Hattie Morahan
Born	Harriet Jane Morahan (1978-10-07)7 October 1978 (age 47) Lambeth, London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present
Partner	Blake Ritson
Children	2
Parents	Christopher Morahan (father) Anna Carteret (mother)
Relatives	Andy Morahan (half-brother)[1]

Harriet Jane Morahan (born 7 October 1978), better known asHattie Morahan, is an English actress. Her roles include Sister Clara inThe Golden Compass (2007),Gale Benson inThe Bank Job (2008), Alice inThe Bletchley Circle (2012–2014), Ann inMr. Holmes (2015), Rose Coyne inMy Mother and Other Strangers (2016),Agathe/The Enchantress inBeauty and the Beast (2017), Corinne Aldrich inLuther: The Fallen Sun, Louise inHijack, and Caroline Burkett inFool Me Once.

Morahan was born in 1978, the younger daughter of directorChristopher Morahan and actressAnna Carteret. Her older sister Rebecca is atheatre director,^[2] and her half-brotherAndy is amusic video andfilm director.^[1] As a child, she attended parties thrown by SirLaurence Olivier,^[3] who once helped her with her mathematics homework.^[4]

Morahan was educated atFrensham Heights School. She wanted to attendNewcastle University, but her father encouraged her to follow older sister Rebecca toNew Hall, Cambridge,^[5][6] from which she graduated with aBA degree inEnglish in 2000.^[7]

Morahan made her professional debut at 17, playing the leading role of Una Gwithian in a two-part BBC television adaptation ofThe Peacock Spring (1996).

Morahan joined theRoyal Shakespeare Company in 2001, making her theatre debut atStratford-upon-Avon inLove in a Wood and her London debut at theBarbican Theatre (that December) inHamlet. Other credits for the company includedNight of the Soul andPrisoner's Dilemma.

At theTricycle Theatre in March 2004 she played Ruby, a 1960s hippie who becomes a disenchanted 1980s political wife, for theOxford Stage Company revival ofPeter Flannery'sSinger.^[8] In the same year she first worked withKatie Mitchell at theNational Theatre when she starred in the title role ofEuripides'Iphigenia at Aulis.^[9]

In July 2005, she appeared again at the National inNick Dear'sPower, staged in the Cottesloe Theatre^[10] and also won acclaim at theWest Yorkshire Playhouse,Leeds, in September 2005 playing Viola in Ian Brown's production ofTwelfth Night.^[11]

In 2006, she played the leading role, of Penelope Toop, inDouglas Hodge's touring revival ofPhilip King's hit farceSee How They Run.^[12] In the same year, for her Lyttelton Theatre performance as Nina in Katie Mitchell's staging ofChekhov'sThe Seagull,^[13] she was awarded second prize in theIan Charleson Awards 2007.

TV credits includeBodies and BBC One'sOutnumbered,^[14] in which she portrays recurring character Jane. She has appeared in series 1, 2 and 4 ofOutnumbered, as well as the Christmas Specials in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2024.

In January 2008, she appeared in the filmThe Bank Job, and she played a mounted policewoman in the ITV comedy drama pilotBike Squad.

Giving a career enhancing performance, she also playedElinor Dashwood inBBC One'sthree-part adaptation, byAndrew Davies, ofJane Austen's novelSense and Sensibility, first broadcast on New Year's Day 2008.^[15] On 13 June 2008, she won Best Actress at the 14th Shanghai Television Festival for her performance.

She worked again with director Katie Mitchell, co-starring withBenedict Cumberbatch inThe City, a new, darkly comic mystery play byMartin Crimp,^[16] 24 April – 7 June 2008.^[3]

In July 2008, she returned to the National to appear in...some trace of her, Katie Mitchell's adaptation ofDostoyevsky'sThe Idiot, co-starringBen Whishaw at the Cottesloe Theatre,^[17] while later in the year she played Mary inT.S. Eliot'sThe Family Reunion at theDonmar Warehouse.^[18] She returned to the National in April 2009 to play Kay Conway inRupert Goold's production ofJ. B. Priestley'sTime and the Conways in the Lyttelton auditorium^[19] and also Dawn inCaryl Churchill'sThree More Sleepless Nights in the same season.

On 28 February 2010, she appeared as Miss Enid inLark Rise to Candleford, and then as Martina Twain in the BBC adaptation ofMartin Amis'sMoney. In the theatre, she played Annie inThe Real Thing byTom Stoppard atThe Old Vic theatre, directed by Anna Mackmin, from April to June 2010; a year later returning to the stage inThea Sharrock's pared-downSheffieldCrucible revival ofDavid Hare's 1978Plenty:Morahan affords the heady sensation of watching an actress at the top of her game (Sunday Times, Culture, 14 February 2011).

From 29 June to 26 July 2012, she played the lead role ofNora Helmer, oppositeDominic Rowan's Torvald, in a new version ofA Doll's House bySimon Stephens at London'sYoung Vic Theatre, in a production directed byCarrie Cracknell and designed byIan MacNeil. Her performance saw her named Best Actress at the 2012Evening Standard Awards and the 2012Critics' Circle Theatre Awards^[20]/ She also received a nomination for anOlivier Award for her performance.

From 8 August to 26 October 2013, Morahan reprised her role as Nora Helmer alongside Dominic Rowan, who returned as her husband Torvald, at the Duke of York's Theatre London.^[21]The production then transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY, in 2014.^[22]

In July 2015, Morahan played the role of doomed mother Elizabeth Aldridge in the BBC'stwo-part television adaptation ofSadie Jones' debut novelThe Outcast.^[23]The Guardian's Julia Raeside was impressed with Morahan's portrayal, writing, "She is so perfectly cast, the lack of her is palpable on screen. We miss her too."^[24] The following year, Morahan starred in the five-part BBC seriesMy Mother and Other Strangers.^[25]

Morahan is married^[26][27] to actorBlake Ritson. They've been in a relationship since they met at university in the late 1990s.^[28] Morahan gave birth to the couple's daughter in August 2016^[25] and to their son in 2020.

In 2025, Morahan guest starred as Lady Sarah Vere in multiple episodes of season three ofThe Gilded Age. Her husband has appeared as a main character in the show since season 1.

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