Rachel Hurd-Wood

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Full Name: Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood
Date of Birth:  17 August 1990
Nationality:  English
Place of Birth: Streatham, London, England
Eye Color: Blue
Gender: Female
Height:
Hair Color:  Natural Brown 
[Been Dyed red & blonde]
Occupation: Actress & model.
Known for: Peter Pan 2003

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Biography:

Rachel Hurd-Wood's career in acting started in 2002 when she was picked for the role of Wendy Darling, after her grandparents spotted a television clip that said P.J. Hogan was searching for a "young English rose" for the feature film Peter Pan.
She travelled to Gold Coast, Australia for eight months for filming.
Her performance received good reviews and was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor, and a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress.

Hurd-Wood portrayed the character Imogen Helhoughton in the 2004 TV film Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, as a 13-year-old victim of a serial killer.
Also in 2004, she had a major role of Betsy Bell in the thriller An American Haunting, as a girl who is haunted and tormented by an unrelenting demon. Her performance came in for some praise,
Hurd-Wood was nominated for the 2006 Teen Choice Awards in the category Movie – Choice Scream for her role.

In 2005 she appeared in an adaptation of the best-selling novel by German writer Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
Set in 18th century France, Hurd-Wood portrayed Laura Richis, the red-headed virgin daughter of a politically connected merchant played by Alan Rickman. She had her brunette hair dyed red. She was nominated for the "Best Supporting Actress" award at the 33rd Saturn Awards by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films for her role.

In the 2008 film Solomon Kane, she played Meredith Crowthorn, a Puritan captured by a band of marauders who killed her family and whom Kane sought to rescue. Her younger brother Patrick appears in the film as her brother Samuel.
Later in the year she acted in the film Dorian Gray based on the Oscar Wilde novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. She was in the small but key role of the young budding actress Sibyl Vane, with whom Gray falls in love with.

In her first contemporary role, Hurd-Wood was cast as Corrie Mackenzie, one of the principal characters in the 2009 Australian action-adventure film Tomorrow, When the War Began, based on the novel by John Marsden.
(The novel was one of the books she read while being tutored for the filming of Peter Pan.)
She learned an Australian accent for the role. The film became the highest grossing movie for that year in Australia.

Hurd-Wood portrayed the lead character Mae-West O'Mara in the 2010 film Hideaways, narrating a story to her six-year-old daughter, about the strange powers of the men in the Furlong family. Her performance was well-received by critics, calling her "charismatic" and "...the heart and soul of the film, the one the girls will relate to and the guys are going to love...".

Later in the year, she played the younger version of the character Isabel, played by Jenny Agutter, in the short film The Mapmaker.

She played the role of the babysitter in the 2011 teaser for a proposed feature-length film, Let's Go Play at the Adams, based on the book of the same name by Mendal Jonhson.
She next played the role of the daughter of the character Teddy, in the short film It Ends Here, directed by her friend Zimon Drake.

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