Hannah Taylor-Gordon
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Hannah Taylor-Gordon is an English actress. She made her film debut in the 1993 movie The House of the Spirits
. She is known for her role as Anne Frank
in the TV miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story
for which she received both an Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination. She has also played Lina in the movie :Jakob the Liar and Irene in the movie :The Fine Art of Love, based on the novel by :Frank Wedekind. Taylor-Gordon studies in :LAMDA, an acting school of London.
. Her first film role was in the 1993 movie The House of the Spirits
, where she played young Blanca Trueba. The House of the Spirits starred Meryl Streep
, Jeremy Irons
and Antonio Banderas
, and it received fine reviews. Taylor-Gordon is probably best known for playing Anne Frank
in the 2001 ABC
television movie Anne Frank: The Whole Story
, which earned her nominations for both a Golden Globe
and an Emmy Award
. The miniseries co-starred Ben Kingsley
, Brenda Blethyn
, and Lili Taylor
.
She also starred as Lina, a little girl who suffers an ill fate of living in a Nazi ghetto, in the 1999 movie Jakob the Liar
, which co-starred Robin Williams
. In the 2004 movie Secret Passage
, Taylor-Gordon played a major supporting role alongside John Turturro
.
In 2005 Taylor-Gordon acted in the film The Fine Art of Love. She played Irene, in the movie, starring alongside Natalia Tena
, Mary Nighy
, and Jacqueline Bisset
.
and Italian
at University College London
and trained at the New York method acting school Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
in 2008 and is now studying at :LAMDA. She is an avid :reader and enjoys :tennis and :horseback riding.
The House of the Spirits (film)
The House of the Spirits is a 1993 German-Danish-Portuguese dramatic film starring Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder and Antonio Banderas. The supporting cast includes Vanessa Redgrave, María Conchita Alonso, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Jan Niklas...
. She is known for her role as Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...
in the TV miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a mini-series based on the book Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller. The mini-series aired on ABC on May 20 and 21, 2001. The series starred :Ben Kingsley, :Brenda Blethyn, :Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and :Lili Taylor...
for which she received both an Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination. She has also played Lina in the movie :Jakob the Liar and Irene in the movie :The Fine Art of Love, based on the novel by :Frank Wedekind. Taylor-Gordon studies in :LAMDA, an acting school of London.
Career
Taylor-Gordon has been acting since she was four years of age. Her first acting role was on the UK television series 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...
. Her first film role was in the 1993 movie The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits (film)
The House of the Spirits is a 1993 German-Danish-Portuguese dramatic film starring Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder and Antonio Banderas. The supporting cast includes Vanessa Redgrave, María Conchita Alonso, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Jan Niklas...
, where she played young Blanca Trueba. The House of the Spirits starred Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with...
, Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many London theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the...
and Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas
José Antonio Domínguez Banderas , better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish film actor, film director, film producer and singer...
, and it received fine reviews. Taylor-Gordon is probably best known for playing Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...
in the 2001 ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
television movie Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a mini-series based on the book Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller. The mini-series aired on ABC on May 20 and 21, 2001. The series starred :Ben Kingsley, :Brenda Blethyn, :Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and :Lili Taylor...
, which earned her nominations for both a Golden Globe
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
and an Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
. The miniseries co-starred Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE is a British actor. He has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
, Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Anne Blethyn, OBE is an English actress who has worked in theatre, television and film. Blethyn has received two Academy Award nominations, two SAG Award nominations, two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one...
, and Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor
Lili Anne Taylor is an American actress notable for her appearances in such award-winning indie films as Mystic Pizza, Say Anything..., Short Cuts and I Shot Andy Warhol, and the acclaimed TV show Six Feet Under....
.
She also starred as Lina, a little girl who suffers an ill fate of living in a Nazi ghetto, in the 1999 movie Jakob the Liar
Jakob the Liar
Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American tragicomedy film directed by Peter Kassovitz and starring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Bob Balaban. The movie is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland in the times of the Holocaust and is based on the book by...
, which co-starred Robin Williams
Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
. In the 2004 movie Secret Passage
Secret Passage (film)
Secret Passage is a 2004 movie directed and written by Ademir Kenovic. The movie stars John Turturro, Katherine Borowitz, Tara Fitzgerald, and Hannah Taylor-Gordon. In the United Kingdom, the movie is mostly known as The Lion's Mouth.-Plot:...
, Taylor-Gordon played a major supporting role alongside John Turturro
John Turturro
John Michael Turturro is an American actor, writer and director known for his roles in the films Do the Right Thing , Miller's Crossing , Barton Fink , Quiz Show , The Big Lebowski , O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the Transformers film series...
.
In 2005 Taylor-Gordon acted in the film The Fine Art of Love. She played Irene, in the movie, starring alongside Natalia Tena
Natalia Tena
Natalia Gastiain Tena is a British actress and musician. She sings and plays the accordion in the band Molotov Jukebox. In her acting career, Tena is best known for playing Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter film series, and Ellie in the movie About a Boy.-Life and career:Tena was born in...
, Mary Nighy
Mary Nighy
Mary Nighy is an English actress and film maker. She was named one of the UK Film Council's breakthrough Brits in 2005.-Work:Nighy is director of Foster Films...
