Hannah New (born 13 May 1984) is an English actress. She is known for her starring role on the television show '' Black Sails'' in which she plays Eleanor Guthrie, the owner of a saloon in Nassau, and also for her role as Rosalinda Fox in ''

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Early life

New was born in Balham,

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, and is the youngest of three sisters. At the age of four, she attended a ballet school. She later joined the National Youth Theatre. Her interest in other cultures led her to visit over 20 countries including spending 3 months in a children's home in Bolivia in 2003. New studied in

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where she learned Spanish, she also studied abroad in Spain and was spotted by a talent scout in

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, and then studied a

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at the

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Career

New's career was launched by American talent manager Stacey Castro, who discovered her in Barcelona, Spain in 2009, during a search for UK casting director Susie Figgis to find the role of "Lucrezia Borgia" for the television series '' The Borgias''. In 2010, she was offered a role in television show ''

'', the adaptation of the same-titled María Dueñas novel. She played Rosalinda Fox, a young English woman who is the lover of Juan Luis Beigbeder and friend of Sira Quiroga. In 2011, she landed a lead role in "Shelter", an unaired television pilot. New featured in a Spanish movie playing alongside

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in the film Brain Dead 2 in 2011. New was managed by Castro until 2012, the year she joined the cast of the Starz TV show '' Black Sails''. She plays Eleanor Guthrie, the daughter of Richard Guthrie, a saloon owner who runs her father's illegal businesses in Nassau. The 8-episode first season premièred on 25 January 2014, and in 2014 she was filming the second season in South Africa. New featured in all four seasons of the show which was televised until 2017. As well as acting, New found time to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for the Intyatyambo Community Project charity in 2015, and also taught English to school children in

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during her time off from filming the TV series ''Black Sails''. New played Queen Leila, Princess Aurora's mother, in the

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film ''

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'', which was released on 30 May 2014. In 2014, New got a main role in the true-based thriller ''Under the Bed'', in which a young woman tries to get over a recent romantic breakup while a stalker befriends her on social media and takes up residence underneath her bed. The film was released in 2017. During 2019, New played Elizabeth Crookshank in the film '' Edge of the World'' for its 2021 release.

Filmography

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* * * * * * English film actresses English television actresses Actresses from London Living people Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama National Youth Theatre members People from Balham 21st-century English actresses 1984 births {{England-screen-actor-stub