Biography
"In-plane" appearance of this actress together with brilliant talent literally fascinating the viewer observing her game. The first application for the success of Ruth Negga became the role of Charlie in the film of the Irish director Nile Jordan "Breakfast on Pluton".
Then she started her career on television, which took place in world popularity thanks to the series from the film "Marvel" "Agents Sh.I.T.". And finally, in 2016, Ruth took the first step towards the cherished statuette "Oscar", being denominated for the prize for the best female role for the work in the Laving drama.
Childhood and youth
Ruth Negg was born on January 7, 1982 in Addis Ababa. Mother Norra, Ireland by nationality, met the future her husband-Ethiopa Dr. Neggu, when he worked as a nurse in the capital. Soon the couple had a ruth daughter.
"Ethiopia is a very beautiful country. Mom, of course, was among those who fell in love with her beauty, "says the actress.
When the girl was 4 years old, the mother took her to Ireland because of the unstable political situation in the country. Father should have followed them after time, but after 3 years he died in an accident. Mother hardly survived the tragedy, married no longer came out and dedicated himself to raising her daughter.
Childhood Ruth spent in Irish Limerick together with numerous cousins. After graduating from school, she studied at the Dublin College of Trinity, in which the famous Irish playwright Samuel Beckett enlightened. Having become the owner of a diploma on acting skills, a 20-year-old girl moves to London, where the skill, conquering theatrical layouts. Among the bright theatrical works of Negga - Shakespeare Ophelia in the Royal National Theater.
The actress admits that, despite the growing up in a completely non-aggressive medium, he felt some of the early years.
"I understood that another my parents belonged to different races. Then I moved to London, where everyone was considered Irish. I have always been on the other side, but it was not bad ... just a sense of differentiation and everything, "she told the magazine" Gardian ".Films
Perhaps this is a sense of alienation and inspired it to create bright rigors. Sometimes these are strange people living in the world of their dreams, and sometimes candid marginals. After the debut in the film Capital Letters in 2004 (the role of Tivo) Ruth Negga played in the picture of the Irish director Nile Jordan "Breakfast on Plutonon", in Tandem with Killian Murphy.
Moreover, Jordan specially changed the script to introduce a role for the root, the game of which is incredibly impressed by him. The image of Charlie, a pregnant girl of the Irish terrorist, brought novice film actresses a nomination for the Irish Cinema and Teleacademic Award IFTA Award for the best female role of the second plan.
In the same year, the actress debuts in a horror genre, starring in the film "Isolation" about the terrible consequences of a genetic experiment on domestic cattle on an abandoned farm in Ireland. I continued the filmography of the Drama "Be Wall Pucked." The episode is very short, but on the playground with John Malkovich himself.
2008-2009 marked fruitful work on television. Ruth season is removed in the British detective "Criminal Justice", after which it is waiting for her main role in the Comedy "Secretaries". The series tells about the life of 6 close girlfriends, working in personal assistants from large bosses.
But the most resonant work actresses of this period became the series "Drops" (2010), presented in the mixture of the genres of drama, comedy and science fiction. In the center of the plot is a group of young offenders who are punished with public works.
Having hit the lightning, they become the most real superheroes, their possibilities are limitless. Heroine Ruth Neggie - Nikki, a girl who has become the owner of the dar of teleportation, was launched in the draft 6 seasons. And the actress itself earned a nomination for the IFTA Award.
A new project for which a talented artist is taken - a film-biography of the British singer Shirley Bassie, whose world fame brought soundtracks to the films about James Bond (Goldfinger, "Diamonds forever", "Munreker" and others). For the role of the famous Maggie's performer, the first IFTA Award reward was obtained.
In the work of the actress, the mansion is worth 2013. First of all, it is marked by a large number of projects that came out with the participation of the root. The actress marked a small role of Dr. WHO in a postpocalyptic blockbuster "War of the Worlds Z", producer and the artist of the leading role made Brad Pitt.
Also, with Pitt, Ruth works and on the site of the painting "12 years of slavery", which received 3 Oscar figurines, including for the best film of the year, as well as the British Film Academy Prize and Golden Globe. This year and success on television is marked. Negg began to be filmed in the rating American series about superhero "Agents Sh.I.T.". Heroine Ruth - the former Agent of the Hydra organization, belongs to the race "Nobuds" and is engaged in scientific experiments.
After 3 seasons in "Agents ..." Actress joins another project - "Preacher" (2016), also removed on the comics of the same name. In the center of the plot - Texas preacher Jesse Caster (Dominic Cooper), his former Passia Tuelip O'Hara (Ruth Negga) and the best friend, Vampire-Alcoholic Cassidy (Joseph Gilgan), traveling on a trip in search of God.
"My heroine is a fiery, evil creature, a real fighter, I love her. She turns over the idea of the "fatal woman" from the legs on the head. " Madly interesting to play this image, "the actress speaks about his role.
The beginning of the filming in the "preacher" coincided for the root with access to large screens of Fantasy-militant "Varcraft", where she played Lady Tarey, Queen Stormgrad. The cash project that collected in the world more than $ 4 million brought the actors incredible popularity. But in the same year, the actress is waiting for even greater success: for the role in the British-American drama "Laving" she is nominated for the Oscar.
The role of Mildered, the actress really invested more than just acting talent. In this work, her own memories of the interracial marriage of parents and personal feelings from growing up in the country, where her appearance was considered to be exotic.
The plot of the film, filmed by the director Jeff Nichols, is based on the real events that occurred in Virginia in 1958. Richard and Mildred got married, despite the legal ban on the state in relation to interracial marriages. Lovers pass through arrest, courts and prisons to win the right to be together. And only in 1967, such marriages legalized throughout America.
"People like Richard and Mildred are needed at all times. They give people the hope that everything can be changed, "Ruth Negga shares.Personal life
In 2010, Ruth Negga in the course of work on "Fedra" met the British actor Dominic Cooper, the Musicla star Mamma Mia! " and melodramas "raising feelings."
The actors met for 8 years, thoroughly hiding their personal life from others, only sometimes appearing together in film and telecoms ("Varcraft", "Preacher"). The fans were upset by learning about the parting of the pair in April 2018.
One thing consists of one - the root and Dominic went to good friends and in the summer of Milo posed the photographers at the premiere of the 3rd season of the "Preacher".
Miniature actress (height 160 cm), in addition to movies and theater, is occupied in the Fashion industry and is often removed for famous fashion houses.
Negga is not active in social networks, and fans learn about news from fan pages in "Instagram".
Ruth Negga now
In 2019, the expectation of the science fiction drama "To the Stars" with the participation of Ruth Negga is expected. The main roles in the travel movie through the solar system were played by Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones.
An important place in the work of Irish is now occupied by the theater. On September 27, 2018, the premiere of the play "Hamlet" took place on the stage of the Gate Theater's Dublin Theater, where Ruth performed a major role.
Filmography
- 2005 - "Breakfast on Pluto"
- 2005 - "Be Stanley Kubrick"
- 2008 - "Criminal Justice"
- 2009 - "Secretaries"
- 2010 - "Scrolls"
- 2011 - "Shirley"
- 2013 - "Agents Sh.I.T."
- 2013 - "12 years of slavery"
- 2015 - "Preacher"
- 2016 - "Varkaront"
- 2016 - "Laving"
- 2019 - "To the Stars"