Age: “Undisclosed”
Hometown: Hampton Court, “just outside of London, where Henry VIII lived. Not coincidentally, that is the name of my dog.”
Current role: Leaving no eyes dry in her Broadway debut as Laura, a 1930s housewife turned star-crossed lover, in Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Brief Encounter.
The Family Business: “There really was no hope,” Yelland says of her seemingly fated vocation. Her father, David Yelland, is a well-respected British actor and her mother teaches English and drama. “They tried really hard to get me into financial consulting,” she jokes, “but I wanted to follow the same path.” Yelland found her stage legs at Cambridge University where, after dabbling in directing, “I realized that I wanted to be an actress, straight up.” Not that she considered a successful career her birthright: “Being brought up in this business, you know that when it’s amazing, it’s amazing, but it’s not something that just happens; people work really hard to get where they are.” And work she did, until a lucky break in a low-budget London show. “I did a piece with some friends based on women’s literature. It was…fine,” she remembers with a smile. “We ...
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Brief Encounter?s Hannah Yelland on Tragic Heroines and True Love
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