Rebecca Hall Biography

Rebecca Hall is an English actress and director who had her breakthrough with the portrayal of Sarah Borden in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige. She professionally debuted on stage in 2002 as Vivie in her father’s production of Mrs. Warren’s Profession at the Strand Theatre in London.

Rebecca Hall Education

Hall studied at Roedean School, where she was the head girl. Also, she studied English literature at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, but dropped out in 2002, one year before her final year. During her time in Cambridge, she was involved with the student theatre scene and established her theatre company. Also, she was a member of the Marlowe Society and appeared in multiple productions with her housemate Dan Stevens, an English literature student at Emmanuel College.

Rebecca Hall Career

Hall secured her first professional role in 1992 when she was 9 years old, starring as young Sophy in her father’s TV adaptation of Mary Wesley’s The Camomile Lawn. In 2006, she had her feature film debut, where she starred as Rebecca Epstein in the film adaptation of David Nicholls’s Starter for Ten. That same year, she had her breakthrough with the portrayal of Sarah Borden in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige. The following year, she starred in Stephen Poliakoff’s Joe’s Palace and in the TV films, Wide Sargasso Sea and Rubberheart.

Hall gained wider recognition when she appeared in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona in 2008. Her performance earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. That same year, she portrayed David Frost’s girlfriend in Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. The next year saw her performing in Dorian Gray, a British fantasy-horror film based on Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

After playing a minor role in Please Give, Hall appeared in Ben Affleck’s The Town opposite Affleck and Jon Hamm. She starred as Paula Garland in Channel 4’s Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974, which won her the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in June 2010. She then starred as the female lead in The Awakening, released in September 2011.

2012 to present;

Hall played the role of Beth Raymer in Lay the Favorite in 2012. That same year, she appeared in Parade’s End with Benedict Cumberbatch, a role that earned her a nomination for a BAFTA Television Best Actress Award. The following year, she replaced Jessica Chastain as Maya Hansen in Iron Man 3 and in Closed Circuit. She co-starred with Johnny Depp in Wally Pfister’s Transcendence and appeared in Tumbledown and The Gift. She played the role of real-life TV news reporter Christine Chubbuck in the biographical drama Christine.

Hall starred as Elizabeth Holloway Marston in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women in 2017. That same year, she joined the cast of A Rainy Day in New York. She gave her salary to Time’s Up after she re-read the reports related to allegations of sexual abuse against Woody Allen. In 2018, she delivered English dubbing for the character Mother in Mirai.

Hall served as an executive producer and appeared in The Night House in 2021. The same year, she starred in Godzilla vs. Kong and made her directorial debut with the drama Passing. She wrote the screenplay and worked as the co-producer for Passing, which was primarily inspired by her own mixed-race heritage and her African-American ancestors who passed as white. She serves as a signatory of the Film Workers for Palestine boycott pledge, which was published in September 2025. In addition, she is scheduled to star in Ella McCay, Onslaught, Zero Protocol, and The Man I Love.

Stage

Hall professionally debuted on stage in 2002 as Vivie in her father’s production of Mrs. Warren’s Profession at the Strand Theatre in London. Her performance won her the Ian Charleson Award in 2003. She also appeared in two other productions by her father, as Rosalind in As You Like It and The Fight for Barbara. Her performance in As You Like It won her a second Charleson nomination.

Hall made appearances in three plays for the Peter Hall Company at the Theatre Royal Bath in 2004. Two of these plays, Man and Superman and Galileo’s Daughter, were directed by her father. Also, she played the role of Elvira in Molière’s Don Juan. The following year, she reprised the role of Rosalind in a touring production of As You Like It, which was also directed by her father. The tour took place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames, the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, and the Curran Theatre in San Francisco.

Between 2008 and 2009, Hall starred in Sam Mendes’s The Winter’s Tale as Hermione and as Varya in The Cherry Orchard. She also performed her role of Hermione in Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. From 2010 to 2011, she starred as Viola in a production of Twelfth Night at London’s National Theatre, under her father’s direction. She debuted on Broadway in 2013 in Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal, from previews on 20 December 2013, with the official opening on 16 January 2014 at the American Airlines Theatre.

Rebecca Hall Age

Hall was born Rebecca Maria Hall on May 3, 1982, in London, England. She is 43 years old as of 2025. Hall celebrates her birthday on May 3rd.

Rebecca Hall Height

Hall stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 7 inches.

Rebecca Hall Family

Hall was born to Maria Ewing and Sir Peter Hall. Maria Ewing and Sir Peter Hall started their relationship when they worked in a production of Così fan tutte at Glyndebourne in 1978. Their relationship became romantic the following year when he visited her in New York.

