Potc meme [3/5] characters:
? Tia Dalma / Calypso
? Tia Dalma / Calypso
Many things you were, Davy Jones, but never cruel. You have corrupted your purpose, and so yourself, and you did hide away what should always have been mine!
Naomie Harris Born September 6, 1976. Starred as Selena~28 Days Later, Tia Dalma/Calypso~2nd+3rd Pirates of the Caribbean, Eve Moneypenny in Skyfall and SPECTRE.Winnie Mandela in Mandela:Long Walk to Freedom.Southpaw, Our Kind of Traitor,Moonlight (Oscar Nominee) plus Collateral Beauty and Jungle Book (2018)
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Thursday, 30 October 2014
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Monday, 13 January 2014
"I cried every day at university": Bond girl Naomie Harris reveals how working class roots helped beat bullies - 22nd October 2012
"I cried every day at
university": Bond girl
Naomie Harris reveals
how working class roots
helped beat bullies
Bond girl Naomie Harris set to become one of British cinema's most bankable stars
Getty
Tough Naomie Harris has revealed how she defeated school bullies and university discrimination – proving that, with stunning looks and brains, she has all the qualities needed to be a brilliant Bond girl.
London-born Naomie has kept a low profile despite roles in 28 Days Later, Miami Vice and Pirates of the Caribbean.
But her new job portraying an MI6 agent called Eve alongside Daniel Craig in the latest James Bond film Skyfall, is expected to make her one of the world’s most sought-after actresses.
The spotlight marks a major turnaround for the 36-year-old, who admits she was a “bookwormish” teenager with few friends, who “cried every day” during her time at Cambridge University.
As the only child of a single-mother on benefits from Finsbury Park, North London, the actress felt alienated by the scores of public-schooled students around her as she studied social and political sciences at Pembroke College.
FilmMagic
TNI Press
She said: “I hated Cambridge. I was very unhappy and cried every day.
“I come from a very working-class background, so Cambridge was a huge culture shock. When I went Mum said I wouldn’t fit in and she was right. The people there were so different to me and I couldn’t connect with them on any level.
“They talked about Eton and skiing and here was I, this black girl from North London.”
Naomie’s Jamaican mother Carmen was just 18 when she had her daughter.
She had no relationship with her estranged father, who is not named on her birth certificate.
She has only met him twice – once when he approached her in the street, aged seven, and the second time at the suggestion of her friend to re-establish contact with him in 2010.
“I’ve been to his house and spoken to him,” Naomie said simply, adding that she feels “no” connection to him. The recent meeting did little to build bridges.
“I feel it’s too late,” she added. “I don’t really need fathering any more. I’m still working out what I want from the relationship and whether, in fact, I do want anything at all.”
FremantleMedia Ltd / Rex Feature
With a child and on benefits, Carmen put herself through university, taking Naomie along to classes with her. The determined can-do attitude certainly rubbed off on the youngster. “I’d sit in the corner during her lectures and do colouring in,” she said. “We used to do our homework together.
“She was a brilliant mother and incredibly inspirational, but she was very busy.”
While Carmen’s studies eventually paid off with a successful career as a scriptwriter for projects including EastEnders, Naomie got the acting bug early on, joining a drama group aged seven.
By 10 she was a regular on BBC children’s television show Simon And The Witch – but far from making her popular, her success made her the focus for bullies’ taunts.
Naomie, who also starred in kids’ favourite The Tomorrow People, said: “I hated school. I didn’t want to go. I don’t know why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.
“It was name-calling, people not wanting to be my friend, having no one to play with.
“I bunked off a lot. I would go across the road and sit in the park. When I was 16 I wanted to leave school and act, but my mum begged me to stay so that I’d have qualifications in case acting didn’t work out.”
Naomie has won big roles in movies, despite sticking to her principles, such as refusing to strip for 2006 blockbuster Miami Vice.
But unfortunately she has picked up a few Hollywood-style fads along the way – one of which even put her life at risk.
She said: “I am totally obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey for me.
“I became a raw foodist and got really ill. It was hard, especially in England in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill I was anaemic, so I stopped and became a total vitamin junkie.”
