Biography
Sophie Hunter - British actress and director, director Opener "Abduction of Lucretia", "Magic Flute", "Fidelio", singer, author and performer of three solo albums, the spouse of the popular actor Benedict Cumberbet.Childhood and youth
Sophie Hunter was born in London on March 16, 1978. By the sign of the zodiac - fish. Her father became Charles Hunter, originally from the capital of Great Britain, and Mother - Anna Catherine Gow, who came to London from Edinburgh. Therefore, the child's years of the future actress and director were held in these two atmospheric cities.
From childhood Sophie seriously engaged in playing piano and vocals. But the music has become only a favorite hobby for Hunter. The girl successfully graduated from the Oxford School of Foreign Languages, where he mastered the French and Italian perfectly, after which he decided to introduce significant adjustments to fate and went to Paris.
Sophie has been interested in acting art. Therefore, the first step in the capital of France was obvious to her: she entered the theater school. Jacques leak, which to this day is considered one of the most respectable studios gesture and facial expressions.
Creation
The main passion in the creative biography of Sophie Hunter was the director. The girl owns the acting game, but the process of creating performances is interested in it much more. So, for example, in New York, the audience admired her interpretation of the Opera "Abduction of Lucretia", the author of which is famous Benjamin Britten.
Also, the talented and purposeful girl worked on the work of Mozart "Magic Flute". This opera was shown not only to the sophisticated public, but also to residents of several countries in Africa during a charity marathon called Opera Change. Israel Sophie supplied Fidelio Opera Ludwig Van Beethoven. The director is also known for the formulation of a dramatic performance on the work of Ibsen "Ghosts".
In 2007, Hunter deservedly received a Beckett Prize with his colleagues. The award was awarded for an outstanding play "The Terrific Electric": Sophie worked on the script and setting this play in the barbicical center in London. Later followed the setting of the play "Enron" in the London Theater of the Royal Court. Since 2011, Sophie organizes the theater company "Emursive".
In the New York City Theater, the hardworking director put the performances "no longer sleep," forgotten "and others. In 2015, the girl collaborated with the Olstera orchestra, working on the show "Fedra" operating in Northern Ireland. In the same year, Sophie marked work with the Aurora orchestra, which helped her in creating the opera "Screw turn" in London.
As an actress Sophie Hunter is not too popular. In the mid-2000s, the girl went on stage in the form of Ophelia in the play "Hamlet" and the sorcerer in the "Macbeth". On the screen she had episodic roles in full-length films and TV shows. With the participation of the actress, the detective drama "Murder in Midsel" was published. In 2004, Sophie played Maria Osbourne in the film "Vanity Fair", where Riz Witherspoon was shone in the lead role. At the same time, Hunter becomes a performer of an episodic role in the parody TV series of the BBC Tree TV channel "My life in the movie".
Soon, work was followed in multi-sized televisionilists. This is the role of Maureen Corbett in the film "Curse Stepot", as well as the image of Anna Bolein in the TV series "Heinrich VIII: Mind of Tirana". Actress was lit up and in the full-length tape "Burlesk Fairy Tales". Interesting was the experience of working in the scientific fiction series Torchwood, which in the plot turned out to be similar to the "Doctor Who" rating project. One of the latest appearances on the screen was the role of a witch in the TV series "Great Views".
However, the Hunter is not particularly an impressive filmography, as in creative terms theatrical and opera directs have much greater importance for it.
Sophie is fond of singing. In 2005, she recorded a solo record called "The IsisProject", which includes songs in French. In 2010, together with the Army Van Buren, the girl released the album "Virtual Friend", and in 2011 - again the solo EP plate "Songs for a Boy". The girl even had a number of clips on favorite songs.
Personal life
In 2009, a young director who is often compared by photo from Sophie Marso, played the next minor character in the film "Burlesk Fairy Tales". In her, British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the most famous for the role of detective sociopath in the series "Sherlock". At first, Benedict and Sophie just made friends and did not even think to meet: Cumberbatch was plunged into new films, and Hunter focused on her productions.
Only in 2014, when the age of both actors significantly passed over 30 years, spark ranging between them, and the history of love began. But the actors continued to hold relationships in secret, away from the camera reporters, without commenting on changes in personal life in interviews or social networks, such as "Instagram". The public first suspected something when a couple was seen at one of the matches of the French tennis championship Roland Garros.
The official post on the engagement of Cumberbet and Hunter filed the parents of the groom in the newspaper "The Times". In England, for a long time, it was customary to report in the newspaper about future weddings. Although the youth refers to this tradition skeptical, representatives of the older generation still prefer to follow it.
Wedding took place on February 14, 2015. The growth of Sophie Hunter is 173 cm, it is 10 cm less than the growth of Benedict Cumberbet. Therefore, Sophie and Benedict look spectacularly, even if the girl puts on high heels shoes.
When the lovers played a wedding, Hunter was already pregnant. In June 2015 they had the first child - the son of Christopher Carlton. After the birth, the actress did not gain weight at all (he remained at a mark of 62 kg) and a month later, the month was already posing before the cameras in an allecent dress at a party on the occasion of the Gallery of Contemporary Art Serpentine.
The birth of the firstborn did not prevent newlyweds to celebrate the first anniversary of the wedding in Venice. By this time, the husband Sophie, as she herself, decided not to be limited to one child, and in October 2016 it became known that the director was pregnant for the second time. The family waited for another replenishment on March 3, 2017 - Sophie gave the wife of the second son of Hal Derey.
Sophie Hunter now
Now the main lifetime Sophie Hunter takes care of family and children. While the spouse actresses continues to shine on the screens, Sophie moved away from participation in theatrical projects. But this state of affairs does not confuse the director, because at all solemn events it appears hand in hand with Benedict.
The birth of children did not affect the appearance of Sophie. Together with her husband, she makes up a couple that fans consider style icon. For the wardrobe, both spouses choose the style of clothing, which combines extravagance and British elegance.
Three months later, after the birth of the second child, Sophie Hunter participated as a storytellor at the Summer Puts Festival in Alsezourg, where he read the works of Ovid, John Draiden and Ted Hughes. And in early 2018, Sophie, together with his spouse, visited a gala concert organized by the Swiss home of Jaeger-Lecoultre. In Europe, the spouses went after the announcement of Benedict by the new president of the London Academy of Music and Stage Art, which Artist graduated himself in 2000.
Filmography
- 2004 - "Murders in Midsel"
- 2004 - "Vanity Fair"
- 2007 - "Request Mumbai"
- 2008 - "Curse Startow"
- 2009 - "Heinrich VIII: Mind of Tirana"
- 2009 - "Burlesk Tales"
- 2009 - Torchwood
- 2010 - "Great Views"