Imogen Gay Poots is an English actress. She is best known for playing Tammy in the post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film 28 Weeks Later and Julia in the American action movie Need For Speed.
British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominations
British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer
Movies
Need for Speed, That Awkward Moment, Green Room, She's Funny That Way, A Long Way Down, Filth, Fright Night, 28 Weeks Later, Knight of Cups, Frank & Lola, Jimi: All Is by My Side, A Late Quartet, Solitary Man, A Country Called Home, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Jane Eyre, V for Vendetta, Gree...
TV Shows
Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Star Sign
Gemini
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Trademark
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Striking blue eyes
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Quote
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[About her name, Poots] In Europe it's OK, in America, it's game over.
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It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects. If a role has been too one-dimensional I have turned it down. I still try to be a feminist in some tiny way. There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive.
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[on her Bouquet of Barbed Wire (2010) character] The role as a whole was very intriguing, especially as a part for a young girl. There was a lot to do and a lot that happened to Prue. And I think teenage years are a really incredible time to focus on because you're really changing as a person.
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I was about 14 when I started with a theater group, it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff. So it was really there that I started to really love it and enjoy it.
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I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.
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Fact
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Her father is Northern Irish, originally from Belfast. Her mother has English and Scottish ancestry (one of Imogen's maternal great-grandfathers was Scottish).
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Named one of the "most desirable" women for 2013 in Askmen's list of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women.
$2 Million