Since then her appetites have changed and she sank her teeth into her role as Eve, adding: “I’ve been stunt driving and firing machine guns, which I’ve discovered I have a real taste for.”
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Bond girl Naomie Harris reveals how working class roots helped beat bullies
"I cried every day at university": Bond girl Naomie Harris reveals how working class roots helped beat bullies
Bond girl Naomie Harris set to become one of British cinema's most bankable star
Getty
Tough Naomie Harris has revealed how she defeated school bullies and university discrimination – proving that, with stunning looks and brains, she has all the qualities needed to be a brilliant Bond girl.
London-born Naomie has kept a low profile despite roles in 28 Days Later, Miami Vice and Pirates of the Caribbean.
But her new job portraying an MI6 agent called Eve alongside Daniel Craig in the latest James Bond film Skyfall, is expected to make her one of the world’s most sought-after actresses.
The spotlight marks a major turnaround for the 36-year-old, who admits she was a “bookwormish” teenager with few friends, who “cried every day” during her time at Cambridge University.
As the only child of a single-mother on benefits from Finsbury Park, North London, the actress felt alienated by the scores of public-schooled students around her as she studied social and political sciences at Pembroke College.
FilmMagic
TNI Press
She said: “I hated Cambridge. I was very unhappy and cried every day.
“I come from a very working-class background, so Cambridge was a huge culture shock. When I went Mum said I wouldn’t fit in and she was right. The people there were so different to me and I couldn’t connect with them on any level.
“They talked about Eton and skiing and here was I, this black girl from North London.”
Naomie’s Jamaican mother Carmen was just 18 when she had her daughter.
She had no relationship with her estranged father, who is not named on her birth certificate.
She has only met him twice – once when he approached her in the street, aged seven, and the second time at the suggestion of her friend to re-establish contact with him in 2010.
“I’ve been to his house and spoken to him,” Naomie said simply, adding that she feels “no” connection to him. The recent meeting did little to build bridges.
“I feel it’s too late,” she added. “I don’t really need fathering any more. I’m still working out what I want from the relationship and whether, in fact, I do want anything at all.”
FremantleMedia Ltd / Rex Feature
With a child and on benefits, Carmen put herself through university, taking Naomie along to classes with her. The determined can-do attitude certainly rubbed off on the youngster. “I’d sit in the corner during her lectures and do colouring in,” she said. “We used to do our homework together.
“She was a brilliant mother and incredibly inspirational, but she was very busy.”
While Carmen’s studies eventually paid off with a successful career as a scriptwriter for projects including EastEnders, Naomie got the acting bug early on, joining a drama group aged seven.
By 10 she was a regular on BBC children’s television show Simon And The Witch – but far from making her popular, her success made her the focus for bullies’ taunts.
Naomie, who also starred in kids’ favourite The Tomorrow People, said: “I hated school. I didn’t want to go. I don’t know why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.
“It was name-calling, people not wanting to be my friend, having no one to play with.
“I bunked off a lot. I would go across the road and sit in the park. When I was 16 I wanted to leave school and act, but my mum begged me to stay so that I’d have qualifications in case acting didn’t work out.”
Naomie has won big roles in movies, despite sticking to her principles, such as refusing to strip for 2006 blockbuster Miami Vice.
But unfortunately she has picked up a few Hollywood-style fads along the way – one of which even put her life at risk.
She said: “I am totally obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey for me.
“I became a raw foodist and got really ill. It was hard, especially in England in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill I was anaemic, so I stopped and became a total vitamin junkie.”
Since then her appetites have changed and she sank her teeth into her role as Eve, adding: “I’ve been stunt driving and firing machine guns, which I’ve discovered I have a real taste for.”
Monday, 11 March 2013
Pleasure island: Actress Naomie Harris returns to Jamaica for latest TV role
Pleasure island: Actress Naomie Harris returns to Jamaica for latest TV role
As an actress I've been lucky to be involved in a number of movies filmed in the Caribbean. I was in After The Sunset, with Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek, which was shot in the Bahamas. And, in perhaps my best-known role, I was Tia Dalma in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films with Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley, which was also shot in the Bahamas, in Freeport.
