Liv Hill

Last updated

Liv Hill
Born (2000-06-22) 22 June 2000 (age 24)
Haverfordwest, Wales
Alma materThe Talent 1st Organisation
OccupationActress
Years active2017–present

Liv Hill (born 22 June 2000) is a British actress. She received accolades for her roles in the BBC miniseries Three Girls (2017) and the films Jellyfish and The Little Stranger (2018). She has since appeared in The Fight (2018), Elizabeth is Missing (2019), and The Great (2020). She played a young Catherine de' Medici in The Serpent Queen (2022).

Contents

Life

Hill was born in Haverfordwest, Wales. [1] Her father was an Army officer, which led to her living in Cardiff, Germany, Oxford and Nottingham before her family settled in Derbyshire, when she was 9 years old. [1] At age 15, Hill joined Talent 1st actors’ studio in Nottingham. [2] [1]

Career

In 2017, Hill was BAFTA nominated for best supporting actress in her debut role in the BBC miniseries Three Girls , [1] which was based on the Rochdale child sex abuse ring. [3] In 2018, Hill was cast in the James Gardner directed British film Jellyfish , [2] receiving a BIFA Nominated Most promising newcomer for her performance as young carer Sarah. [4] The same year, Hill played Eve in episode 5: "Reclaim the Night" of Snatches: Moments from Women's Lives, a series which also included Jodie Comer. [5]

In 2022, she portrayed the younger Catherine de' Medici in the TV series The Serpent Queen . [6]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes/ref
2017 Three Girls Ruby Bowen BAFTA Nominated: Best supporting actress [3]
2018Snatches: Moments from Women's LivesEve
2018 Jellyfish Sarah BIFA Nominated Most promising newcomer [4]
2018 The Little Stranger BettyFilm
2018 The Fight JordanFilm
2019 Elizabeth is Missing Young MaudTV film
2020 The Great AngelineEpisode - Angeline
2022 The Serpent Queen Young Catherine de' Medici 10 episodes
2023Black Dogfilm
TBA Miss Austen TBAIn-production [7]
2025Film ClubIzzieUpcoming comedy-drama [8]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
2018 British Academy Television Awards BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress Three Girls Nominated [9] [10]
2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival Best Performance in a British Feature Film Jellyfish Won [9] [10]
2018Dinard British Film FestivalSpecial Mention Interpretation AwardWon [11] [10]
2018 British Independent Film Awards Most Promising NewcomerNominated [4] [10]
2019 National Film Awards UK Best NewcomerNominated [10]
2019 London Critics Circle Film Awards Young British/Irish Performer of the Year Jellyfish and The Little Stranger Nominated [12] [10]
2019 The Stage Awards Best Actress in a Play Top Girls , Royal National Theatre Nominated [13]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samantha Morton</span> British actress (born 1977)

Samantha Jane Morton is an English actress. She is known for her work in independent film with dark and tragic themes, in particular period dramas. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including the BAFTA Fellowship, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Catherine Tyson is an English actress. She won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Mona Lisa (1986), which also earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards. She has starred in The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Priest (1994), and Band of Gold (1995–1997). She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2022 for her performance in the film Help.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Olivia Colman</span> British actress (born 1974)

Sarah Caroline Sinclair, known professionally as Olivia Colman, is an English actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, two Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shirley Henderson</span> Scottish actress (born 1965)

Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress. Her accolades include two Scottish BAFTAs, a VFCC Award and an Olivier Award, as well as BAFTA, BIFA, London Critics' Circle, Chlotrudis, Gotham, and Canadian Screen Award nominations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sean Harris</span> British actor

Sean Harris is an English actor. He played Ian Curtis in 24 Hour Party People (2002), Micheletto Corella in The Borgias (2011–2013), Fifield in Prometheus (2012), Solomon Lane in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) and Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Philip in Possum (2018), William Gascoigne in The King (2019) and Henry Peter Teague / Peter Morley in The Stranger (2022).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anne-Marie Duff</span> British actress

Anne-Marie Duff is an English actress and narrator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jenna Coleman</span> English actress (born 1986)

Jenna-Louise Coleman is an English actress. She began her television career by playing Jasmine Thomas in the soap opera Emmerdale from 2005 to 2009, followed by a recurring role in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2009). She made her film debut with a small role in the American superhero film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and made appearances on diverse British period miniseries, including Titanic (2012), and Death Comes to Pemberley (2013).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ruth Wilson</span> British actress

Ruth Wilson is an English actress. She has played the eponymous protagonist in Jane Eyre (2006), Alice Morgan in the BBC psychological crime drama Luther, Alison Lockhart in the Showtime drama The Affair (2014–2018), and the eponymous character in Mrs Wilson (2018). From 2019 to 2022, she portrayed Marisa Coulter in the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials, and for this role she won the 2020 BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actress. Her film credits include The Lone Ranger (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016), and Dark River (2017).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vicky McClure</span> English actress (born 1983)

