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Tegan Lauren-Hannah Murray (born 1 July 1989) is an
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actress. She played Cassie in '' Skins'' (2007–2008, 2013) and
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in the
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fantasy series ''
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'' (2012–2019), for which she has been nominated along with her castmates for three
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. Her film roles include the 2014 musical romance film Stuart Murdoch's ''
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'' which won her a Special Jury Prize at the
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, and 2015 drama film
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's ''
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'' for which she won the
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for
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. Between her screen roles she appeared on stage in
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's play ''
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'' in West End (2008) and in the
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play ''
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'' (2014).


Early life

Murray was born on 1 July 1989 in
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. Her parents work at
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, her father as a professor and her mother as a research technician. She earned an English degree at
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. She attended North Bristol Post 16 Centre, and was a member of the Bristol Old Vic Young Company.


Career

At the age of 17, Murray heard about an audition for young actors in Bristol, and decided to audition for the experience. The auditions were for the E4 teen drama series '' Skins''. She impressed the producers of the series and was cast as
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, a gentle and creative but self-destructive teenager with an
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. Murray and
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were the first two to be cast on the show. Murray went on to appear in the first two series, from 2007 to 2008. She left at the end of the show's second series to make way for a new generation of characters. On the decision to replace the cast, Murray has said that "it would be really silly to be in a teenage drama if you're no longer a teenager". Following ''Skins'' in May 2008, Murray made her stage debut as Mia in the critically acclaimed ''
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'', a West End production at the
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. She was highly praised for her acting in the play, and it was considered a milestone in her career. That same year, she had a small role in the black comedy ''
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'', but her scene was cut from the film. In 2009, Murray appeared in the
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adaptation of
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's novel ''
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'', playing Dorothy Savage. She also appeared in the thriller film ''
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'' (2010). Later that year, Murray starred in an adaptation of
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's ''
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''. The film premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. In early January, she appeared in the British television thriller ''Above Suspicion: the Red Dahlia'', an adaptation of Linda La Plante's novel, in a small role. On 8 August 2011,
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confirmed that Murray would portray
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in the second and third seasons of ''
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''. She was upgraded to a series regular for the fourth season. Her character is a young woman who has a baby by her own father, and becomes protected by the character
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. In 2012, she appeared in the action thriller film ''
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''. In 2013, Murray appeared in a two-episode feature, in the seventh and final series of ''Skins'', where she reprised her role as a more serious, solemn, and independent adult Cassie Ainsworth. She also starred in the music video for "Your Cover's Blown" by Belle & Sebastian. In 2014, Murray starred in ''God Help the Girl'', about three musicians in
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. The film premiered at the
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in January 2014, and Murray shared the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for the Delightful Ensemble Performance. Later that year she continued her role as Gilly in ''
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'' season 4. She also starred in the acclaimed revival of
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’s play ''
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'', playing the title role. Her performance was considered one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking of the year by the public and critics, and she was nominated for Best Female Performance at the
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. Murray starred in ''
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'' (2015), an independent American film and the first feature directed by Micael Preysler, about inseparable best friends who struggle to make the best of their last few days together, savouring the city nightlife with an enigmatic artist one of them takes a liking to. In 2015 she played Sara in the Danish film ''Bridgend'', based on the Bridgend suicides of South Wales. The film premiered at the
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, and received positive reviews. The film then had its North American premiere at the
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where it won 3 awards, including Murray for Best Actress. In 2016 Murray played
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, a young
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intellectual from
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and a confidante of Trotsky, in the film ''
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''. In 2017, Murray starred in
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's drama ''
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'', based on the
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during Detroit's 1967
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. The film was critically acclaimed. In 2018, she played the lead role of Leslie "Lulu" Van Houten, the American convicted
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er and former member of the Manson Family, in the film '' Charlie Says'' by
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. The movie premiered at the
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and was based on the books ''The Family'', by
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, and ''The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten,'' by
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.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Hannah 1989 births Living people 21st-century English actresses Actresses from Bristol Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge English film actresses English radio actresses English stage actresses English television actresses