Actor Morgan Spector with actress Rebecca Hall (Image: Getty)
British actress Rebecca Hall is currently on our screens as teacher Claire, who is suddenly troubled by a mysterious hum in The Listeners.
Adapted from Jordan Tannahill’s novel, the series follows English teacher Claire (Rebecca Hall) and her student (Ollie West), who begin to hear a low hum that appears inaudible to others.
As Claire seeks out others who can also perceive the hum, she finds herself increasingly alienated from her loved ones and stumbles upon a dubious group claiming to hear the same enigmatic sound known as “The Hum”.
The Listeners is actress Rebecca Hall’s latest project following a string of appearances in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Prestige, Iron Man 3 and acclaimed drama Red Riding.
Outside of her acting career, Rebecca Hall has a famous familyand leads a quiet life with her husband.
Early life and career of Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Hall pictured in 2012 (Image: Getty)
Born on May 3, 1982 in London, Rebecca attended private boarding and day school Roedean School and later studied English literature at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, before dropping out in 2002.
Her time in Cambridge is where she caught the acting bug in the student theatre scene and she even set up her own theatre company. She was a member of the Marlowe Society and performed in several productions alongside her housemate and Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens.
After an appearance in her father’s television adaptation of Mary Wesley’s The Camomile Lawn, Hall went on to appear as Rebecca Epstein in the film adaptation of David Nicholls’s Starter for Ten.
Hall also appeared in Christopher Nolan’s film The Prestige in the same year and starred in Stephen Poliakoff’s Joe’s Palace in the following year.
Hall has five half-siblings including stage director Edward Hall, producer Christopher Hall, actresses Jennifer Caron Hall and Emma Hall, and set designer Lucy Hall.
What are Rebecca Hall’s most famous roles?
The Listeners is Rebecca Hall’s latest project (Image: BBC)
Rebecca Hall is widely known for playing Vicky in the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona in 2008. Her performance was well-received by critics and she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Hall has also appeared in Frost/Nixon, The Town, Please Give, Marvel film Iron Man 3, Transcendence and later Godzilla vs Kong.
The British actress has also featured in many TV shows including Parade’s End alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, Tales from the Loop and most recently, The Listeners on One.
Hall won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974.
Who are Rebecca Hall’s famous parents?
Rebecca Hall with her father Sir Peter Hall (Image: Getty)
Rebecca Hall’s parents are American opera singer Maria Ewing and acclaimed theatre director Sir Peter Hall. Her parents divorced and Sir Hall married for a fourth time to Nicki Frei in 1992.
Sir Peter Hall founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960 and went on to bring Samuel Beckett’s works over to the United Kingdom and served as a director of the National Theatre between 1973 and 1988.
Described in The Times as “the most important figure in British theatre for half a century”, Sir Hall had a career spanning several decades.
Sir Hall was diagnosed with dementia and retired from public life in 2011 and died of pneumonia on September 11, 2017.
Maria Ewing enjoyed a successful opera career and sang around the world. She died of cancer at her residence near Detroit on January 9, 2022, at the age of 71.
Who is Rebecca Hall married to?
Rebecca Hall with her husband Morgan Spector (Image: Getty)
Rebecca is currently married to American actor Morgan Spector. The couple first met in 2014 after they appeared alongside each other in the stage production of Machinal.
A year later, the pair married. Their wedding was later mocked on social media after she told The Guardian about the bizarre and pretentious way she chose to celebrate her wedding day.
“One friend, artist Rob Roth, leapt out of the shrubbery dressed as a werewolf and sang, ‘If a double-decker bus / crashes into us…’”, the actress recalled. Actor Dan Stevens, called everybody out to the pond as a blood moon was rising and gave them a candle to hold.
The pair later welcomed their daughter, Ida, into the world in 2018.
Morgan is widely known for playing in The Gilded Age, as well as starring in Boston Strangler, Orange Is the New Black, The Mist and Homeland.
The pair currently live in the countryside and describe themselves as “pretty quiet people.”
Speaking about her rural life to People, she said: “I like to live pretty quietly, but I also don’t like to just do that,” says Hall. “I like to have the option to then dip into a lot of culture in the city, and we live close enough that we can do that and just go and be out and see friends and do that for a while.”
“I have my fill of that, and then I’m like, ‘Right, back into hibernation!'”
Before meeting Morgan Spector, Hall was in a relationship with James Bond and 1917 director Sam Mendes between 2011 and 2013.