Sally Hawkins Net Worth

Sally Hawkins's Quotes

• You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself; [laughs] and failing really badly.
• [on her part in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)]: Oh, I don't even know if I made the final cut. It was one day many years ago. I was still in drama school. A friend was working on it and got me in. I was in a huge audience scene. We were replicated about a thousand times. I wore a chiffon costume. It was quite a look. And I saw Ewan McGregor. He would not remember me. I never told him. I just passed by him. He was playing football, and I was on my way to set. I was just an extra in the village. I got paid 100 quid, I think.
• [on Cate Blanchett, her co-star in Blue Jasmine (2013)]: I was very lucky with Cate. She's incredible, and she's a theater actress as well. She thinks and works - I'm flattering myself by saying this - in a similar way as me. She comes from that training and we had time together in New York to get to know each other. Luckily, she was performing "Uncle Vanya" to great acclaim. That was the first time I saw her in the flesh. Then we had time to just talk and unravel the script. That was invaluable for me. It created such grounding.
• I love Woody Allen because you are there to work and do your job. There is no time for the pleasantries. There's no time for chit-chat. I like that. He is very right to it. I never thought that I'd be lucky enough to work with him once let alone twice. He's incredibly precise and economical with his words. He doesn't want to hang around. He's sometimes incredibly specific. And sometimes he just lets you get on with it, and he steps away. He works incredibly economically and fast, and he doesn't smooth it over. Does that make sense? He doesn't tell you, "Oh that's amazing."
• My family went to Universal Studios and did a Star Trek video spoof. My mum and dad were Klingons. I was Mr. Spock with the ears, and my brother was Captain Kirk. It's one of my most treasured possessions.

Interesting Facts about Sally Hawkins

1. Contributed her writing skills to the BBC Radio 4 comedy show "Concrete Cow".
2. Grew up in southeast London.
3. Graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. [1998]
4. Attended James Allen's Girls' School.
5. Born to Jacqui and Colin Hawkins, noted authors and illustrators of children's books. While Sally has never written any children's book like her parents, she portrayed an author of children's literature in Paddington (2014).
6. Was obsessed with 1940s black and white films in her childhood.
7. Enjoys painting.
8. In 2006, she told a reporter for The Independent that she had been diagnosed with a "chronic condition" (which she did not disclose) that required treatment and which seemed to be responding to treatment.
9. Was an extra on Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) while attending drama school.
10. At the 86th Academy Awards in 2014, she was the only nominated actor in attendance, not to be given a reaction shot, following her "Oscar clip". Following her clip, the monitor broke down, and a black screen was shown. When the monitor was resurrected a few seconds later, it had cut to fellow nominee June Squibb instead.
11. She has portrayed the mother of Craig Roberts's character twice. First in Submarine (2010), then in Jane Eyre (2011).
12. With her Golden Globe victory for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), she joined a small group of actresses, who won a Golden Globe for a performance that was not nominated by the Academy Awards. Other actresses include Nicole Kidman and Kate Winslet.
13. Cate Blanchett and Hawkins became good friends after they co-starred in Blue Jasmine (2013). Blanchett won the Oscar for her performance in the film and mentioned Hawkins in her speech twice. First she thanked "the sublime Sally Hawkins" and then she thanked Carla Meyer "for getting Sally and I together".
14. Has one brother. He's five years older than she is and works as a web designer and illustrator.
15. Cate Blanchett and she jokingly considered wearing crocs and plastic bags to The Oscars (2014), if the weather was bad.
16. Found out about her Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Blue Jasmine (2013) while she was grocery shopping.
17. Was originally cast in The Last Days on Mars (2013), but backed out due to personal commitments. She was replaced by Olivia Williams.
18. 2010: Presented Robert Downey Jr. his Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. Like her, he won the Golden Globe for a performance that he was not subsequently Oscar-nominated for.
19. Spokesperson for Oxfam's East Africa Appeal.
20. Some of her fellow 1998 graduates from Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, includes Tobias Menzies, Robert Wilfort, Maxine Peake and Joanna Page.