Name Karina Fernandez Role Actress | ||
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Movies and TV shows Similar Mike Leigh, Gary Yershon, Matthew Warchus, John Morton | ||
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Karina Fernandez is a British actress. She is best known for her performances in three of Mike Leigh's films - Another Year and Happy-Go-Lucky and Mr. Turner. Fernandez is also a teacher at City_Academy, London
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- Karina fernandez interview pride premiere
- Karina fernandez madre
- Career
- Theatre
- Television
- Film
- Voice
- Filmography
- References
Karina fernandez madre
Career
Fernandez graduated from Drama Centre London.
Theatre
Fernandez began her regular theatre work in 1997, and has since performed in several plays including Shopping and Fucking and Woody Allen's Murder Mysteries. Her Shakespearean work includes Hamlet (as Ophelia), Romeo and Juliet (as Juliet) and Macbeth (as Lady Macduff).
Television
She has appeared regularly on British television, including appearances in Twenty Twelve, My Family, The Forsyte Saga, and Married Single Other.
Film
Her first major film was the multiple award-winning Happy-Go-Lucky, directed by Mike Leigh, where she played a flamenco teacher from Seville with emotional problems. She gained praise as one of the Top 10 Best Performances of 2008 That You May Not Have Heard About.
She followed this up with a larger role in Another Year, also directed by Leigh. She has talked about her experiences working with Leigh in a Guardian video.
In 2014, she appeared in historical comedy-drama film Pride as Stella. She also appeared in 2014 as Miss Coggins in the biographical drama Mr. Turner and plays Dido's Lament by Henry Purcell to Turner's (Timothy Spall) singing.
Voice
Fernandez has narrated two audio books - The Happy Home for Broken Hearts by Rowan Coleman, and Want to Know a Secret? by Sue Moorcroft.