, and Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress. She has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award. She is known for her roles in the films Bullitt , Airport , The Deep , Class , and the TV series Nip/Tuck in 2006...
.
Personal life
Hannah Taylor-Gordon was born in :London, the daughter of Andrew and Clare Gordon. She is the eldest of their eight children. One of her sisters is actress Talya Gordon. Hannah most recently performed at the :High Tide writing festival in :Suffolk. She studied Art HistoryArt history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
and Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
at University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
and trained at the New York method acting school Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
__notoc__The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute is an acting school located at 115 East 15th Street between Union Square East and Irving Place in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, as well as at 7936 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California...
in 2008 and is now studying at :LAMDA. She is an avid :reader and enjoys :tennis and :horseback riding.
Films
| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The House of the Spirits The House of the Spirits (film) The House of the Spirits is a 1993 German-Danish-Portuguese dramatic film starring Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder and Antonio Banderas. The supporting cast includes Vanessa Redgrave, María Conchita Alonso, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Jan Niklas... |
1993 | Young Blanca Trueba | |
| Don't Get Me Started Don't Get Me Started (1994 film) Don't Get Me Started is a 1994 movie directed and written by Arthur Ellis. The movie was released in 1994 in both United Kingdom and Italy, but in the United States it was released in June 2, 1995... |
1994 | Cricket | Uncredited |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral Four Weddings and a Funeral Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant... |
1994 | Young Bridesmaid - Wedding Two | |
| Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Frankenstein is a 1994 American horror film directed by Kenneth Branagh. The film starred Branagh, Robert De Niro, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter. It was produced on a budget of $45 million... |
1994 | Young Elizabeth | |
| Saint-Ex Saint-Ex Saint-Ex is a 1997 British film biography of French author-adventurer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, filmed and distributed in the United Kingdom, and featuring Bruno Ganz, Eleanor Bron, and Miranda Richardson. The script was by Frank Cottrell Boyce, while the writer's sons, Aidan and George, portrayed... |
1996 | Young Gabrielle | |
| Passion's Way | 1999 | Effie Leath | Alternately titled The Reef |
| Mansfield Park Mansfield 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 | Young Fanny | |
| Jakob the Liar Jakob the Liar Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American tragicomedy film directed by Peter Kassovitz and starring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Bob Balaban. The movie is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland in the times of the Holocaust and is based on the book by... |
1999 | Lina Kronstein | |
| Anne Frank: The Whole Story Anne Frank: The Whole Story Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a mini-series based on the book Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller. The mini-series aired on ABC on May 20 and 21, 2001. The series starred :Ben Kingsley, :Brenda Blethyn, :Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and :Lili Taylor... |
2001 | :Anne Frank | |
| Secret Passage Secret Passage (film) Secret Passage is a 2004 movie directed and written by Ademir Kenovic. The movie stars John Turturro, Katherine Borowitz, Tara Fitzgerald, and Hannah Taylor-Gordon. In the United Kingdom, the movie is mostly known as The Lion's Mouth.-Plot:... |
2004 | Victoria | |
| Vipere Au Poing | 2004 | Fine | |
| The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha The Fine Art of Love is a 2006 film directed by John Irvin. The film, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Hannah Taylor-Gordon and Mary Nighy, is based on Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls by the German playwright Frank Wedekind. It received its premiere at the 2005 Venice Film... |
2005 | Irene |
Television
| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casualty Casualty (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... |
1991 | Unknown | TV Series |
| Against All Odds: Lost and Found Against All Odds: Lost and Found Against All Odds: Lost and Found is a 50-minute-long 1994 TV movie which aired in November 8, 1994. It was produced by the :British Broadcasting Company. The movie was directed by :Kim Flitcroft, written by :Kate Wood, and it starred :Hannah Taylor-Gordon.... |
1994 | Pam, as a child | TV Series |
| Buffalo Girls Buffalo Girls (TV movie) Buffalo Girls is a 1995 television movie adapted from the novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry. Directed by Rod Hardy, the movie starred Gabriel Byrne, Anjelica Huston, and Melanie Griffith. It was nominated for two Golden Globe and several Emmy awards, winning one for sound mixing.-Plot:Jane... |
1995 | Janey | |
| Anne Frank: The Whole Story Anne Frank: The Whole Story Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a mini-series based on the book Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller. The mini-series aired on ABC on May 20 and 21, 2001. The series starred :Ben Kingsley, :Brenda Blethyn, :Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and :Lili Taylor... |
2001 | Anne Frank Anne Frank Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt... |
Nominated — AFI TV Award for AFI Actor of the Year - Female - Movie or Mini-Series American Film Institute The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act... Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film -1990s:*1996: Helen Mirren - Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment**Kirstie Alley - Suddenly**Lolita Davidovich - Harvest on Fire**Laura Dern - The Siege of Ruby Ridge**Jena Malone - Hidden in America... |
| The Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments (2006) The Ten Commandments is a miniseries that dramatizes the biblical story of Moses.-Plot:Moses's mother, Jochebed, saves her baby from the edict of the Pharaoh that all newborn male Hebrew children must die by placing him in a basket on the Nile River... |
2006 | Rachel |