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)
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Naomie Harris in Mary Katrantzou at the 2013 Audi International Polo
SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2013
Naomie Harris in Mary Katrantzou at the 2013 Audi International Polo
Naomie Harris attended the 2013 Audi International Polo today which was held at the Guards Polo Club in Egham, England.
Naomie posed on the grass in the MARY KATRANTZOU FALL 2013 strapless branch & rainbow cocoon like silk faille dress paired with black strappy sandals.
Love this dress and the styling of Naomie's look was simple but perfect. Side parted straight locks, light make-up and a black clutch completed her gorgeous look.
You can get Naomie's Mary Katrantzou dress at LUISA VIA ROMA & BARNEYS NY.
Photos:Getty, Style.com
Monday, 20 January 2014
Mandela Film Rakes In NAACP Image Award Nominations
Mandela Film Rakes In NAACP Image Award Nominations
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom received four nominations for the 45th NAACP Image Awards / Videovision Entertainment (p)
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom received four nominations for the 45th NAACP Image Awards, it was announced in Pasadena, California last night. The film received nominations for Outstanding Motion Picture, Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture (Idris Elba), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Naomie Harris) and Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Justin Chadwick).
The NAACP Image Awards are presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honour outstanding people in film, television, music and literature.
Other multiple Image Award nominees are 12 Years A Slave with seven nominations, two of which for Supporting Actress; Lee Daniels'The Butler with eight nominations including three for Supporting Actor and Fruitvale Station with five nominations.
Producer, Anant Singh commented, "The NAACP Image Awards are one of the most prestigious and we are hugely excited with this honour. My congratulations go to Idris, Naomie and Justin, together with the tens of thousands of people in South Africa who came together to work so passionately on this film."
The 45th annual NAACP Image Awards ceremony will be held on 22 February 2014 and will be broadcast on the TV One channel in the United States.
Friday, 17 January 2014
Photos: Naomie at the Party for U2's "Ordinary Love" from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'
Naomie Harris and Bono attend The Weinstein Company Hosts A Private Party With U2 In Support Of Their Original Song "Ordinary Love" From 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' at Sunset Marquis Hotel & Villas on January 6, 2014 in West Hollywood, California.
Harris, Idris, Chiwetel and the great UK talent drain
Idris, Chiwetel and the great UK talent drain…
Chiwetel Ejiofor in The Shadow Line.
In the last couple of weeks I’ve seen two films featuring excellent leading performances from British actors – Idris Elba (in Mandela – The Long Walk to Freedom, which also stars the wonderful Naomie Harris) and Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave.
If you’ve seen these already, you’ll know how great the performances in both of these films are. If you’ve yet to see them then you’re in for a treat. As I say, they show off the excellent acting talent the UK has to offer.I just hope that we don’t lose performers like Elba and Ejiofor to the US all together now following their acclaimed performances.
If we want to stop the drain of talent looking to other countries for work, changes are needed behind the scenes, as well as in front of the cameraI say this because it’s been a long-held complaint about the UK that it does not provide enough roles for its black, Asian and minority ethic performers. And with Elba and Ejiofor currently wowing audiences in cinemas, Hollywood will be keen to hold on to them. Great for them – bad for us.
Because surely we want home-grown talent such as this appearing in our home-grown content? We should be rushing to give them parts in our TV shows, films and in the theatre. Sadly, it seems black actors look outside of the UK for roles.
The Stage has written about this issue before, back in 2011. Paterson Joseph, at the time, said black actors face challenges because they work in a country that is “a majority white country”, where dramas are mainly written by white people.
And he seems to be right. Last year, a report by Creative Skillset revealed a large drop in the number of black, Asian and ethnic minority people working in the creative industries.
It found that in television alone, only 7.5% of the workforce is made up of people from a black, Asian or ethnic minority group, down from 9% in 2009 and 9.9% in 2006.
It also showed that black, Asian and minority ethnic [BAME] people now make up just 5.4% of the total workforce across all the creative media sectors compared with 6.7% in 2009.
That would suggest we are moving in the wrong direction – and if we want to stop the drain of talent looking to other countries for work, changes are needed behind the scenes, as well as in front of the camera.
And when black actors are in front of a camera, they should be in roles that are complex and real. Last year, Labour politician Chuka Umunna waded into the debate, and lamented the number of black performers quitting the UK for the US, because any roles that they do land here tend to be stereotyped.
Umunna added:
If I am wrong about this, then why do so many black British actors have to leave the UK for the US to get decent film and television roles that fall outside the stereotypes?As far as Elba is concerned, you might say that we lost him a long time ago. From what I can see, he left the UK for the US quite early on in his career – and he has since made huge waves there, not least in The Wire. He has of course been seen on the UK in Luther – a part that earned him huge critical acclaim. But the simple truth is, the parts he has taken here in the UK are fewer compared with those he has had in the US. Similarly, Ejiofor, while enjoying stints here in Dancing on the Edge and The Shadow Line, looks likely to be focusing now on his film career in the US.
Let’s just hope that UK producers and writers are able to appeal to them with parts that give them, and others like them, the chance to demonstrate the full scope of their talent, in complex and interesting roles.
Only last year, for example, Zawe Ashton, star of Fresh Meat on Channel 4, complained:
You want to show your range, but the complexity of roles isn’t there for black actors.Which is, quite frankly, ridiculous.
The message is clear: give our finest talent – irrespective of their skin colour – the roles they deserve, or lose them to other countries. It’s as simple as that.
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
FAULT WINTER 2013-14 (ISSUE 17 – THE OTHER ISSUE) available to pre-order
FAULT WINTER 2013-14 (ISSUE 17 – THE OTHER ISSUE) – NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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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