Maria Ewing and Sir Peter Hall married on Long Island on Valentine’s Day, 1982. However, they split in 1988 and got divorced in 1990. After their separation in 1988, he began dating Nicki Frei, a press officer at London’s National Theatre. From that relationship, he had a daughter named Emma. Even though Maria never remarried, she began a platonic relationship with Amir Hosseinpour, a Tehran-born director and choreographer, during her later years.

Maria was an American opera singer regarded as one of the most compelling singing actresses of her generation by critics. She was born on March 27, 1950, and passed away on January 9, 2022, at the age of 71. She performed solely as a lyric mezzo-soprano during her early career, later assuming full soprano parts as well. Her signature roles include Dorabella, Blanche, Carmen, Rosina, and Salome. She was born to the daughter of an African-American mixed-race father and a Dutch mother. Also, she descended from American Revolutionary War veteran, Bazabeel Norman, a free African man.

Sir Peter was born on November 22, 1930, and passed away on September 11, 2017, at the age of 86. After he was diagnosed with dementia in 2011, he retired from public life. Her father was an English stage director who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company. Before Maria, he was married to French actress Leslie Caron, with whom he had a son, Christopher, and a daughter, Jennifer. He then married Jacqueline Taylor, with whom he had a son, Edward, and a daughter.

Rebecca Hall Siblings

In total, Hall has five paternal half-siblings, including stage director Edward Hall, producer Christopher Hall, set designer Lucy Hall, as well as actresses Jennifer Caron Hall and Emma Hall.

Rebecca Hall Husband

Hall got married to Morgan Spector, an American actor, in September 2015. They met in a Broadway production. Morgan was born on October 4, 1980, and is 45 years old as of 2025. He first gained recognition for his appearances in Homeland, The Plot Against America, Christine, A Vigilante, and Boston Strangler. The couple has a daughter named Ida. Ida was born in 2018 and is 7 years old as of 2025.

Before getting married to Morgan, Hall was in a relationship with director Sam Mendes from 2011 to 2013. Sam is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. He was born on August 1, 1965, and is 60 years old as of 2025. He received the Shakespeare Prize from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he earned a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain. He also won 2 Academy Awards, 2 BAFTA Awards, and 2 Golden Globe Awards.

Rebecca Hall Net Worth

Hall has an estimated net worth ranging between $7 million, which she has earned through being an actress and director.

Rebecca Hall Ethnicity

Hall has 91% European DNA and 9% sub-Saharan African DNA, as evidenced by an Ancestry.com DNA test. She appeared as a guest on Finding Your Roots, where she learned that her maternal grandfather, Norman Isaac Ewing, performed as a Native American figure. Also, he was reported as a Sioux chief in newspapers even though he had no Native American heritage and was the son of mixed-race African-American parents. Hall’s great-grandfather, John William Ewing, was born into slavery. Following the American Civil War, he gained prominence in the black community of Washington, DC.

Rebecca Hall The Prestige

Hall had her breakthrough with the portrayal of Sarah Borden in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige. She moved from North London to Los Angeles to shoot the film, even though the film is set in London. Sarah is the wife of Alfred “The Professor” Borden, a working-class magician. They have a daughter named Olivia. Their marriage is in trouble after she started being suspicious of Borden’s secretive nature.

Rebecca Hall The Town

Hall starred as bank manager Claire Keesey in The Town in 2010. Claire is a bank manager who’s taken hostage during a bank robbery. After robbing the bank, the robbers blindfold and release her unharmed on a beach, unaware she lives in the same neighborhood. After they discover her residence, one of the robbers, Doug, surveils her and starts a relationship with her, despite the wishes of Jem, who believes they should kill her to avoid trouble. Their relationship is tested when FBI Agent Adam Frawley tells her of Doug’s criminal identity.

Rebecca Hall Iron Man 3

Hall starred as Maya Hansen in Iron Man 3 in 2013. Hansen works as a scientist and a developer of the Extremis virus. She works for Aldrich Killian, the founder and owner of Advanced Idea Mechanics, who uses the virus as a weapon.

Rebecca Hall Passing

Hall made her directorial debut with the drama Passing. She wrote the screenplay and worked as the co-producer for Passing, which was primarily inspired by her own mixed-race heritage and her African-American ancestors who passed as white. Set in 1920s New York City, Passing follows the twisted life of a black woman, Irene Redfield, and her white-passing childhood friend, Clare Bellew.

Rebecca Hall Movies and TV Show

Hall has starred in several movies and TV shows, such as

• Starter for 10
• Official Selection
• Everything Must Go
• A Bag of Hammers
• Lay the Favorite
• A Promise
• The BFG
• Joe’s Palace
• Permission
• Teen Spirit
• Holmes & Watson
• The Night House
• Parade’s End
• Godzilla vs. Kong
• With/In
• Resurrection
• Tales from the Loop
• The Listener
• The Listeners
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
• Peter Hujar’s Day