Andrea Riseborough
Andrea Louise Riseborough (born 20 November 1981) is an English actress and producer. She made her film debut with a small part in Venus (2006), and has since appeared in more prominent roles in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Never Let Me Go, Brighton Rock, Made in Dagenham (all 2010), W.E. (2011), Shadow Dancer, Disconnect (both 2012), Welcome to the Punch, Oblivion (both 2013), Birdman (2014), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Battle of the Sexes, The Death of Stalin (both 2017), Mandy, Nancy (both 2018), The Grudge, and Possessor (both 2020). For her performance as a recovering addict in the drama To Leslie (2022), Riseborough received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Outside of film, Riseborough received a BAFTA nomination for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the television film The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), and won critical acclaim for her performances in the Channel 4 miniseries The Devil's Whore (2008) and National Treasure (2016), as well as the BBC One miniseries The Witness for the Prosecution (2016). Her stage credits include August Strindberg's Miss Julie, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (Theatre Royal, Bath, both 2006) and Anton Chekhov's Ivanov (West End, 2008).
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 15.807 |
Birthday | 1981-11-20 |
Place of Birth | Whitley Bay, Northumberland, UK |
Also Known As | 안드레아 라이즈버러, Άντρια Ράισμπορο, アンドレア・ライズボロー, Андреа Райзборо, 安德麗亞·瑞斯波羅格, |
2008
Happy-Go-Lucky
6.579/439
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
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Happy-Go-Lucky
2007
Magicians
5.9/68
A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.
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Magicians
2024
Lee
6.6/10
The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
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Lee
2006
Venus
6.593/140
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and p...
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Venus
2010
Never Let Me Go
6.851/2238
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come...
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Never Let Me Go
2022
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
6.788/711
An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst...
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
2010
Brighton Rock
5.7/103
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
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Brighton Rock
2024
What Remains
5.7/3
In a psychiatric hospital, an alleged serial killer, his therapist, and a police detective seek to solve a brutal cold case before their obsessive que...
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What Remains
2010
Made in Dagenham
6.696/289
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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Made in Dagenham
2011
W.E.
6.418/281
In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning....
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W.E.
2012
Shadow Dancer
5.905/242
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
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Shadow Dancer
2013
Oblivion
6.645/10544
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war wit...
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Oblivion
2013
Welcome to the Punch
5.8/639
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's alway...
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Welcome to the Punch
2008
Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
6.3/6
A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing...
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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley
2011
Resistance
4.8/36
It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wa...
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Resistance
2009
Mad Sad & Bad
4.9/8
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Mad Sad & Bad
2013
Disconnect
7.055/1103
A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a mean...
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Disconnect
2022
My Name Is Andrea
6.5/2
A rousing portrait of feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, one of the most controversial and misunderstood figures of the 20th century, who fought passiona...
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My Name Is Andrea
2024
Funny Birds
6.1/15
Charlie returns from boarding school to take care of her sick mother Laura, owner of a small organic egg farm in the New Jersey countryside. It's a st...
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Funny Birds
2014
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
7.466/12673
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night appr...
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2008
Love You More
6/11
Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' during the summer of 1978.
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Love You More
2014
The Silent Storm
5/20
An enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island finds herself caught between her minister husband and the delinquent who is sent to live with...
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The Silent Storm
2015
That Dog
5.4/7
A dark comedy of errors unfolds as two interloping idiots inadvertently wreak havoc on the lives of others.
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That Dog
2015
Hidden
6.884/978
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
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Hidden
2017
Shepherds and Butchers
6.31/71
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
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Shepherds and Butchers
The Queen of Fashion
0/0
The Queen of Fashion details the ups and downs of Blow’s life, championing unknown and marginalised fashion figures like Alexander McQueen, Philip Tre...
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The Nest
0/0
Two neighbours strike up an unlikely friendship, sometimes to the disapproval of others around them. Seeing the lack of care that her elderly neighbou...
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The Noise of Time
0/0
The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when Shostakovich, aged 30, faces Stalin’s wrath after h...
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The Noise of Time
2017
Battle of the Sexes
6.773/1824
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
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Battle of the Sexes
2017
The Death of Stalin
7.011/1829
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl...
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The Death of Stalin
2016
The Witness for the Prosecution
0/0
The hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha Chris...
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The Witness for the Prosecution
2016
Nocturnal Animals
7.428/7642
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, s...
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Nocturnal Animals
2020
Burden
6.1/69
Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, un...
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Burden
2016
Mindhorn
6.089/281
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer say...
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Mindhorn
2005
A Very Social Secretary
5.8/5
Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up f...
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A Very Social Secretary
2006
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
6.2/6
In 19th century Victorian England, Mrs. Isabella Beeton produced what became an essential book for housewives of the day. She was married at a relativ...
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2005
Whatever Love Means
3.5/2
Strap in for a rollercoaster ride through the emotional worlds of love and royalty in an original WE Channel movie exploring the enduring, 30-year rom...
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Whatever Love Means
2018
Nancy
5.8/111
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable do...
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Nancy
2018
Mandy
6.195/1872
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapu...
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Mandy
2019
The Grudge
5.5/1175
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is...
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The Grudge
2018
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
0/0
In 2017 Tyneside Cinema turned 80.
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2019
The Kindness of Strangers
6.306/108
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, t...
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The Kindness of Strangers
2020
Possessor
6.356/846
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As s...
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Possessor
2015
Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)
7.2/4
A making-of documentary for the 2014 film "Birdman".
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Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)
2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
5.6/14
Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew...
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2021
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
6.927/436
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public...
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2020
Luxor
6/30
When British aid worker Hana returns to Luxor, a sleepy city on the banks of the Nile, she comes across Sultan, a talented archeologist and former lov...
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Luxor
2022
Here Before
5.8/30
Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.
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Here Before
2022
Please Baby Please
5.8/31
After witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of 1950s Manhattan, newlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that aw...
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Please Baby Please
2020
A Heightened World
0/0
The cast and crew talk about the look and feel of the film Possessor.
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A Heightened World
2020
Identity Crisis: Bringing Possessor to Life
0/0
The cast and crew talk about the core themes of the film and the seeds of the film.
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Identity Crisis: Bringing Possessor to Life
2022
Amsterdam
6.061/1448
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plo...
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Amsterdam
2022
To Leslie
7.014/177
A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running o...
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