The country’s most reassuring smile.
Suffering from dyslexia, Sally Hawkins was a shy child who discovered acting in primary school as a means to communicate. “It was like magic,” she says. And what magic she’s given us, bringing her vulnerability, strength and effervescence to such films as Happy-Go- Lucky, Submarine, Blue Jasmine, The Shape Of Water and the Paddington movies. In her latest, Eternal Beauty, she plays a woman with schizophrenia.