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As this year’s Toronto International Film Festival gets underway, British actress Andrea Riseborough is emerging as a tour de force in the film industry. The rising star can be seen in three films being screened at the festival and consequently is catching attention from both industry insiders and the media.
Riseborough, 28, is not a newcomer to the scene. The actress is a former member of the National Youth Theatre, studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and has continuously worked on stage, TV, and in film. Riseborough played a young Margaret Thatcher in the British television production Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley, worked on stage with Kenneth Branagh in Anton Chechkov’s play Ivanov, and appeared in Mike Leigh’s 2008 film Happy-Go-Lucky (one of my personal favorites).
The three films in which Riseborough can currently be seen in at the Toronto festival include Never Let Me Go, starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, and Andrew Garfield; Made in Dagenham, starring Sally Hawkins; and the remake of Brighton Rock starring Lord Richard Attenborough.
Regarding Riseborough’s talents, Brighton Rock’s director Rowan Joffe said: “What Andrea has that many actresses of her generation do not have is a bona fide chameleon-like ability to be totally different from part to part.”
Nigel Cole, who directed Riseborough in Made in Dagenham, also credits her with the same unique ability.
It sounds like Andrea’s prevalence in Toronto might just be the beginning of her rise to even greater prominence!
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