Vicky Lee McClure is an English actress, model and presenter. She is known for her roles as Detective Inspector Kate Fleming in the BBC series Line of Duty (2012–2021) and Lol Jenkins in Shane Meadows's film This Is England (2006) and its Channel 4 sequel mini-series This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011), and This Is England '90 (2015). Before This is England, she appeared in another of Meadows' films, A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), where she played Ladine. She won the RTS Award and British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Lol in This is England '86 in 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wunmi Mosaku</span> British-Nigerian actress (born 1986)

Oluwunmi Mosaku is a Nigerian-born British actress. She is known for her roles as Joy in the BBC Two miniseries Moses Jones (2009) and Holly Lawson in the ITV series Vera (2011–2012). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016). In 2019, she starred in the fifth series of Luther. In 2020, she starred as Ruby Baptiste in HBO's Lovecraft Country, and starting in 2021, starred as Hunter B-15 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) television series Loki, and reprised the role in the 2024 film Deadpool & Wolverine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Claire Foy</span> British actress (born 1984)

Claire Elizabeth Foy is a British actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016–2023), for which she received various accolades such as a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Sarah Gavron is a British film director. She has directed four short films, and three feature films. Her first film was This Little Life (2003), later followed by Brick Lane (2007) and Village at the End of the World (2012). Her film, Suffragette (2015) is based in the London of 1912 and tells the story of the Suffragette movement based on realistic historical events. Her most recent film is Rocks (2020) which she directed in a creative collaboration with the team and young cast.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johnny Harris (actor)</span> English actor, screenwriter, producer and director

Johnny Harris is an English actor, screenwriter, producer and director.

<i>The Unloved</i> 2009 television film

The Unloved is a British television film starring Molly Windsor, Robert Carlyle, Susan Lynch and Lauren Socha. It is about an eleven-year-old girl called Lucy (Windsor) growing up in a children's home in the UK's care system, and shown through her perspective. It is the directorial debut of Golden Globe Award-winning and two-time Academy Award-nominated actress Samantha Morton. The story is semi-autobiographical, Morton wrote and produced the film in collaboration with screenwriter Tony Grisoni.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Molly Windsor</span> British actress

Molly Windsor is an English actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 2009 Channel 4 television film The Unloved, and she has appeared in Oranges and Sunshine (2010) and The Runaways (2019). She is best known for her performance in the 2017 BBC miniseries Three Girls, for which she won the 2018 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress; in 2017, she was also named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Morfydd Clark</span> Welsh actress (born 17 March 1989)

Morfydd Clark is a Welsh actress. Her appearances include Love & Friendship (2016), Interlude in Prague (2017), and The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019). Also on television, she played Mina Harker in Dracula (2020) and Sister Clara in His Dark Materials (2019).

Antonia Sophia E. Clarke is an English actress and singer. Her films include Altar (2014) and All My Friends Hate Me (2021). On television, she is known for her roles as young Emmeline in the BBC Two film The Thirteenth Tale (2013) and Mary, Queen of Scots in the Starz series The Serpent Queen (2022).

Sennia Nanua is a British actress.

<i>The Serpent Queen</i> American period drama television series

The Serpent Queen is an American historical drama television series about the life of Catherine de' Medici, the 16th century Queen of France, as portrayed by actress Samantha Morton. The series was created by Justin Haythe and is based on the 2004 nonfiction book Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda. The Serpent Queen premiered on Starz on September 11, 2022. In October 2022, Starz renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on July 12, 2024. In October 2024, the series was canceled after two seasons.

Safia Grace Oakley-Green is an English actress. She won a British Independent Film Award for her performance in the horror film Out of Darkness (2022). She was named a 2023 Screen International Star of Tomorrow.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Stars of Tomorrow 2018: Liv Hill (actor)". Screen Daily. 4 October 2018. Archived from the original on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  2. 1 2 Clarke, Cath (24 January 2019). "From Three Girls to Jellyfish: Liv Hill, the young star giving a voice to outsiders". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 March 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Three Girls star Liv Hill's dad says the teenager slept through her Bafta nomination". radiotimes.com. 4 April 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 "Liv Hill". bifa.film. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "'Snatches: Moments From 100 Years Of Women's Lives' TV Review". readysteadycut.com. 6 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "'The Serpent Queen': Liv Hill on Catherine's Shocking Decision and Playing a Young Samantha Morton". collider.com. 8 October 2022.
  7. ↑ Rice, Lynette (7 December 2023). "'Miss Austen': Keeley Hawes & Rose Leslie Join TV Adaptation For Masterpiece". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "Aimee Lou Wood to star alongside Nabhaan Rizwan and Suranne Jones in new BBC romantic comedy-drama Film Club". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  9. 1 2 "Liv Hill". nationaltheatre.org.uk. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Liv Hill Awards". IMDB (Index source only). Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  11. ↑ "Dinard film festival edition 2018". nationaltheatre.org.uk. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  12. ↑ "Nominations for London Critics Circle Awards". hollywoodreporter.com. 18 December 2018.
  13. ↑ "The Stage Nominees and winners". thestage.co.uk. 22 September 2022.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.