Andrea Riseborough Trivia | 49 facts about the actress

Andrea Riseborough is an English actress and she is nominated for her first Academy Award for her performance in “To Leslie”.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the actress.

1. Her full name is Andrea Louise Riseborough
2. She was born 20 November 1981
3. She is an English actress and producer
4. She made her film debut with a small part in Venus (2006)
5. Since she has 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)
6. For her performance as a recovering addict in the drama To Leslie (2022), Riseborough received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress
7. Outside of film, Riseborough received a BAFTA nomination for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the television film The Long Walk to Finchley (2008)
8. She won critical acclaim for her performances in the Channel 4 miniseries The Devil’s Whore (2008) and National Treasure (2016)
9. As well as the BBC One miniseries The Witness for the Prosecution (2016)
10. 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)
11. Riseborough was born in Wallsend, near Newcastle upon Tyne, the daughter of Isabel Johnson, a secretary, and George Riseborough, a car dealer
12. She grew up in Whitley Bay
13. In reference to The Long Walk to Finchley, she has described her parents as “working class Thatcherites”
14. She appeared at the People’s Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, in the play Riding England Sidesaddle by Christopher Goulding, as Celia Fiennes
15. Riseborough was a member of the Young People’s Theatre for five years
16. Riseborough spent her schooldays at the independent school, Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School
17. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2005
18. She is a member of National Youth Theatre
19. Riseborough appeared in the 2010 films Made in Dagenham and Mark Romanek’s adaptation of Never Let Me Go
20. She starred in the US premiere of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in January 2010
21. The production was directed by Joe Mantello and co-starred Hugh Dancy and Ben Whishaw
22. She appears in Rowan Joffé’s film adaptation of Brighton Rock alongside Helen Mirren and John Hurt
23. She worked with The Devil’s Mistress author Peter Flannery on his screenplay based on the life of Angelica Fanshawe with Michael Fassbender
24. She played the role of Wallis Simpson in W.E., a film directed by Madonna
25. She stars alongside Michael Sheen and Iwan Rheon in Resistance, an adaptation of an Owen Sheers novel
26. The film was released on 25 November 2011
27. She writes with her creative partner, actor Tom Burke, and with Mike Leigh
28. Riseborough starred with Alexander Skarsgård in the thriller Hidden, a low-budget film directed by The Duffer Brothers
29. Hidden was released for streaming September 2015
30. She appeared alongside Tom Cruise in Oblivion (2013), in a supporting role
31. She co-starred in the acting ensemble of Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), which won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards
32. Riseborough also shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for the film
33. She co-starred opposite Steve Coogan in apartheid drama Shepherds and Butchers (2016)
34. She joined the cast of Netflix’s Bloodline for Season 2, as a series regular character, Evangeline
35. She acted as Emma Stone’s love interest in the biographical sports film Battle of the Sexes, based on the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
36. She appeared as Stalin’s daughter in the 2017 comedy-drama film The Death of Stalin and was praised by Variety for the “shrewd, multi-layered complexity” of her performance
37. She starred opposite Garrett Hedlund in Andrew Heckler’s indie feature Burden
38. She was cast in Waco, a six-part television series about the 51-day 1993 standoff between the ATF, FBI, and David Koresh’s Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas
39. The first episode was released on 24 January 2018
40. Riseborough has been cast in Lone Scherfig’s The Kindness of Strangers as an ER nurse who runs an eclectic therapy group
41. The film started shooting at the Russian Tea Room in the spring of 2018
42. She starred in a Sony remake of The Grudge, opposite Demián Bichir and John Cho. The film was released on 3 January 2020
43. Riseborough starred in the international cocaine trade drama ZeroZeroZero, an eight-part series adapted from the book by Roberto Saviano, which had its debut on Sky in the UK and Amazon Prime in the US in 2020
44. She starred in Possessor – written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg – as Tasya Vos, an agent for a secretive organization who uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies, driving them to commit assassinations for the benefit of high-paying clients
45. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020
46. In 2022, Riseborough appeared in the film To Leslie, for which she received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress
47. Dozens of celebrities praised her performance publicly and on social media, and hosted screenings during the voting period for the Academy Award nominations in January 2023
48. Her unexpected To Leslie nomination has generated some questions, with some pundits speculating that it was the result of efforts by others that violated the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences code of conduct
49. Without referring to her, the Board of Governors has pledged to investigate the overall nomination process