Absolutely Anna Popplewell

Films

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Role: Susan Pevensie
Released: May 16, 2008
Plot:The Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land’s throne, Prince Caspian.

 

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Role: Susan Pevensie
Released: December 9, 2005
Plot: Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.

 

Girl with a Pearl Earring
Role: Maertge
Released: January 9, 2004
Plot: A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

 

Thunderpants
Role: Denise Smash
Released: May 24, 2002
Plot: An 11-year-old boy’s amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.

 

Me Without You
Role: Young Marina
Released: November 23, 2001
Plot: Two best friends grow up on the outskirts of London in the 1970s and 1980s.

 

 

The Little Vampire
Role: Anna Sackville-Bagg
Released: October 27, 2000
Plot: A lonely boy becomes best friends with a vampire.

 

 

Mansfield Park
Role: Maertge
Released: November 19, 1999
Plot: At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt’s husband…

 

Television

Daniel Deronda
Role: Fanny Davilow
Released: November 24, 2002 on BBC
Plot: In cerca eighteenth century London, Daniel Deronda feels slightly abused by his family and feels like he needs desperatly needy to get away from it all.

 

Love in a Cold Climate
Role: Victoria
Released: February 11, 2002
Plot: Adaption of Nancy Mitford’s sarcastic panorama of English upper class life between the wars.

 

 

Dirty Tricks
Role: Rebecca
Released: September 24, 2000
Plot: Dirty Tricks stars Martin Clunes, who plays an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Although Edward can be charming and thoughtful, this camouflages an underlying calculating liar and manipulator.

 

Frenchmen’s Creek
Role: Henrietta
Released: December 20, 1998
Plot:Seeking to escape the stifling London court society, the beautiful headstrong Lady Dona St. Columb flees to her family estate on the Cornish coast…

 

Theatre

Buried Child
Role: Halie
Playing: March 3 – March 7, 2009 @ Burton Taylor Studio
Plot:Buried Child is a tragic, symbolic tale of the breakdown and disillusionment of the American Dream. Set in 1970’s America it reflects the economic stagnation and the postmodern disillusionment with American mythology. The characters once were ‘All-Americans’ as they describe themselves.

Indian Ink
Role: Flora Crewe
Playing: February 2008 @ OFS studio Theatre
Plot: Set in the 1930s, the last days of the British Raj, it tells the story of a fictional English writer called Flora Crewe who visits India when dying of tuberculosis. She encounters an English civil servant, an Indian artist and an anglophile Rajah who went to Harrow and collects vintage cars.

 

Spring Awakening
Role: Wendla
Playing: May 28 – May 31, 2008 @ Oxford Playhouse
Plot:Wendla wishes her mother would tell her the facts of life. Melchior is in love with her but are things moving too fast? Spring Awakening is a frank tale of adolescent sexual discovery – tragic, funny, bitter and sweet.

 

MacBeth
Role: Lady Macbeth
Playing: November 27 – December 1, 2007 @ OFS studio Theatre
Plot:Macbeth, cursed by insatiable ambition, capable of murder, manipulated by a heartless wife, racked with guilt and maddened by paranoia is eventually destroyed in his lustful pursuit of power.

 

Five Kinds of Silence
Role: ?
Playing: Fall 2007 @ OUDS (Oxford University Dramatic Society)
Plot: FIVE KINDS OF SILENCE carves the stunning and heartbreaking tale of a working-class family trapped within a cycle of violence – and the conspiracy of silence that surrounds them.

 

Bugsy Malone
Role: Bugsy Malone
Playing: February 28 – March 4, 2006 @ North London Collegiate School
Plot:Fat Sam engages the help of Bugsy Malone, a smooth city slicker who has been occupied in sweet talking Blousey Brown, a would be girl singer. With Bugsy’s help Fat Sam escapes from a frame up, but he later learns that Dandy Dan’s mob have splurged nearly all his gang. They’ve also destroyed his sarsaparilla and grocery rackets- his whole empire’s gone.

Other

• Co-directed the Oxford Drama A Few Good Men
• Auditioned for Hermione Granger in Harry Potter (2000), nearly got it.
• Auditioned for Wendy Darlning in Peter Pan (2003), which helped her brother Freddie get the role of Michael Darling.

Awards & Nominations

• Won – Entertainment Awards – Character and morality for Susan Pevensie in Lion, Witch, Wardrobe (2006)
• Nominated – Teen Choice Awards, Best Movie Choice Actress for Susan Pevensie in Lion, Witch, Wardrobe (2006)
• Won – Camie Awards- Best Ensemble Acting for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (2006)
• Won – Cuppers Prize – Best Supporting Actress for Five Kinds of Silence (2007)
• Nominated – UK Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards – Best Film Star for Susan Pevensie in Prince Caspian (2008)