Naomie's TV and Film Credits

Monday, 12 October 2015

Life is about enjoying, but mine has never been about that -Sunday Times 11.10.15

Life is about 

enjoying, but mine 

has never been 

about that

She’s the girl from a single-parent family in north London who fought her way to Cambridge and onto the red carpet. Naomie Harris, aka Miss Moneypenny, talks about sacrificing happiness for her career

Giles Hattersley Published: 11 October 2015
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Naomie Harris is best known in the film industry for two things — playing Moneypenny in the Bond movies and having laser-focused ambition. She’s back on screens in Spectre at the end of the month opposite Daniel Craig, so no reassessment required there. But the 39-year-old actress and self-confessed “Finsbury Park girl”, who got herself from a single-parent home to study at Cambridge and became a film star, might finally be done with ambition.
She has been pretty thrusty in her time. “My thing was always ‘work hard’, ‘succeed’. Now I want to be less led by society’s goals and dreams, because they’re a bit f*****-up.” Given where she’s sitting, this comes as a surprise. Normally, after a day being shot for a magazine cover (ours), to promote the follow-up to the highest-grossing Bond film of all time (Skyfall, $1.1bn), an actress might permit herself a “nailed it” moment. But Harris........read more here

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