Amelia Warner
Encyclopedia
Amelia Warner is an English actress and songwriter. As of October 2011, Warner is a signed musician to Island Records
and works under the name, 'Slow Moving Millie'.
, Merseyside
, the only child of actress Annette Ekblom
and actor Alun Lewis
. Her paternal uncle is actor Hywel Bennett
. When her parents divorced, Warner, then four years old, and her mother moved to London
, England
. Warner studied at the Royal Masonic School for Girls
and, at 16, Fine Arts College
London. She studied History of art
at Goldsmiths College in London.
youth theatre group. She also starred in a 2000 BBC
adaptation of Lorna Doone
and has had supporting roles in recent films such as Æon Flux and Stoned.
television commercial. The track was then released on 17 August 2009. Her second single, "Rewind City" was also used for another advertisment, for Orange UK
, and was directed by Ringan Ledwidge. In October 2011, Warner signed a record deal with Island Records
. Her cover version of The Smiths
1984 B-Side "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
" was released on 11 November 2011 and was selected as the soundtrack to the John Lewis
2011 Christmas advertisment.
Island Records
Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...
and works under the name, 'Slow Moving Millie'.
Early life
Warner was born Amelia Catherine Ekblom in LiverpoolLiverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
, Merseyside
Merseyside
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool...
, the only child of actress Annette Ekblom
Annette Ekblom
Annette Ekblom is a British actress. She is the mother of actress Amelia Warner.She starred as Linda in Willy Russell's musical Blood Brothers when Bill Kenwright's production opened in London in 1988...
and actor Alun Lewis
Alun Lewis (actor)
Alun Lewis is a Welsh actor best known for his role in ITV's Emmerdale as postmaster Vic Windsor and Darryl Stubbs in BBC1 sitcom Birds of a Feather.He was born in Garnant, the son of Sarah Gwen and Gorden Bennett...
. Her paternal uncle is actor Hywel Bennett
Hywel Bennett
Hywel Thomas Bennett is a Welsh film and television actor. Bennett is best known for his recurring title role as James Shelley in the television sitcom Shelley from 1979 to 1984 and its sequel The Return of Shelley from 1988 to 1992....
. When her parents divorced, Warner, then four years old, and her mother moved to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. Warner studied at the Royal Masonic School for Girls
Royal Masonic School
The Royal Masonic School for Girls is an independent school in Rickmansworth, England with both day and boarding pupils. The school was instituted in 1788, with the aim of maintaining the daughters of indigent Freemasons, unable through death, illness, or incapacitation to support their families...
and, at 16, Fine Arts College
Fine Arts College
Fine Arts College is an independent college in Belsize Park, North-West London. It was founded in 1978 by artists Candida Cave and Nicholas Cochrane. It is a small college with never more than 120 students at one time...
London. She studied History of art
History of art
The History of art refers to visual art which may be defined as any activity or product made by humans in a visual form for aesthetical or communicative purposes, expressing ideas, emotions or, in general, a worldview...
at Goldsmiths College in London.
Career
Warner got her start in acting as a member of the Royal Court'sRoyal Court Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...
youth theatre group. She also starred in a 2000 BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
adaptation of Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor....
and has had supporting roles in recent films such as Æon Flux and Stoned.
Filmography
- Kavanagh QCKavanagh QCKavanagh QC is a British television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. It has been shown on ITV3 as recently as August 2011; series 1–6 are available on Region 2 DVDs....
(1998) - CasualtyCasualty (TV series)Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
: "Eye Spy" (1998) - AristocratsAristocrats (TV mini-series)Aristocrats is a 1999 Television series, based on the biography by Stella Tillyard. The series consists of six episodes of 50 minutes each and was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC, starting on 22 June 1999...
(1999) - Mansfield ParkMansfield Park (film)Mansfield Park is a 1999 British romantic comedy-drama film loosely based on Jane Austen's novel of the same name, written and directed by Patricia Rozema. The film differs sharply from the original novel in many respects. For example, the life of Jane Austen is incorporated into the film and the...
(1999) as teenage Fanny Price - Don Quixote (2000)
- QuillsQuillsQuills is a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, Quills re-imagines the last years of the Marquis' incarceration in the insane asylum at...
