British actress set to light up Tinseltown: Holliday Grainger heads to Hollywood after wowing critics with performances in BBC hit thriller The Capture
- Holliday Grainger seizes opportunity to conquer Hollywood after BBC performance
- The 34-year-old British actress will play a superhero in sci-fi blockbuster Mickey 7
- Insiders say it’s ‘just the beginning’ for the actress who caught the attention of Los Angeles producers
Holliday Grainger is seizing her chance to conquer Hollywood after acclaimed performances as a detective in the BBC surveillance thriller The Capture.
The 34-year-old British actress will play a superheroine in the sci-fi blockbuster Mickey 7.
And industry sources say it’s “just the beginning” for Holliday after she caught the eye of Los Angeles producers.
She is now being discussed in Hollywood as the “next big thing”.
Holliday Grainger, 34, is now being discussed in Hollywood as the ‘next big thing,’ insiders say
Filming for his first leading film role has begun at Warner Bros Studios near Watford, with Holliday alongside British drummer Robert Pattinson, 36.
Mickey 7, which also stars Australian actress Toni Collette, is based on a novel by Edward Ashton and tells the story of a superhero who joins a human mission to colonize a world of ice.
An insider from the movie said, “Holliday is really having fun. It’s something really different for her after The Capture. She’s been seen by the nation playing a tough detective – but now she’s off to space.
“She was somewhat excited on set and she loves being part of a movie that couldn’t have a more different genre for her.”
It is understood that the casting directors are delighted that Manchester-born Holliday is a redhead, as they are in demand across Hollywood.
Holliday, who has toddler twins with partner The Crown actor Harry Treadaway, 38, is directed in Mickey 7 by South Korean Bong Joon-ho, whose dark comedy thriller Parasite won the Oscar for best film in 2020.
Holliday Grainger seizes her chance to conquer Hollywood after acclaimed performances as a detective in BBC surveillance thriller The Capture
Just days ago, in the finale of The Capture, more than six million viewers saw Holliday DCI character Rachel Carey expose the truth about the politician played by Paapa Essiedu.
She studied English at the University of Leeds and appeared in TV series Where The Heart Is and Waterloo Road before rising to fame playing Lady Constance Chatterley in a 2015 BBC remake of Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Two years later, she landed her role in the first series of The Capture.
In 2020, it was reported that the thriller’s producers had agreed to put the second series on hold after revealing she was pregnant with twins from her partner Harry.
This series finally aired from the end of last month.
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