wide range of dramatic directions. Most recently, she won a 2025 Olivier Award for her role in The Years, a sometimes shocking play based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux 鈥 and she was competing against herself, with a nomination in the same category for her part in Giant, a play about Roald Dahl. Her previous stage work includes playing Cordelia opposite Ian McKellen鈥檚 King Lear, and her extensive screen credits include the title role in a 麻豆社 adaptation of Jane Austen鈥檚 Emma. She also won acclaim for The Hour, a drama set behind the scenes of a TV current affairs programme in the 1950s. In 2020, she went behind the camera to write and direct a horror film called Amulet. Romola's music choices include John Taverner, Handel and Keith Jarrett.
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