(2000) as Simone Royer-Collard - Waking the DeadWaking the Dead (TV series)Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...
(2000) - Take a Girl Like YouTake a Girl Like You (TV series)Take a Girl Like You is a 2000 British television comedy series adapted by Andrew Davies from the 1960 novel Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis. It starred Sienna Guillory, Rupert Graves, Hugh Bonneville, Robert Daws, Leslie Phillips, Emma Chambers, Ian Driver and Deborah Cornelius. It was...
(2000) - Lorna DooneLorna Doone (2001 film)Lorna Doone is a 2001 romance/drama television movie version of Richard Doddridge Blackmore's novel of the same name. The film won the Royal Television Society's Television Award for Best Visual Effects by Colin Gorry.- External links :*...
(2000) as Lorna Doone - Mountaineering (BBC Radio, 2002)
- Nine LivesNine Lives (2002 film)Nine Lives is a 2002 horror film starring Paris Hilton. The movie was shot in England and was low budget.-Plot:The movies settles around a group of nine young friends spending the weekend in a Scottish Country house. Members of the group start dying mysteriously as an old curse hungry for English...
(2002) as Laura - Love's BrotherLove's BrotherLove's Brother is a 2004 film written and directed by Jan Sardi.-Main cast:*Giovanni Ribisi - Angelo Donnini*Adam Garcia - Gino Donnini*Joe Petruzzi - Zio Luigi*Amelia Warner - Rosetta*Silvia De Santis - Connie*Barry Otto - Father Alfredo-Plot:...
(2003) - Winter PassingWinter PassingWinter Passing is a 2005 American drama film. It is the directorial debut of playwright Adam Rapp, also known for his work on the show The L Word. The film stars Zooey Deschanel and Ed Harris, with supporting performances by Will Ferrell and Amelia Warner...
(2005) - Æon FluxÆon Flux (film)New Zealander Graeme Revell composed the score for Æon Flux; the soundtrack is available via Varèse Sarabande as advertised on the film's official website -Comic book prequel:...
(2005) as Una Flux - StonedStoned (film)Stoned, also known as The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones in the UK, is a 2005 film about Brian Jones, one of the founding members of The Rolling Stones...
(2005) - Alpha Male (2006)
- Gone (2006)
- The SeekerThe Seeker (film)The Seeker, titled The Dark Is Rising in the United Kingdom and The Seeker: The Dark is Rising in Canada, is a 2007 American film adaptation of the second book in the five-book young adult fantasy series The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. The film is directed by David L...
/ The Dark Is Rising (2007) as Maggie - The EchoThe Echo (2008 film)The Echo is a 2008 American remake Horror film from a Filipino film originally titled Sigaw...
(2008) - Olga? (2010)
Slow Moving Millie
Amelia began her music career in July 2009 when she wrote and performed the song "Beasts" under the name 'Slow Moving Millie' for a Virgin MediaVirgin Media
Virgin Media Inc. is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom...
television commercial. The track was then released on 17 August 2009. Her second single, "Rewind City" was also used for another advertisment, for Orange UK
Orange UK
Orange is a mobile network operator and internet service provider in the United Kingdom, which launched in 1994. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was purchased by France Télécom in 2000, which then adopted the Orange brand for all its other mobile communications activities...
, and was directed by Ringan Ledwidge. In October 2011, Warner signed a record deal with Island Records
Island Records
Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...
. Her cover version of The Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
1984 B-Side "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
The Dream Academy covered "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" in 1984. This version peaked at #83 in the UK Singles Chart. The instrumental version of the song is the better known cover version, since it was used in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off along with an other Dream Academy...
" was released on 11 November 2011 and was selected as the soundtrack to the John Lewis
John Lewis (department store)
-Recent developments:In June 2004, John Lewis announced plans to open its first store in Northern Ireland at the Sprucefield Park development, the province's largest out of town shopping centre, located outside Lisburn and from Belfast. The application was approved in June 2005 and the opening of...
2011 Christmas advertisment.
Albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
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| UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
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Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| 2009 | "Beasts" | — | Renditions |
| 2011 | "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" | 34 | |