Olivia Colman trivia: 60 facts about the British actress!

Olivia Colman is a British actress that finally made her jump across the pond to the USA!

1. Her full name is Sarah Caroline Olivia Colman
2. She was born in 30 January 1974
3. Olivia Colman is an English actress
4. She has received numerous accolades
5. Three British Academy Television Awards
6. Four British Independent Film Awards
7. Two Golden Globe Awards
8. Colman came to prominence for her supporting role as Sophie Chapman in the Channel 4 comedy series Peep Show (2003–2015)
9. Her other TV comedy roles include Green Wing (2004–2006), Beautiful People (2008–2009), Rev. (2010–2014) and Twenty Twelve (2011–2012)
10. She also played various roles in That Mitchell and Webb Look (2006–2008)
11. There she was alongside her Peep Show co-stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb
12. She won Best Female Comedy Performance at the BAFTA Awards for Twenty Twelve
13. And Best Supporting Actress for Accused in 2013
14. She has also a win for Best Actress in 2014 for her role as DS Ellie Miller in the ITV crime series Broadchurch
15. Colman was also nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for Broadchurch
16. For her performance in the AMC/BBC miniseries The Night Manager, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
17. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
18. On Olivia Colman’s move to film she received critical acclaim for her performance in Paddy Considine’s film Tyrannosaur (2011)
19. Other film roles include PC Doris Thatcher in Hot Fuzz (2007), Carol Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011), Queen Elizabeth in Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), Bethan Maguire in Locke (2013), Margaret Lea in The Thirteenth Tale (2013), and the Hotel Manager in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster (2015)
20. Her portrayal of Queen Anne in Lanthimos’s The Favourite (2018) received critical acclaim
21. It earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress
22. Olivia Colman was born in Norwich, Norfolk
23. She was the daughter of Mary (Leakey), a nurse
24. Her father was Keith Colman, a chartered surveyor
25. She was privately educated at Norwich High School for Girls and Gresham’s School, Holt
26. Her first role was Jean Brodie in a school production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the age of 16
27. Olivia Colman spent a term studying primary teaching at Homerton College, Cambridge
28. She then start studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from
29. She graduated in 1999
30. During her time at Cambridge, she auditioned for the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club
31. She met her future co-stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb
32. As well as Peter Serafinowicz
33. Colman met her future husband, Ed Sinclair
34. They met when he was a third-year law student who had become disillusioned with law and preferred to write
35. They met in a production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Table Manners at Footlights
36. Colman and Sinclair married in August 2001
37. They have three children together
38. Since 2013, Olivia Colman has been a judge on the panel of the Norwich Film Festival
39. In July 2018 Colman was a subject of the UK genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are?
40. Colman expected that her family tree would relate mainly to Norfolk, where her father’s family have been resident for generations
41. In the course of research undertaken into her mother’s family, however, it was discovered that one of her ancestors was Richard Bazett
42. Bazett had publicly accused his wife of adultery but had fathered two children with another woman
43. Bazett had worked in London for the East India Company
44. Bazett’s son, Olivia Colman’s great-great-great-grandfather Charles Bazett, married Harriot Slessor
45. Researchers discovered that she was born in the city of Kishanganj, in northeastern India
46. Bazett lost her British father when she was aged 3 and then made the journey to England alone
47. The episode speculated that her mother might have been a local Indian woman, but did not present concrete proof
48. After the episode aired the Berkshire Record Office published the will of Slessor’s mother, which proved that she was one Seraphina Donclere, evidently of European origin, who died in 1810
49. In 2013, Colman presented two awards at the Mind Media Awards
50. Olivia Colman believes that “the media industry has huge influence and with that comes a responsibility to contest the stigma that sadly still exists, through accurate representation.”
51. Colman has spoken openly to the Big Issue about her experience of post-natal depression after the birth of her first child
52. In 2014, Colman became the patron of the UK charity Tender, which uses theatre and the arts to educate young people about how to prevent violence and sexual abuse
53. She is a participant in the Alzheimer’s Society’s Holkham Hall Memory Walk since September 2013
54. Colman’s great-grandmother suffered from dementia
55. Her mother was involved in running a nursing home for sufferers
56. Olivia Colman has also added her voice to charity campaigns for Marie Curie Daffodil Day (care for the terminally ill)
57. And the Anthony Nolan (blood cancer), a charity which Colman says helped a friend of hers
58. In August 2014, Colman was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September 2014’s referendum on the issue
59. In December 2014, Colman was involved in a radio documentary about the plight of women in Afghanistan on behalf of Amnesty International for the BBC
60. She said, “Being a teacher, a doctor, a politician – these are important jobs but they shouldn’t be dangerous ones. The brave women whose words I’ve voiced risk so much to educate, to care and to shape the future of their country. Women like these are the hope for Afghanistan’s future and the UK must not abandon them to the Taliban now.”