Antonia Campbell-Hughes is an actress, writer, director and former fashion designer from Northern Ireland. She is best known for playing

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and the titular role in Cordelia. She first gained notability as a fashion designer while in her teens. After an early career in comedy, she moved on to more serious acting roles, alongside writing for the screen. Her debut feature film as director, the thriller

It Is In Us All ''It Is In Us All'' is a 2022 Irish thriller film written and directed by Antonia Campbell-Hughes. The film stars Cosmo Jarvis, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Rhys Mannion, Keith McErlean, Claes Bang and Mark O'Halloran. The film premiered at SXSW o ...

, was released in 2022.

Early life

Campbell-Hughes was born in

Derry Derry, officially Londonderry (), is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The name ''Derry'' is an anglicisation of the Old Irish name (modern Irish: ) meaning 'oak grove'. The ...

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, living there until the age of two. Until the age of 16 she would move between the

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

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, and

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. After experimenting with short film, she went to art school in Dublin, and during that time, as a teenager, she started her own fashion label. Her clothing line would sell internationally under her own name, and a diffusion line for high street store

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Television

Her first role was in

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,'' which ran for four series, where she played his daughter. Her early career was mostly in comedy, with roles in a variety of comedy shows on British television, alongside

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and

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, in

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and

Stephen Mangan Stephen James Mangan (born 16 May 1968) is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He has played Guy Secretan in ''Green Wing'', Dan Moody in '' I'm Alan Partridge'', Seán Lincoln in ''Episodes'', Bigwig in ''Watership Down'', Postma ...

's early series Free Agents, among others. In 2009, she created her own show, ''Bluebell Welch'', for MTV, where she played an overzealous, obsessive MTV presenter. Alongside her comedy projects, she performed smaller, serious roles in popular UK TV series such as ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Blackbeard: Terror at Sea'' and '' Spooks.'' She was co-lead in an episode of

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's anthology series Coming Up. Alongside a film career, she took on occasional TV roles, in series such as ''

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,''

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and

London Spy ''London Spy'' is a British-American five-part drama television serial created and written by Tom Rob Smith that aired on BBC Two from 9 November until 7 December 2015. It was aired on Netflix in 2018. Plot ''London Spy'' begins as the story ...

. In 2016 she was a series regular on

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. She played Marie Antoniette in the 2022 STARZ series adaption of

Film career

Her first notable film role was in the

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feature film '' Bright Star'', and her first starring role was the 2011 indie drama

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. This was followed by the lead role in the 2012 film Kelly + Victor, which won the

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that year. The following year she played

. Natascha, an Austrian, was abducted at age 10, and held captive for 8 years, escaping in 2006, a case that made headlines worldwide. Other notable roles followed in movies like

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, The Canal and Never Grow Old. She co-starred in the 2022

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production The Other Me, written and directed by

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Giga Agladze. In 2022 she released her directorial debut

, which she wrote, where she also plays a supporting role. The movie, a thriller, won the Extraordinary Cinematic Vision award at the

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and was nominated for the SXSW Grand Jury Award, Narrative Feature. It was nominated for a pair of

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and was selected for a number of festivals.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards

Shooting Stars Award The Shooting Stars Awards are presented annually by the pan-European network organization European Film Promotion (EFP) to emerging actors from Europe. "Shooting Stars" is an initiative of the EFP for the international promotion and networking of p ...

2012: Antonia received this award at the 62nd

Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...

in February 2012, annual acting award for up-and-coming actors by

European Film Promotion European Film Promotion (EFP) is an international promotion organisation and a unique network of 38 national film promotion institutes who represent films and talent from their respective territories. Under the EFP flag, the members team up on ini ...

.European Film Promotion unveils 2012 Shooting Stars longlist
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References

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