Sun, sea and Sandals: The luxury Whitehouse resort
I've been to the Caribbean many times, especially when I was growing up as my mother was born in Jamaica and we used to go there when I was a child. But, for various reasons, I hadn't been back for 17 years.
So when I had the chance to return to complete filming on the new BBC adaptation of Small Island, based on Andrea Levy's novel, I was really excited.
I play the main character Hortense, one of the generation of Jamaicans who, similar to my grandparents, emigrated from Jamaica and struggled to make a new life in Britain. The story goes through the post-war years up to the modern day, showing how much things have changed for the better.
Most of the filming took place in Northern Ireland as Belfast 'played' the part of postwar London. I spent two months in the city which was one of the nicest places I have visited - the people are so friendly.
On the flight there I sat next to a viscount, who invited me and my friends to have a marvellous dinner at his house in County Fermanagh because he wanted to show us how welcoming his country is. Northern Ireland was great and I was certainly sad to leave, but it was wonderful to head off to Jamaica and get some Caribbean sun.
Jamaica tends to get a bad Press as there are often reports of violence. You may not want to linger in the capital Kingston, but outside the city I found the island delightful, with the local people very kind and friendly.
I decided to fly out my mother, stepfather, brother and sister so when filming finished we could enjoy a family holiday - the perfect chance to unwind after all the hard work.
All aboard: Naomie finds her sea legs
When I was little, my mother and I used to have a Jamaican holiday every year. But it was so long ago that I had no particular memories of places. What I did remember, though, were the smells and tastes of the island.
Had things changed much in the past 20 years or so? My mother and stepfather didn't think it had altered as much as they had expected, but there was the occasional disappointment.
My mother was particularly anxious to revisit Port Royal where my parents had enjoyed a wonderful holiday years ago. Port Royal was once called 'the richest and wickedest city in the world'. It is straight out of Pirates Of The Caribbean, with a history rich in tales about Spanish gold looted on the high seas by the notorious 'Brethren of the Coast', as the local pirates were called.
But Mum was surprised to find that hotels were closing because of a lack of visitors. This seems extraordinary because it is a fascinating town and well worth a trip.
The places thriving on Jamaica are the all-inclusive resorts. We spent a week in the Whitehouse, a Sandals resort on the southern coast, 25 miles from Negril.
In its brochure, the Whitehouse European Village & Spa talks about 'a place completely unspoiled by the ravages of time, where the alabaster-white sand beaches bear no footprints, and the lush greenery and richly-coloured flowering vines scent the air with the purest of perfumes'.
And indeed it feels like heaven on earth: surrounded by a 500-acre nature reserve, the Whitehouse boasts two beaches more than two miles in length. It was just what I needed, somewhere to flop and recharge the batteries. But if you do want a busy holiday, lots of sporting activities are included in the price, such as sailing, scuba-diving, water-skiing and windsurfing.
One of the biggest attractions is the food, also included in the price. There are six restaurants, including Italian and Asian fine dining and a French cafe offering patisseries and crepes. They also have lots of local Jamaican food, but not, alas, my favourite curried goat. I grew up on it, cooked by my aunt who made a brilliant curry.
Naomie as Tia Dalma in Pirates of the Caribbean
As I am away filming so often, travelling can seem a little too much like work. My most adventurous trip abroad was a climbing holiday in Mexico which I did on my own.
Usually, if I want a break I prefer to head for the English countryside. I've recently had great stays at Cliveden in Berkshire, and at the Rookery Hall Hotel in Nantwich in Cheshire where the Beckhams had their engagement party.
My next big project is a film based on the life story of the musician Ian Dury in which I play the part of his partner. It's a great story but filming will be nearer Billericay than Barbados.
I don't envisage hitting the beach much on that one.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1228296/Pleasure-island-Actress-Naomie-Harris-returns-Jamaica-latest-TV-role.html#ixzz2LpA1cLix
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Thursday, 20 December 2012
Photos : Naomie plays Tia Dalma in Pirates of The Caribbean 2 and 3
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