Andrea Riseborough

**Andrea Louise Riseborougn** (born 20 November 1981) is an English actress. She portrays Judy Schneider in *Waco*.

## Biography

Riseborough can currently be seen in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Battle of the Sexes starring as “Marilyn Barnett” alongside Emma Stone and Steve Carell. The film tells the true story of the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Fox Searchlight released the film in the U.S. September 22, 2017.

Upcoming films include Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin and Andrew Heckler’s Burden. In the former, she stars as “Svetlana Stalin” alongside Rupert Friend, Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor and Jason Isaacs. The film premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The latter is based on the true story of Mike Burden, an orphan raised within the Ku Klux Klan who breaks away from the Klan when the woman he falls in love with urges him to leave. Riseborough stars alongside Garrett Hedlund and Forest Whitaker.

Riseborough will also star in an episode of the fourth season of Netflix’s criticallyacclaimed “Black Mirror.” The series will return to Netflix late 2017.

Early 2017, Andrea wrapped production on Christina Choe’s Nancy, which she also served as a producer on. She stars alongside Steve Buscemi, Ann Dowd and John Leguizamo in the film, which follows a serial imposter whose elaborate lies inevitably unravel.

In 2016, Riseborough starred as “Alessia” in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals. Focus released the film in the United States on November 23rd, 2016. In 2015, she shared with her fellow actors from Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film won four Academy Awards including Best Picture.

On television, Risborough recently starred in the Hulu four-part mini-series “National Treasure” alongside Robbie Coltrane and Julie Waters. Written by BAFTA®-winning writer Jack Thorne, the drama commissioned by Channel 4 examines the impact of sexual accusations against a much-loved public-figure. Riseborough can also be seen in Netflix’s critically-acclaimed drama “Bloodline.” Riseborough makes an unforgettable entrance in season two, which rattles the entire family. She can also be seen in Julian Jarrold’s TV movie, “The Witness for the Prosecution,” based on the Agatha Christie play of the same name.

Growing up in the U.K. seaside resort of Whitley Bay, she wrote and created her own worlds. At the age of nine, her drama teacher recommended her for an audition at the People’s Theatre (home of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Newcastle), and she appeared in her first public production there.

Whilst still attending the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts (RADA), she began taking external acting roles in telefilms and theatre productions. After leaving RADA, she starred the Oppenheimer Award-winning play A Brief History of Helen of Troy at the Soho Theatre, directed by Gordon Anderson, and was nominated as Best Newcomer at the 2005 Theatre Goers’ Choice Awards. Ms. Riseborough’s first feature film role was in Roger Michell’s Venus (2006), starring her good friend Jodie Whittaker and Peter O’Toole.

She starred for six months at the National Theatre, in Deborah Gearing’s Burn, Enda Walsh’s Chatroom and Mark Ravenhill’s Citizenship, all directed by Anna Mackmin. She was honored with the Ian Charleson Award for her performance in Peter Hall’s Royal Shakespeare Company staging of Measure for Measure.

Ms. Riseborough embarked on her first lead role in a television series with “Party Animals,” alongside Matt Smith, Raquel Cassidy and Andrew Buchan.

Mike Leigh offered her a place in the company of his film Happy-Go-Lucky. She made the movie and then starred at the Royal Court Theatre in Bruce Norris’ The Pain and the Itch, for which she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress at the 2007 Theatre Goers’ Choice Awards.

Ms. Riseborough then starred as Margaret Thatcher in the telefilm Margaret Thatcher – The Long Walk to Finchley, directed by Niall McCormick, for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination; starred in the short film Love You More, directed by Sam TaylorJohnson and written by Patrick Marber; starred in Avie Luthra’s independent feature Mad Sad & Bad; and played the lead role in the miniseries The Devil’s Whore, about the 17thCentury English Civil War, directed by Marc Munden.

On stage, she starred in Dorota Maslowska’s A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, at The Soho Theatre; and in the Donmar Warehouse production of Ivanov, opposite Kenneth Branagh and Tom Hiddleston. She made her U.S. stage debut in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride, directed by Joe Mantello.

Among her feature films are Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go; Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham; Rowan Joffe’s Brighton Rock; Madonna’s W.E., as Wallis Simpson; Amit Gupta’s Resistance; Henry Alex Rubin’s Disconnect; Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion, opposite Tom Cruise; Eran Creevy’s Welcome to the Punch; Corinna McFarlane’s The Silent Storm; the Duffer Brothers’ Hidden and James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer, opposite Clive Owen, for which Ms. Riseborough won the British Independent Film Award (BIFA), the Evening Standard British Film Award, and the London Critics’ Circle Film Award for Best Actress.