Ruth Negga

Ruth Negga Stuns In Ethereal, Sheer Gown By Valentino

... Monday: the Rising Star Award and our pick for best dressed. The Loving actress wore a floor-length, sheer gown from Valentino’s Spring 2017 collection adorned with botanical embellishments, animals and plenty of sparkles. With regard to glam, Negga sported a glowing, fresh-faced look complemented by a punchy pout. The star leaned on the Italian label for other red carpet-winning looks last fall. At the HFPA and 'In Style' celebration for the 2017 Golden Globe awards season at Catch LA on Thursday, Nov. 10 in West Hollywood, Calif. (Photo: John Salangsang, John Salangsang/Invision/AP). At the 'Loving' premiere at the Samuel L. Goldwyn Theater on Thursday, Oct. 20, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo: Chris Pizzello, Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP). At the Cartier Fifth Avenue Grand Reopening Event at the Cartier Mansion on Sept. 7 in New York City. (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris, Getty Images for Cartier). See more looks from the Monday's red carpet below. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. The jockeying for honors kicked off in earnest Monday at the 28 th annual Palm Springs ...

Oscar Nomination For Ruth Negga

... sight of her in Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto from 2005. She has had a regular role in the BBC’s Misfits. She has played Shirley Bassey , for heaven’s sake. Yet she admits to nervousness when put before journalists. “All that is daunting,” she says. “It’s nerve-racking. I want to do myself justice and I want to do the work justice. I don’t want to get in the way of what I am doing, which is speaking about something very special to me: my work. I am also very shy about public speaking. Being on stage – or on camera – and speaking in front of people as oneself are very different things.”. Negga speaks quietly, but with crystalline clarity, in a voice that still bears traces of her Limerick upbringing. You get a sense of her weighing each word’s place within each cautiously chosen clause. “I became an actor to hide. We all become actors to hide, to disappear. So, the idea of having no script is daunting.”. A mildly disconcerting concentration has now set in. Perhaps without meaning to, Negga has, within a few minutes, talked herself round to her core motivation. What is ...

Tipped For Oscars Glory

... about, says Negga, because for her, “acting is disappearing”.1. The actress has been on a US publicity tour promoting her new movie Loving. She plays Mildred Loving, one half of an average American couple whose only crime was to marry in the state of Virginia in the 1960 s, a time when marriage between black and white people was illegal. The couple found themselves exiled from their family and their home town. Forbidden love: Negga and Loving co-star Joel Edgerton Credit: Universal Pictures. Negga’s exquisitely understated performance in Loving has sparked rapturous reviews and an immediate Oscar buzz. “Negga is place-your-Oscar-bets-now tremendous in the role of a black woman quietly fighting her way to the centre of her own life story,” said Telegraph film critic Robbie Collin. The actress, 35, has been nominated for an EE Rising Star Award at this year’s Baftas, having lost out to ...

Amy Adams, Tom Hanks Mistakenly Listed As Nominees On Oscars Site

... posted inaccurate nomination information on the __link__ website," reads a statement from the network released. "The nominees announced by the Academy on Twitter were accurate. ABC quickly identified and corrected the errors. We apologize to the Academy, press and fans for any confusion.". The News wasn't alone in noticing the gaffes. A wave of Twitter users caught the blunders as well. Another named Jack Campbell took things a step further by sharing a snapshot of the Oscars website's error, writing , "#That Moment When the Official @Oscars_Live website puts Amy Adams as a nominee when they meant to put Ruth Negga.". The official Oscars website says Tom Hanks got nominated for Sully. __link__/Kl Jpn X 2 rl R. — Erin Strecker (@Erin Strecker) January 24, 2017. Adams was largely considered one of the biggest snubs for an Oscar nomination after receiving nods at both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Nominees for actress in a leading role at ...

Race Was This Subject That No One Wanted To Talk About

... tenaciousness which I have huge admiration of,” says the actress. THR cover: How interracial romance #Loving became the most relevant movie this election season __link__/rdn D 6 P 84 IL __link__/l RPHWFr 7 RG. Source: Hollywood Reporter /Twitter. Negga herself is the daughter of an Ethiopian father and Irish mother, and grew up from the age of four in Limerick. “I become very territorial about my identity because it’s been hijacked by so many people, with their own projections,” she told Vogue late last year. I’m very careful to say I’m Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don’t know any of them. Loving’s release comes in the wake of a turbulent year for race relations in the USA in particular. But it also comes as debates about identity, race, immigration and free speech play out across the world, including here in Ireland. What was it like to play Mildred Loving and be absorbed in the civil rights movement of the 1960 s, while also reflecting on racial issues today, I ask Negga. “That’s a really good question. A lot of people say it’s ...

Ruth Negga, Michael Shannon, Mel Gibson & More

... BAFTA. The bright spot for Adams? She won’t lose for a sixth time, which would have tied her with Deborah Kerr, Glenn Close and Thelma Ritter for all-time losses by an actress without a win. 2. Michael Shannon (“ Nocturnal Animals ”) for Best Supporting Actor — He was certainly a shock. We ranked him seventh with 50/1 odds after he failed to get nominations at the Golden Globes, SAG Awards and BAFTAs. Shannon’s nomination came at the expense of co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who actually won Supporting Actor at the Globes, and Hugh Grant of “Florence Foster Jenkins,” who was also nominated at the Globes, as well as Critics’ Choice, SAG and BAFTA. Oscar nominations by movie: ‘La La Land’ leads with record-tying 14 bids. 3. Mel Gibson (“ Hacksaw Ridge ”) for Best Director — After scoring directing noms at the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards, but missing out at the Directors Guild Awards and BAFTAs, many thought that Gibson’s work on “Hacksaw Ridge” would be overlooked; we ...

Get To Know Ruth Negga, The Oscar-nominated Breakout Star Of 'loving

... internationally-beloved name (Isabelle Huppert) and one fresh face — Ruth Negga. Negga's moving role as Mildred Loving, one-half of the couple that helped to legalize interracial marriage in America, earned Loving its only Oscar nomination on Tuesday. The nomination is the latest win for Negga, who broke out on TV, before stealing our hearts in Loving and catching our eye with her impeccable awards-circuit style. Get to know one of Hollywood's freshest faces ahead of the Oscars on Feb. 26, and read the full list of Oscar nominees here. She's Ethiopia born, Ireland raised and London taught. Negga was born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to an Irish mother and an Ethiopian father. When she was four, her family moved to the U. K., and Negga was raised in Limerick, Ireland, before going to London after her father died in a car accident when she was seven. "I had quite a scattered childhood," she told the Guardian. "I was Irish in London, because I had my secondary school education there. I never really fitted anywhere.". She studied acting at Trinity College in Dublin before making her ...

Oscar Nomination For Ruth Negga

... know that’s part of the process. But that doesn’t make the hurt any less. I am really not fond of people who say, ‘surely you knew that going in’. You can know something and still be upset. That doesn’t really make it any less hurtful.”. At any rate, that understated, nuanced performance in Loving has pushed her celebrity to another level. Playing a real person offers particular challenges to an actor. A balance must be struck between impersonation and creating a compelling character. Most viewers will know little about Mildred Loving. The trials are, thus, different to those faced when playing Shirley Bassey. It seems hard to credit, but, as recently as 1967, Mildred Loving and her white husband, with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union , went before the US supreme court to protest their conviction for defying Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act. They won the case and prohibitions against “inter-racial marriage” were deemed unconstitutional. “You ...